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HSBC, RBS and Barclays plan to close 400 branches
April 7th, 2016
Three of Britain’s largest banks are planning to close about 400 branches this year, according to people familiar with the situation, a new programme of closures that could leave thousands of customers without easy access to a bank. The ...
Catalytic Finance Initiative Brings Together Banks and Investors, Directs $8 Billion in Capital for High-Impact Sustainable Projects
April 6th, 2016
AllianceBernstein, Babson Capital Management, Bank of America, Crédit Agricole CIB, European Investment Bank, HSBC, International Finance Corporation, Mirova and the Aligned Intermediary to Fund Clean Energy Solutions A consortium of leading financial institutions and investors today announced a new partnership ...
RBI:India Cuts Rates,First Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2016-17
April 5th, 2016
Part A: Monetary Policy Monetary and Liquidity Measures On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation, it has been decided to: reduce the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 ...
GTX launches high-speed binary market data protocols on its FX ECN
April 5th, 2016
GTX, the institutional foreign exchange trading arm of GAIN Capital Holdings Inc., announced today it has launched live market data binary protocols free of charge to clients of its ECN trading platform. GTX developed the binary protocols to meet requests ...
Nasdaq readies ‘Ocean’ dark pool for banks and brokerages
April 4th, 2016
Nasdaq Inc is in negotiations with several brokers to host and run their private stock trading venues, or dark pools, within its data center, two of the exchange operator’s executives said on Thursday. There are nearly 40 of the ...
PwC awarded a $890,000 contract
April 4th, 2016
A national system to certify the skill levels of human resource (HR) professionals is expected to be piloted from July and launched a year later. The Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) has awarded an $890,000 contract to consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers ...
Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin
April 4th, 2016
A network of secret offshore deals and vast loans worth $2bn has laid a trail to Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. An unprecedented leak of documents shows how this money has made members of Putin’s close circle fabulously wealthy. Though the ...
FRC to publish HBOS findings in the Spring
March 31st, 2016
Britain’s accounting watchdog aims to publish a full report in coming weeks into how banking group HBOS was audited by KPMG before the lender collapsed in 2008 during the financial crisis. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has come ...
Shell faces corruption probe over $1bn oil deal in Nigeria
March 31st, 2016
Italian officials to investigate company’s role in acquisition of disputed oil block jointly owned with energy group Eni Italian anti-corruption investigators have opened a formal investigation into Shell’s acquisition of a stake in a $1.09bn (£755m) oil block in Nigeria. ...
Ex-Goldman Sachs Banker Bansal Gets Probation Over Fed Leak
March 23rd, 2016
Bansal pleaded guilty to getting documents from friend at Fed Prosecutors had sought a sentence of as long as a year An ex-Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who got a former colleague to steal documents from the Federal Reserve ...
