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Asian stocks climb amid Fed rate wait, but China lags
September 17th, 2015
Asian stocks advanced on Thursday, as investors eyed gains in oil prices and the positive lead from Wall Street. However, trade volumes could stay light as investors await the Federal Reserve‘s policy decision. The Fed’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) ...
The Next Financial Crisis Won’t be Like the Last One
September 16th, 2015
It seems increasingly likely the next Global Financial Meltdown will arise in the FX/currency markets. Central banks are like generals: they tend to fight the last war. The Great Financial meltdown of 2008 was centered in too big to fail, too ...
Thomson Reuters: Interview with Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB
September 16th, 2015
Interview with Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB, conducted by Paul Ingrassia, Balazs Koranyi and John O’Donnell on 14 September Is quantitative easing working? It is working and effective in many ways. The ultimate metric to assess success is the ...
Rabobank Adopts Bloomberg Tool to Monitor Its Liquidity Buffer
September 16th, 2015
Bloomberg’s HQLA Solution Helps Rabobank Meet Basel III Requirements Bloomberg announced today that Rabobank, one of the world’s safest banks according to Global Finance magazine, is the latest to adopt Bloomberg’s High-Quality Liquid Assets (HQLA) solution to monitor its liquidity ...
Saxo Bank uses Interoute’s advanced network to support its multi-asset trading platform
September 16th, 2015
Award winning trading platform updates currency prices 10 times every second and manages 11 billion dollars of transactions daily. Interoute, owner-operator of one of Europe’s largest networks and a global cloud services platform, has announced that Saxo Bank, a specialist ...
SCA Forces Electronic Connection with CBUAE on Brokerage Companies
September 16th, 2015
The Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) forced UAE-based securities and commodities brokerage companies to work on activating electronic connection with the Anti-Money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit of the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE). The purpose of this move ...
Blockchain expert Tim Swanson talks about R3 partnership of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS, Barclays et al
September 16th, 2015
Nine of the world’s biggest banks from both sides of the Atlantic and Asia Pacific have agreed to join a partnership to divine a set of common standards and practices towards constructing a shared digital ledger system for financial ...
RBS in 84.4 million pound mortgage securities deal with U.S. regulator
September 16th, 2015
Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC has agreed to pay 88.4 million pounds to resolve claims by a U.S. regulator that it sold toxic mortgage-backed securities to now-failed credit unions, according to a court filing on Tuesday. The National ...
ESMA raises its market risk indicator to highest level
September 15th, 2015
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today its Trends, Risks and Vulnerabilities Report No. 2 for 2015 on European Union (EU) securities markets, covering market developments from January to June 2015. It has also published its Risk Dashboard No. ...
Barclays hunts for new recruits with gamified trading platform
September 15th, 2015
Barclays is to test the skills of budding traders with the opening of a virtual investment platform from US-based gamified recruitment startup Stockfuse. Stockfuse was one of the startups to win a place on Barclays’ fintech accelerator programme ...