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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 ...
Citadel has just hired a top trader of Morgan Stanley’s electronic trading
April 4th, 2016
Ken Griffin’s Citadel has hired a top trader from Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley’s global head of rates electronic trading, Nicola White, is joining Citadel Securities as global COO for fixed income, currencies and commodities, the firm has confirmed. “She has a ...
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 ...
Euronext completes Interbolsa migration to Pan-European securities settlement platform TARGET2-Securities
March 31st, 2016
Euronext announces that the Portuguese Central Securities Depository Interbolsa, a subsidiary of Euronext Lisbon, has successfully completed the migration to TARGET2-Securities (T2S), one of the largest infrastructure projects launched by the European Central Bank – Eurosystem so far, which ...
Robert Kiyosaki And Harry Dent Warn That Financial Armageddon Is Imminent
March 31st, 2016
Financial experts Robert Kiyosaki and Harry Dent are both warning that the next major economic crash is in our very near future. Dent is projecting that the Dow will fall to “5,500 to 6,000 by late 2017″, and Kiyosaki ...
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. ...
Iranian Miniskirts, Bags of Cash Raise Doubts Over Controls at HSBC
March 30th, 2016
Monitor finds lapses in bank’s efforts to prevent money laundering and evasion of sanctions following 2012 settlement with Justice Department The monitor overseeing HSBC’s compliance with a landmark anti-money-laundering settlement has uncovered a range of potential lapses including loans ...
Elliott Wave Analysis On GBPUSD And GOLD
March 30th, 2016
GBPUSD On GBPUSD price has turned sharply up which looks more like an impulse rather than correction. That said, we are looking higher now, but we need to be aware of pullbacks. Based on latest substructure we see price ...
How Many Tech Startups Are Empty Shells?
March 30th, 2016
How many startups are empty shells filled with glitzy PR designed to appeal to VC newbies? It’s widely accepted that most tech startups will fail. Perhaps the core business proposition didn’t pan out, or the execution was flawed, or ...
