First Derivatives partners FTT on integrated service for FX brokers
January 26th, 2015
First Derivatives (AIM:FDP.L, ESM:FDP.I) announces a partnership with Fair Trading Technology to provide an integrated solution for retail brokers. The combined service leverages the back-end capabilities of FD’s Delta Flow platform, such as connectivity to liquidity sources, aggregation, price ...
CFTC Issues Order of Registration for Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad
January 23rd, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced today that is has issued an Order of Registration to Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad (BMD), a Foreign Board of Trade located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Under the Order, BMD is permitted to provide ...
Canadian Securities Regulators propose derivatives reporting rules
January 22nd, 2015
The securities regulatory authorities in Alberta, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan (participating jurisdictions) today published for comment Proposed Multilateral Instruments 91-101 Derivatives: Product Determination and 96-101 Trade Repositories and Derivatives Data Reporting. Together, these proposed instruments would form ...
The Currency Exchange Selects Quantifi for Counterparty Credit Risk Management for Emerging Market Currencies Derivatives
January 14th, 2015
Quantifi delivers sophisticated analytics for emerging market interest rates and FX derivatives Advanced models generate fast, accurate results Quantifi, a specialist provider of analytics, trading and Risk Management solutions, today announced that The Currency Exchange (TCX) has selected Quantifi ...
Gregor Horvat
January 13th, 2015
Grega is based in Slovenia and has been involved in markets since 2003. He is the owner of www.ew-forecast.com, but before that he was working for Capital Forex Group and TheLFB.com. His feature articles have been published on: FXstreet.com, ...
Swiss Government Rejects Proposal To Replace VAT
January 9th, 2015
The Swiss Government announced on January 7, 2014, that it had again rejected a popular initiative, “energy instead of VAT,” that would have replaced the nation’s value-added tax (VAT) with an emissions-based levy. The initiative was last rejected in ...
HMRC: “transitional period” for businesses affected by new EU VAT laws
January 7th, 2015
HMRC has announced that there will be a “transitional period” for small businesses affected by new VAT rules. The new Europe wide legislation, which came into force on 1 January 2015, affects businesses that sell digital services, such as ...
Vatican Bank Joins 100 Nations In FATCA Offshore Account Hunt
December 29th, 2014
In his annual Christmas messages to more than one billion Catholics, the Pope may have left out something: offshore account compliance. Maybe, but the U.S. Treasury is more than happy to fill in the blanks. Just before Christmas, the ...
Fed issued final rule to ensure the treatment of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, eligible margin loans, and repo-style transactions
December 17th, 2014
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today issued an interim final rule to ensure that the treatment of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, eligible margin loans, and repo-style transactions under ...
UK Lawyers and US Lawyers in the market of private equity
December 16th, 2014
UK firms are in battle with their US counterparts to win more private equity and related work – and a report suggests ways that the UK lawyers could make greater advances. A report by Fox Rodney Search into the ...
