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Axioma Names Jacqueline Gaillard as Managing Director, People & Talent
March 28th, 2017
Axioma, a leading provider of enterprise market risk and portfolio management solutions, today announced the appointment of Jacqueline Gaillard as Managing Director, People & Talent. Gaillard was previously Senior Vice President, Human Resources and Talent Management at International Securities ...
CFPB fines credit reporting agency for deceiving consumers
March 24th, 2017
CFPB Fines Experian $3 Million for Deceiving Consumers in Marketing Credit Scores Credit Reporting Company Misstated How Credit Scores It Sold Were Used The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action against Experian and its subsidiaries for deceiving consumers ...
UBS to face trial in France over tax fraud charges
March 21st, 2017
Swiss banking giant UBS will go on trial in France for establishing a wide-ranging tax fraud scheme worth billions of euros, according to legal sources. UBS will be charged with illegal banking practices and dissimulating tax fraud, the sources ...
Global Brokerage Inc. releases Q4 2016 results and informs on financing arrangements with Leucadia
March 21st, 2017
U.S. GAAP net revenues from continuing operations of $80.6 million U.S. GAAP net income attributable to Global Brokerage, Inc. from continuing operations of $10.7 million or $1.91 per diluted share, including a $6.4 million gain on derivative liability U.S. ...
Mergers faced greater scrutiny in 2016, magic circle firm reports
March 16th, 2017
Magic circle firm Clifford Chance has said it is becoming increasingly difficult to push through mergers in concentrated markets where there are few big players, particularly in the EU. The firm said that jurisdictions, including the EU, are claiming ...
Brickington has agreed to sell 13.0 million Playtech shares
March 15th, 2017
Playtech plc (“Playtech”) announces it has been notified by Brickington Trading Limited (“Brickington”) that following a direct and unsolicited inbound enquiry to Brickington by Boussard & Gavaudan Investment Management LLP (“Boussard & Gavaudan”), Brickington has agreed to sell 13.0 ...
Hedge funds extend ag selling – and ‘scope for more sales’ in grains
March 14th, 2017
Hedge funds cut their net long position in agricultural commodities for a third week, but not by enough, in grains, to fend off fears of a further selldown, with latest bearish positioning focused on sugar instead. Managed money, a ...
Global brokerage BGC Partners pays $90,000 penalty
February 23rd, 2017
BGC Partners (Australia) Pty Limited (“BGC”) has paid a total penalty of $90,000 to comply with an infringement notice given to it by the Markets Disciplinary Panel (“MDP”). The MDP had reasonable grounds to believe that BGC had contravened subsection 798H(1) ...
EU Commission to take legal action against U.S. plans for border tax
February 15th, 2017
The European Commission says it is prepared to take legal action against US plans to impose a border tax. “If somebody is behaving against our interests or against international rules in trade then we have our own mechanisms to ...
Price controls and propaganda
February 5th, 2017
Most economists agree on one thing; price controls do not work. Many go on to say they create shortages of goods, which inevitably drives black market prices even higher than they would otherwise be. Price controls were last tried ...
