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Events – Conferences – Seminars
February 26th, 2015
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Bats Global Markets Names Chris Concannon CEO; Joe Ratterman Becomes Chairman
February 25th, 2015
BATS Global Markets (BATS), a leading operator of U.S. and European markets, today announced that President Chris Concannon will be appointed to the additional role of chief executive officer, effective March 31, 2015. Mr. Concannon arrived at BATS as ...
Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB
February 24th, 2015
On 18 February 2015, the Governing Council approved the public account of its monetary policy meeting of 21 and 22 January 2015. The first edition of this new communication product, which is aimed at enhancing the transparency of Governing ...
Citi Announces $100 Billion, 10-Year Commitment to Finance Sustainable Growth
February 18th, 2015
Citi announced today a landmark commitment to lend, invest and facilitate a total of $100 billion within the next 10 years to finance activities that reduce the impacts of climate change and create environmental solutions that benefit people and ...
Federal Reserve Issues “Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System”
January 27th, 2015
The Federal Reserve today issued “Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System,” which presents a multi-faceted plan for collaborating with payment system stakeholders including large and small businesses, emerging payments firms, card networks, payment processors, consumers and financial institutions ...
Bitcoin finds a place among the world’s elite
January 22nd, 2015
More famous for being a renegade alternative to a world currency, bitcoin has managed to find a more prominent role among the global elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The Alpine resort plays host to a slew ...
SNB president defends shock move: reaction ‘overdone’
January 19th, 2015
Reaction to the Swiss National Bank’s (SNB) scrapping of its cap on the value of the Swiss franc has been overdone, the bank’s president Thomas Jordan has said in a newspaper interview. “We see significant excesses in current exchange ...
The first stage in the washing cycle – Placement (video)
January 19th, 2015
Placement Placement is the first stage of the money laundering process. It is the process of placing, through deposits or other means, unlawful cash proceeds into traditional financial institutions. At this stage cash derived from criminal activity is infused ...
Chinese Official: Bitcoin Can ‘Co-exist’ with Fiat Currencies
December 16th, 2014
A former vice-governor of China’s central bank, Wu Xiaoling, has said that digital currencies like bitcoin “could co-exist with fiat currencies”. Wu, who is currently a member of National People’s Congress Standing Committee and a vice-chairperson of the Financial ...
BITCOIN NEWS IN REVIEW: MASTERCARD, MINING DIFFICULTY, SILK ROAD, AND MORE
December 9th, 2014
“For Everything Else, There’s Bitcoin” This week, payments company MasterCard argued for tighter regulations against bitcoin in Australia. According to MasterCard, “Any regulation adopted in Australia should address the anonymity that digital currency provides to each party in a ...
