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Plus500 says accounts may unlock today after temporary ban sent share price plunging
May 20th, 2015
ODEY Asset Management has lifted its stake in beleaguered spread-betting firm Plus500 to 14 per cent, as the forex trading website says it will begin to unlock frozen UK accounts as early as today. The Israel-based tech firm was ...
Bitcoin verification co Spondoolies raises $1.5m
May 19th, 2015
BTCS’s investment in Spondoolies-Tech follows last month’s announcement that it will merge with the Israeli company. Israeli start-up Spondoolies-Tech Ltd. has raised $1.5 million from Bitcoin Shop Inc. (BTCS) a block-chain technology company engaged in bitcoin verification services. Based in Kiryat ...
ICAP’s EBS eFix Matching meets FX market’s need for auditable electronic fix execution
May 18th, 2015
ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, reports today on the progress of its eFix Matching solution one year after launch. The result of a collaboration between EBS, ICAP’s ...
Playtech seals deal for online trading platform AvaTrade
May 14th, 2015
Israeli billionaire Teddy Sagi’s Playtech, a provider of online gaming and sports-betting software, has bought currency trading platform AvaTrade, a source with knowledge of the deal said on Wednesday. The purchase exercises an option held a month ago when ...
Financing IMF Transactions Quarterly Report
May 13th, 2015
IMF credit is extended to its members in both foreign exchange and SDRs. Credit extended in foreign exchange is financed from the quota resources made available to the IMF by members, and essentially involves a transfer of foreign exchange ...
Tripartite summit to discuss regional issues, oil and gas
April 29th, 2015
The heads of state of Cyprus, Greece and Egypt hold talks on the island on Wednesday, followed by a tripartite summit and the signing of the ‘Nicosia Declaration’, a document expanding and building on the ‘Cairo Declaration’ concluded among ...
OECD Taxing Wages 2015 Report
April 14th, 2015
Taxes on wages have risen by about one percent for the average worker in OECD countries between 2010 and 2014, even though the majority of governments did not increase statutory income tax rates, according to the Organisation for Economic ...
First US law firm to be licensed as ABS in UK
April 13th, 2015
The US firm has made its first UK hire and is going down the alternative business structure route. US law fim Cahill Gordon & Reindel has become the first US firm to be licensed as an Alternative Business Structure ...
Russian Central Bank plans to move away from international ratings to Russian ones
April 8th, 2015
The Central Bank of Russia is going to gradually move away from international ratings to Russian ones, Chairperson Elvira Nabiullina at the Russian Bank Association conference. “We are thinking about gradually moving away from international ratings and developing our ...
Playtech forays into FX trading market with $224 million buy
April 2nd, 2015
Gambling technology company Playtech (PTEC.L) is set to enter the forex trading market after agreeing a deal to buy a majority stake in TradeFX for 208 million euros ($224 million). Playtech provides software used in sports betting and online ...
