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European Stocks, Chinese Stocks And Commodities Are All Crashing – Are U.S. Stocks Next?
July 8th, 2015
A global stock market crash has begun. European stocks are crashing, Chinese stocks are crashing, and commodities are crashing. And guess what? All of those things happened before U.S. stocks crashed in the fall of 2008 too. In so many ways, it seems like we ...
China Bans Stock Sales by Major Shareholders for Six Months
July 8th, 2015
China’s securities regulator banned major shareholders, corporate executives and directors from selling stakes in listed companies for six months, its latest effort to stop the nation’s $3.5 trillion stock-market rout. Investors with stakes exceeding 5 percent must maintain their ...
Leading Global Banks, Service Providers and Market Infrastructures Create New Hub for End-to-End Margin Processing
July 8th, 2015
Goal is to facilitate compliance with new margin regulations for non-cleared derivatives effective in 2016 Thirteen major global banks, ICAP plc and market infrastructures The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Euroclear have joined forces with AcadiaSoft, Inc. ...
Citigroup: Here’s Our Five-Step Plan to Solve the Greek Crisis
July 8th, 2015
For six years the Greek crisis has unfolded in a predictable pattern: Greece needs money. Euro area leaders don’t want to give it to them without imposing tough conditions. Brinkmanship ensues, followed by some sort of ineffectual compromise. And repeat. According ...
China Freezes Trading in 1,300 Companies, Locking Up 40% of Market Cap
July 8th, 2015
A wave of Chinese companies halted trading in their shares and regulators unveiled new measures to prop up the value of small-cap stocks in the latest attempts to stem a rout that’s wiped more than $3.5 trillion of value. ...
Bitcoin: What you didn’t know but always wanted to ask
July 7th, 2015
A new technology for the banking world: “The internet of money” In 2008, an individual or group writing under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper that described a peer-to-peer version of electronic cash that “would allow online ...
Fighting money laundering in the back office
July 7th, 2015
Back Office Workforce Optimisation solutions are key to solving regulatory issues within the financial services sector Organisations are on high alert for signs of money laundering. Alerts raised in the field or by detection systems need to be investigated ...
FSMA Warnings: Providers of binary options and forex products
July 7th, 2015
The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) once again warns the public against the activities of various providers of / intermediaries in binary options and/or forex products which engage in unauthorized activities in Belgium. Some of these providers are, ...
New York Stock Exchange Remains Global Leader in Capital Raising in First Half of 2015;
July 7th, 2015
The New York Stock Exchange, part of the Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) global network of exchanges, remained the leading exchange globally for capital raising in the first half of 2015, with 264 transactions raising a total of $94 billion, more than ...
Rift Emerges as Europe Gears Up for New Talks on Greece Bailout
July 7th, 2015
Germany continued to maintain a hard line with Athens on Monday, just a day after Greek voters decisively rejected a bailout deal from its creditors. But some European countries showed a willingness to soften the push for austerity that ...
