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EU says time for Greek ‘happy ending’
June 11th, 2015
EU Commissioner Pierre Moscovici has said a Greek debt deal is close but needs a “happy ending”, as Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras pushes for an agreement in Brussels. After a late-night meeting with French and German leaders, Mr ...
Saxo Payments to fulfill cross-border transactions for First Data clients
June 10th, 2015
Saxo Payments, the global transactions services provider, is collaborating with First Data, the global leader in payment technology and services solutions to reduce the costs – and improve the speed – of global transactions carried out by First Data’s ...
SIX Swiss Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange step up their collaboration
June 9th, 2015
SIX Swiss Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange have agreed in a memorandum of understanding to step up their collaboration. A delegation from China is visiting the Swiss stock exchange today, where the two parties will sign the document in ...
What Would Happen If Mainstream Investors Discovered Gold?
June 8th, 2015
China, India and Russia are accumulating a lot of gold, but they’re virtually alone. Traditional money managers, for a variety of reasons, view the metal as neither a viable investment (because it doesn’t pay interest) nor a substitute for ...
Volante Technologies signs strategic partnership with Access to Arabia
June 8th, 2015
Designed to address the migration of Jordanian payments to new ISO 20022-based message standards Volante Technologies, a global leader in the provision of financial message and data integration, validation and processing software, today announced a strategic partnership with Access ...
Google, Facebook at Center of EU Clash Over Cyber-Attack Law
June 8th, 2015
Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. are caught in the middle of a clash between European Union lawmakers on whether the U.S. technology giants should be covered by rules forcing companies to report cyber attacks to government agencies in the ...
Japan’s revised Q1 growth blows past expectations
June 8th, 2015
Japan posted stronger-than-expected growth in the first quarter as a pickup in capital spending drove the world’s number three economy, but some economists warn that the recovery could be short-lived. The 1.0% expansion in January-March—or 3.9% on annualised basis—was ...
Asian shares slip, China’s imports disappoint
June 8th, 2015
An index of Asian shares extended losses on Monday after Chinese imports declined more than expected, while the dollar was higher after upbeat U.S. employment data raised bets that the U.S. central bank would raise interest rates as early ...
ICAP Said to Consider Circuit Breakers for Treasury Bond Trading
June 5th, 2015
ICAP Plc, which runs one of the world’s biggest electronic Treasury trading platforms, is considering circuit breakers as a safeguard against extreme volatility, according to a person familiar with the matter. ICAP has discussed with clients the possibility of ...
IMF Urges Fed to Wait on Interest Rates Until 2016
June 5th, 2015
The International Monetary Fund on Thursday slashed its forecasts for U.S. economic growth, calling for the Federal Reserve to hold off its first rate increase in nearly a decade until 2016. In its annual review of the U.S. economy, ...