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Scandal-hit Toshiba tries to draw line in sand with £207m loss
September 8th, 2015
The accounting scandal, which broke in July, has wiped more than a third off the company’s value The electronics and industrial giant Toshiba faces a huge uphill struggle to repair its tattered corporate reputation as it reported a much-delayed ...
G20-Germany urges more Islamic finance integration globally
September 7th, 2015
Islamic finance is increasingly important in the global economy and needs to be better integrated into the international financial system, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told a meeting of the Group of 20 leading economies on Saturday. Islamic finance, ...
Putin says dump the dollar (Video)
September 4th, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin has drafted a bill that aims to eliminate the US dollar and the euro from trade between CIS countries. This means the creation of a single financial market between Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan ...
The Current Global Financial Crisis
September 3rd, 2015
During the last month global markets has been roiled by the financial crisis that emanated from China, but propagated to other parts of the world. To put things into perspective, during the month of August more than $5 trillion ...
Global Value Chains and Rethinking Production and Trade
September 2nd, 2015
Back in the 1920s and 1930s, manufacturing often meant enormous factories that tried to bring as many activities as possible under one roof–what economists call “vertical integration.” However, the trend in recent decades has been toward “global value chains,” ...
First Regulated Yen-Swap Trade Executed on Tradeweb ETP
September 2nd, 2015
Tradeweb Granted ETP Licence by Japan’s Financial Services Agency Tradeweb Markets, the leading global marketplace for electronic fixed income, derivatives and ETF trading, announced that its new regulated marketplace for trading interest rate swaps in Japan today saw its ...
ANZ signs AU$450 million, five-year strategic partnership with IBM
September 2nd, 2015
Leading edge technology to help ANZ be the best connected and respected bank across Asia Pacific ANZ, one of Australia and New Zealand’s leading banks, has signed a five-year, AU$450 million strategic agreement with IBM (NYSE: IBM). This partnership will ...
Extreme volatility rocks China stocks
September 2nd, 2015
China stocks swung wildly on Wednesday as investors grappled with the market’s latest episode of extreme volatility. The benchmark Shanghai Composite shed 4.2% at the opening bell, only to recover and lurch into positive territory by mid-day. The smaller ...
European stocks suffer as China outlook continues to worsen
September 1st, 2015
More than £30bn was wiped off FTSE 100-listed stocks this morning, after new economic data from China reduced hopes of a recovery from last week’s market turmoil. The FTSE dipped below 6,100 points in mid-morning trading, 2.4 per cent ...
Global 100 firms expand in Europe as Hill Dickinson hires a captain
September 1st, 2015
Last week saw Global 100 firms building their presence in Europe, with White & Case bolstering its private equity (PE) practice and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton expanding its competition offering in Brussels. Meanwhile Hill Dickinson hired two partners for its ...
