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Shell to launch its own offshore legal centre
May 31st, 2016
In the latest twist to the offshoring saga, and following news last week that two global 100 firms are to outsource to Poland and Manila, Royal Dutch Shell is preparing to open its own offshore legal centre to service ...
Global financial solutions provider GoSwiff appoints new CEO
May 31st, 2016
GoSwiff International, a global financial solutions provider headquartered in Singapore, announced today the appointment of Mark Patrick as their new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Patrick is an accomplished leader, with a track record of managing global, high-growth fintech businesses. ...
Majority of UK law firms will invest in new tech in next two years
May 30th, 2016
A new survey of UK law firms by AIM-listed managed IT services provider Redcentric shows that 74% plan to invest in new technologies to help address business challenges over the next two years, with almost half of these (36%) ...
Alternative Payments Launches Innovative Global Payment Gateway
May 26th, 2016
The global e-commerce company AlternativePayments.com has launched a new international payments solution. This solution is the ultimate e-commerce equalizer for web retailers looking to tap into the global marketplace by eliminating payment and currency worries. “Our goal at the end of the day ...
A computerized trading firm beat Banks in the rankings of the world’s biggest spot currency traders
May 26th, 2016
XTX is the first electronic specialist to break into top five Deutsche Bank was the biggest currency trader until 2014 Computerized trading firm XTX Markets Ltd. has come from nowhere to dethrone major banks including Deutsche Bank AG in the ...
Marks & Spencer is going downmarket to try and rescue its clothing business
May 25th, 2016
Marks & Spencer put out another bad set of results on Wednesday— something that has become a tradition for the struggling retailer. Annual sales at M&S were up 2.4% to £10.4 billion ($15.2 billion) but pre-tax profit collapsed by 19.5% ...
What is Bitcoin?
May 24th, 2016
The open source, peer-to-peer digital currency is far removed from traditional banking – so what exactly is bitcoin and how do you use it? Bitcoin is a type of digital asset, most commonly defined as a virtual, digital or ...
Google announced it would ban payday-loan ads from its site
May 23rd, 2016
Google announced this month it would ban payday-loan ads. One wrinkle: It is an investor in a payday lender. GV, the venture-capital investment arm of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., has been investing in online lender LendUp since before the startup launched ...
Compliance professionals struggling with explosion of communications channels – Smarsh
May 20th, 2016
Smarsh, the leading provider of hosted archiving solutions for compliance and e-discovery, today released its sixth annual Electronic Communications Compliance Survey Report. The results of the survey of compliance professionals in the financial services industry highlight that supervision practices ...
Asia emerged as the next big opportunity in fintech
May 20th, 2016
Asia’s emerged as a key market for financial technology players, as the continent’s large population and limited banking network lures billions in funding. Investors poured $4.5 billion into fintech companies in Asia in 2015, three times the amount attracted ...
