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IG Group obtains License for Swiss Banking Business
October 6th, 2014
IG Group Holdings Plc, the U.K. spread-betting firm, is set to start operations in Geneva, close to the private banks it hopes to win as customers. The London-based company chose Geneva partly because many institutional customers it wants to ...
Banks pull out of dozens of benchmarks after rate-rigging scandals
October 2nd, 2014
Some of the world’s largest banks have stopped contributing to dozens of financial benchmarks to avoid further litigation risk in the wake of the Libor and foreign exchange rate rigging scandals. Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, JPMorgan and UBS, among others, ...
Currency trader of Deutsche Bank was dismissed for irregularities
September 22nd, 2014
A Deutsche Bank AG (DBK) currency trader was dismissed earlier this year after internal checks uncovered irregularities around how he recorded trades, the bank said. Andy Donaldson was suspended in June and dismissed shortly after, Sydney-based Adrian Cox, a ...
China Central Bank to Inject $81 Billion Into Top Lenders
September 17th, 2014
China became on Wednesday the latest country to embrace economic stimulus measures, as its central bank reportedly agreed to lend 100 billion renminbi apiece, or $16.2 billion, to each of the country’s five main banks. The decision to inject ...
Biggest Banks Said to Overhaul FX Trading After Scandals
September 16th, 2014
The world’s biggest banks are overhauling how they trade currencies to regain the trust of customers and preempt regulators’ efforts to force changes on an industry tarnished by allegations of manipulation. Banks have capped what employees can charge for ...
European Bank Assets Recover in First Half
September 12th, 2014
Europe’s big banks returned to growth mode in the first half of this year, expanding their books by 530 million euros ($685 million), in a sign they are starting to get back on their feet after the financial crisis. ...
BRICS, banking on development
September 11th, 2014
The creation of the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) to finance infrastructure and sustainable development projects in emerging economies is a landmark achievement. Developing nations have lost faith in the current system with its strict conditions on development finance ...
World’s leading economies warned over ‘global jobs crisis’
September 10th, 2014
The world’s largest economies are still failing to create enough jobs and too many of those that are being produced are too low quality to generate a meaningful boost to global growth, three leading international institutions warned on Tuesday. ...
Banks are puzzled over how to stop rate fixing
September 10th, 2014
Banks and regulators have still not found a way to be sure of stopping traders from manipulating Libor, foreign exchange and other benchmarks, top watchdog Martin Wheatley said yesterday. More than two years on from the first bank fine ...
Wall St middle-aged bankers stuck in squeezed middle
September 9th, 2014
It is Wall Street’s “squeezed middle”: a large cohort of bankers in their thirties and forties are fretting that promotions to their banks’ top tier are becoming harder to secure. Many of them accept that being stuck on a ...
