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BGC Partners Completes Full Merger with GFI Group
January 13th, 2016
Public Shareholders to Receive $6.10 per GFI Share in Cash BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) (“BGC Partners,” “BGC,” or the “Company,”) a leading global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets, today announced that it has completed ...
Deloitte predicts technology trends for 2016
January 13th, 2016
Mobile touch commerce usage to increase by 150 percent globally, to 50 million in 2016 18 to 24 year-olds will be the biggest PC users this year The technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) practice at Deloitte, the business advisory ...
Barclays partners with SWIFT to enhance service quality for corporate clients
January 13th, 2016
Barclays selects SWIFT India to reduce complexity and risk for its corporate clients SWIFT India announced today that Barclays has selected it as a channel for payments, cash management, trade finance and treasury transactions for their corporate customers. Eleven ...
2016: year of corporate tax reform and fiscal transparency, Moscovici tells MEPs
January 13th, 2016
2016 should be the year of corporate tax reform and fiscal transparency, tax Commissioner Pierre Moscovici told MEPs from the Special Committee on Tax Rulings and the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee at a hearing on Monday evening. “We ...
IASB shines light on leases by bringing them onto the balance sheet
January 13th, 2016
The International Accounting Standards Board® (the Board) today issued a new accounting Standard, called IFRS 16 Leases. It replaces accounting requirements introduced more than 30 years ago that are no longer considered fit for purpose and is a major revision of ...
CMC Markets to apply for admission on LSE in February 2016
January 13th, 2016
London Stock Exchange announces the Intention of CMC Markets PLC to float on LSE. According to LSE: CMC Markets plc (“CMC” and, together with its subsidiaries, the “Group”), a leading global provider of online financial trading, today announces its ...
Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into acquisition of oilfield service provider Baker Hughes by Halliburton
January 13th, 2016
The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess whether the proposed acquisition of oilfield service supplier Baker Hughes by rival Halliburton would impede effective competition in breach of the EU Merger Regulation. Both companies are US-based. Commissioner ...
When OPEC cuts output, oil prices will begin to climb
January 13th, 2016
While the consensus view is the the oil price will go even lower yet, once production is reduced it will start rising again. There’s a very good reason why the price of oil keeps falling – there’s no real need to buy it. ...
The China Syndrome: The Coming Global Financial Meltdown
January 12th, 2016
All the phantom wealth piled up in China’s boost phase is now melting down, and the China Syndrome will trigger a meltdown in global phantom assets. The 1979 film The China Syndrome took its name from the darkly humorous ...
Bear Market: The Average U.S. Stock Is Already Down More Than 20 Percent
January 12th, 2016
The stock market is in far worse shape than we are being told. As you will see in this article, the average U.S. stock is already down more than 20 percent from the peak of the market. But of ...
