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Growing financial risk appetite within a gradual economic recovery – Financial Stability Review
May 28th, 2015
Euro area systemic stress remained low in past six months amid improving, but still subdued, economic growth Financial markets show continued asset price rises and bouts of volatility, but without generalised overvaluations Challenging operating environment for euro area banks ...
Citi keeps top spot in FX trading as European banks slump: poll
May 27th, 2015
European banks Deutsche Bank, Barclays and UBS have seen their market share in foreign exchange trading slump in the past year, as U.S. banks led by Citigroup (C.N) grabbed business, according to widely watched industry rankings. Citigroup kept its ...
Oil Bears Miss Out as Record U.S. Refinery Demand Drives Rally
May 25th, 2015
Oil speculators missed out as record demand from U.S. refineries helped trim supplies from their highest level in more than eight decades and drive prices higher. Hedge funds and other money managers reduced their net-long position in West Texas ...
ICAP e-Commerce launches US Agency Securities matching engine
May 25th, 2015
ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, announced that ICAP Global Broking’s e-Commerce, the hybrid execution business of ICAP, has launched an US Agency Securities matching engine powered by ...
eXtremeDB Financial Edition DBMS Powers Innovation in TradeStation’s Next-Gen Order Execution System
May 21st, 2015
With rollout approaching for its order execution system incorporating the eXtremeDB® Financial Edition database management system (DBMS), TradeStation is finding that the specialized DBMS for financial systems from McObject® delivers the expected performance boost – and that eliminating data management latency makes ...
Bitcoin: A Remarkable Innovation and Its Limitations
May 20th, 2015
My own sense is that popular interest in Bitcoin peaked about 12-18 months ago. Perhaps that interest will return. But for now, my sense is that Bitcoin represents a remarkable–indeed, a breakthrough–innovation which nonetheless is beginning to show its limitations. Rainer ...
Big Law Firms Winning More of Intellectual Property Work
May 20th, 2015
As disputes over patents, copyrights, trademarks and trade secrets have grown, the nation’s biggest law firms have wrested away much of the lucrative intellectual property litigation work from smaller boutique firms. Last year, the 50 largest firms had 61 ...
Sarao Loses Bail Appeal as Judge Says He Is a ‘Flight Risk’
May 20th, 2015
Navinder Singh Sarao lost a bid to secure bail while he fights extradition to the U.S. on market-manipulation charges as a judge said the 36-year-old trader was a clear flight risk. Judge Ross Cranston refused to remove or reduce ...
CRYEX to establish crypto currency exchange and clearinghouse using turnkey solutions from Cinnober
May 19th, 2015
A new start-up in digital currency, CRYEX, has made its entrance on the financial stage. The company announced recently that it has filed an application with the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen) to become one of the world’s first regulated ...
Oil price to reach $80 by 2017 – Iranian oil minister
May 19th, 2015
Iran hopes its crude oil exports will be back to the pre-sanctions level of 2.5 million barrels per day (bpd) and the oil price to rise to around $80 a barrel by end of 2016, according to Iran’s Deputy ...
