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The Common Reporting Standard: Automatic Information Exchange Goes Global
October 16th, 2015
Automatic exchange of information for tax law enforcement purposes started first in Europe with the EU Savings Tax Directive, went international with the US Foreign Accounts Tax Compliance Act, and, from 2017, will go global with the recently-agreed Common ...
$580 million for the acquisition of Independent Broker-Dealer
October 15th, 2015
HD Vest Announces Agreement to be Acquired by Blucora, Inc. Leading Independent Broker-Dealer Enters Next Phase of Evolution as Stand-Alone Firm within FastGrowing, Publicly Traded Holding Company Focused on Technology-Enabled Financial Services Blucora, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive ...
BofA Profit Rebounds to $4.51 Billion as Revenue Beats Estimates
October 14th, 2015
Revenue declines 2.4 percent while expenses fall 31 percent Bond-trading revenue slides 11 percent, equities up 12 percent Bank of America Corp., the second-biggest U.S. lender, posted third-quarter profit of $4.51 billion as litigation expenses tumbled and loan growth ...
UBS to Pay $19.5 Million Settlement Involving Notes Linked to Forex trading strategy
October 14th, 2015
Case Is Agency’s First Against an Issuer of Retail Structured Notes The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that UBS AG has agreed to pay $19.5 million to settle charges that it made false or misleading statements and omissions ...
Six people arrested in BoB forex fraud case
October 14th, 2015
Bank’s branch head, forex ops chief among those held Six persons, including Bank of Baroda’s branch head at Ashok Vihar, New Delhi, and an HDFC Bank employee, were arrested on Tuesday in connection with trade-based mechanism to launder money ...
FXCM Reports Monthly Metrics
October 14th, 2015
FXCM Inc. (NYSE:FXCM) announced certain key customer trading metrics for September 2015 for its retail and institutional foreign exchange business. Monthly activities included: September 2015 Customer Trading Metrics from Continuing Operations (1) Retail Customer Trading Metrics Retail customer trading volume(2) of $326 billion in September 2015, 1% ...
Biometrics payment startup Zwipe raises $5m to accelerate global growth
October 14th, 2015
Biometrics pioneer zwipe raises $5m from high-tech innovation group kuang-chi to accelerate global growth Zwipe, which launched the world’s first fingerprint authenticated payment card on 17 October last year, today announced that it has raised $5 million in equity ...
Worldpay floats in Biggest London IPO so far in 2015
October 13th, 2015
Worldpay has been valued at GBP4.80 billion in its initial public offering, making the payments processor the biggest company to come to market in London so far in 2015. Worldpay’s value by market capitalisation was based on an offer ...
CME permanently bans 3 traders for spoofing
October 13th, 2015
CME Group Inc has permanently banned three traders who admitted to violations including the manipulative strategy known as spoofing, according to disciplinary notices issued on Monday. A permanent ban is a severe punishment that CME, which owns the New ...
Citi dials down risky block trading amid market turmoil
October 13th, 2015
Over the summer, as the U.S. stock market wobbled and then plunged 4 percent in a day, Citigroup made a tough choice: to dial down risk-taking in the bank’s capital markets group. Phil Drury and Doug Adams, then co-heads ...
