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YELLEN: The Fed is in no rush to raise rates
March 30th, 2016
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen reiterated on Tuesday that interest rates would rise slowly. Yellen was speaking at the Economic Club of New York. In her prepared remarkspublished before the speech Tuesday, Yellen said raising rates with caution was “especially ...
While global response to BEPS is cautious, Europe is increasingly leading the drive toward implementation
March 29th, 2016
Despite recent moves to formalize global tax reform, many jurisdictions are in fact reducing corporate income tax burden and rates While Europe leads BEPS implementation, most jurisdictions are yet to respond 69% cite new transparency requirements as key implementation ...
Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan team up for US$818m CMBS deal
March 29th, 2016
Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan have teamed up for the first time since the crisis to underwrite a conduit commercial mortgage bond by themselves, according to investors and syndicate sources. The US$818m deal includes only loans made by Deutsche ...
Barclays Warns Commodities May Slump on a `Rush for the Exits’
March 29th, 2016
Oil may drop to low $30s a barrel in selloff, Norrish writes Raw materials `vulnerable to a wave of investor liquidation’ Commodities including oil and copper are at risk of steep declines as recent advances aren’t fully grounded in ...
On suspending 12-month FX repo auctions
March 29th, 2016
The Bank of Russia decided to suspend, effective 1 April 2016, 12-month FX repo auctions, considering the lack of demand for these facilities from Russian credit institutions and its’ shift to 28-day FX repos. The Bank of Russia will continue to set the parameters for auctions to provide foreign currency on a reverse basis, ...
Cyprus begins new round of gas exploration
March 28th, 2016
Cyprus on Thursday launched a third licensing round for offshore oil and gas drilling off the Mediterranean island’s southern coast. “The decision to launch this licensing round was based on the huge interest by international companies to carry out ...
IBM blockchain leader Jerry Cuomo using ‘shadowchains’ to launch moonshots
March 28th, 2016
IBM has been building momentum behind blockchain by championing the Linux Foundation’s Hyperleder Project and creating its own Open Blockchain (OBC) among other things. IBM’s vice president of blockchain Jerry Cuomo, who recently gave testimony before US Congress about ...
US Treasury rules FBME ‘still a money laundering concern’
March 28th, 2016
The US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued a final ruling imposing prohibition on the opening or maintaining of correspondent accounts for, or on behalf of, FBME Bank Ltd, the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) announced on ...
Innovation in legal services is a win/win for the economy, law firms and the users of legal services
March 28th, 2016
Greater innovation in the legal services market is important for UK PLC, law firms and the users of legal services. The successful SRA Innovate conference on Tuesday, at London’s Altitude 360, brought together more than 100 original thinkers from ...
How was the business activity in Eurozone the first three months of 2016
March 24th, 2016
Euro zone businesses end first quarter on brighter note March flash euro zone composite PMI 53.7 * Composite PMI above all forecasts in Reuters poll * Firms cut prices again this month * German surveys show sentiment improved in ...