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Online payment services make big IPO waves this year; Global IPO rankings in 2018
September 11th, 2018
The over $5 billion initial public offering in Hong Kong of Xiaomi, the world’s No. 4 smartphone maker, may have made the biggest splash in the global initial public offering market in the first half of the year, but ...
Oil prices rose as U.S. drilling for new production stalled
September 10th, 2018
Oil prices rose on Monday as U.S. drilling for new production stalled and as the market eyed tighter conditions once Washington’s sanctions against Iran’s crude exports kick in from November. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were at ...
Bitcoin dropped sharply falling $500 in just over an hour; Other cryptos fell even more sharply
September 6th, 2018
Cryptocurrency prices plunged across the board suddenly and sharply Wednesday morning, seemingly with no clear reason. Having been steady at about $7,350 a coin during most of trading during both Asian and European morning hours, bitcoin lost more than ...
UK Banks advocate Brexit deal on financial services
August 23rd, 2018
Several UK financial services enterprises have urged the government to strike a deal with the EU allowing British banks, insurers, and wealth managers to do business on the continent free of any possible restrictions. Kristian Rouz — The British ...
Currency Woes
August 17th, 2018
This week’s collapse of the Turkish lira has dominated the headlines, and it is widely reported that this and other emerging market currencies are in trouble because of the withdrawal of dollar liquidity. There are huge quantities of ...
cTrader Recognized with an Award for Following ISO 27001:2013
August 14th, 2018
Spotware, an award-winning trading technology provider, has recently attended the Annual Quality Assurance Conference, where cTrader, Spoware’s trading platform, has received the award for its outstanding implementation of ISO 27001:2013 for the Information Security Management System it employs. cTrader ...
The Turkish lira and the Euro to dollar fell; Emerging market currencies tumble
August 13th, 2018
Emerging market currencies tumble; U.S. futures trade lower; Turkish lira extends drop despite limits to swaps transactions. Stocks declined in Asia alongside the euro and emerging-market currencies, while Treasuries and the yen advanced, on continued turmoil in Turkey that’s ...
KPMG Report on Fintech: Global investment in Fintech is going gangbusters
August 9th, 2018
KPMG has published their Pulse of Fintech report highlighting global Fintech activity for the first half of 2018. According to KPMG, global investment in Fintech is going gangbusters as “Fintech market activity worldwide gained momentum during the first half ...
Macroeconomics Has Lost Its Way
August 3rd, 2018
The father of modern macroeconomics was Keynes. Before Keynes there were macro considerations, which were firmly grounded in human action, the personal preferences and choices exercised by individuals in the context of their own earnings and profits. In ...
Apple Pay and other mobile payments will count for 1 in 3 in-store transactions by 2020
August 3rd, 2018
The future of shopping transactions may look a lot like Apple Pay. In-store contactless payments are predicted to reach $2 trillion by 2020, making up one-third of total transactions, according to a Monday Juniper Research report. Contactless payments will ...