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Credit Suisse faces tough questions after $1 billion write-downs
April 5th, 2016
On Jan. 19, Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) Chief Executive Tidjane Thiam contacted the head of the Swiss bank’s markets business asking for more details about the fourth-quarter results at the trading division, according to materials seen by Reuters. Two-and-a-half months ...
IMF warns that an economic crisis in China could cause global recession again
April 5th, 2016
An economic crisis in China could result in a world-wide recession, warned the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This was because China’s financial links with the rest of the global economy was set to increase, the organisation said ahead of ...
R3 banking blockchain consortium partners with Microsoft Azure
April 5th, 2016
The R3 distributed ledger consortium of 40-plus global banks has chosen Microsoft Azure cloud to host its labs and provide its members with easy access to those firms already added to Azure’s Blockchain as a Service platform. R3 named ...
A tale of two currencies
April 5th, 2016
There is a widespread and growing feeling that financial markets are slipping towards another crisis of some sort. In this article I argue that we are in the eye of a financial storm, that it will blow again from ...
RBI:India Cuts Rates,First Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2016-17
April 5th, 2016
Part A: Monetary Policy Monetary and Liquidity Measures On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation, it has been decided to: reduce the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 ...
UBS, HSBC Offshore Dealings Thrust Into Panama Papers Spotlight
April 5th, 2016
Report describes UBS’s dealings with law firm Mossack Fonseca Both banks say they comply with laws for vetting customers UBS Group AG and HSBC Holdings Plc — two of the banks hardest hit amid a U.S. crackdown on customers’ illicit ...
CME Group Appoints Paul Houston as Global Head of FX
April 4th, 2016
CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced the appointment of Paul Houston as Executive Director, Global Head of FX. Reporting to Sean Tully, Senior Managing Director, Financial and OTC Products, CME Group, Houston will be responsible for ...
Biggest Ever Saudi Overhaul Targets $100 Billion of Revenue
April 4th, 2016
Levies on expats, energy, luxury goods, sugary drinks seen Plan is to boost non-oil revenue to balance budget by 2020 The biggest economic shake-up since the founding of Saudi Arabia would accelerate subsidy cuts and impose more levies, a ...
Deutsche Bank just lost its prime position in a prominent investment banking league table
April 4th, 2016
Deutsche Bank is suffering — it lost £5.1 billion ($7.4 billion) in 2015, shares tumbled, it is cutting thousands of jobs to shore up costs, and some of its key businesses continue to suffer. So it comes as no surprise that ...
Citadel has just hired a top trader of Morgan Stanley’s electronic trading
April 4th, 2016
Ken Griffin’s Citadel has hired a top trader from Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley’s global head of rates electronic trading, Nicola White, is joining Citadel Securities as global COO for fixed income, currencies and commodities, the firm has confirmed. “She has a ...
