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Bitcoin exchange Quoine raises $20m venture investment
June 21st, 2016
Quoine, a Singapore-based Bitcoin exchange, has closed a $20 million funding round, leveraging off the large opportunity for Bitcoin in the Japanese market, led by venture capitalists (VCs) and other ‘strategic investors’. It’s last funding round was a $2 million ...
Tickmill informs about GBP, EUR and UK100 Margin requirements change ahead of Brexit
June 17th, 2016
Tickmill has issued an announcement to inform regarding that the uncertainty surrounding the upcoming EU Referendum in the UK (Brexit) on June 23, 2016 has the potential to generate increased volatility and turbulence in the financial markets. The referendum will take ...
Brexit is getting the blame
June 17th, 2016
Brexit is not the most important problem facing markets, it is mounting problems in the European banks. But before looking at that systemic issue, I will summarise the Brexit position, from the trenches, in the last few days before ...
How the Migrant Crisis has Changed Europe, in 1 Map
June 16th, 2016
A new Pew Research Center analysis shows that refugees have drastically hiked the shares of immigrants in various countries. Over a million people sought asylum in Europe between July 2015 and May 2016. In large part, these were migrants pouring ...
The Impact of “Brexit” on Retail Investors; Monex survey
June 16th, 2016
Twenty-first Monex Global Retail Investor Survey Survey Focusing on the Impact of “Brexit” on Retail Investors Monex, Inc. has published “The Twenty-first Monex Global Retail Survey(*)” that was conducted from May 25 to June 6, 2016. Below is a ...
Mobile payments: The new future of commerce
June 16th, 2016
We look at how the mobile commerce space is advancing and why this often overlooked part of the brand engagement process is important for marketers to focus back on Many sales and marketing campaigns would be pointless if they ...
How far UK pound is expected to crash after a Brexit: Goldman Sachs
June 16th, 2016
Brexit could trigger a huge sell-off in the pound, sending the currency down by as much as 11% against a basket of the world’s most important currencies, according to new research from Goldman Sachs released late on Wednesday. Goldman ...
The Law firms that advised on Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn
June 14th, 2016
On June 13, 2016, Microsoft and LinkedIn Corporation, the world’s largest professional network with more than 433 million members in 200 countries and territories around the globe, announced a definitive agreement for Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for approximately $26.2 ...
INTL FCStone Ltd.’s Global Payments Division reports increase in cross-border payments
June 14th, 2016
Facilitated ~101,000 payments in CY Q1 2016; an increase of ~14% vs. CY Q1 2015 Signed 500th institutional client in CY Q2 2016 Transferred more than $22 billion in payments in CY 2015; on track to increase in 2016 INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
BP announces latest gas discovery in Egypt’s East Mediterranean
June 13th, 2016
BP Egypt announced today another important gas discovery in the Baltim South Development Lease in the East Nile Delta. The Baltim SW-1 exploration well, drilled in water depth of 25 metres by operator IEOC (Eni), reached a total depth ...
