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KYC: ‘Increased Guidance’ From Regulators Will Help Treasury
October 14th, 2015
During the opening session of the compliance forum at Sibos 2015, regulators discussed the intense scrutiny being placed on banks to crack down on money laundering and terrorist financing. That scrutiny has been passed along to banks’ corporate clients, ...
The Eurozone Crisis: Crystalizing the Narrative
October 13th, 2015
The economy of the eurozone makes the US economy look like a picture of robust health by comparison. Richard Baldwin and Francesco Giavazzi have edited The Eurozone CrisisA Consensus View of the Causesand a Few Possible Solutions, a VoxEU.org book ...
KPMG hiring people with experience of implementing blockchains such as Ripple
October 13th, 2015
Big Four professional services firm KPMG is hiring people with experience of working with distributed ledger offerings such as Ripple, in order to help clients select and implement the right technology. David Montes, a managing director in the Financial ...
Talk Is Cheap for Euro as QE’s Diminishing Returns Thwart Draghi
October 13th, 2015
ECB chief reiterates willingness to ease, yet currency gains Debatable whether more stimulus can weaken euro: Investec Traders are losing their faith in Mario Draghi’s ability to weaken the euro. The European Central Bank president has reiterated at least four ...
Volante Technologies launches VolPay Hub
October 12th, 2015
VolPay Hub is a highly scalable, high performance, configurable, next generation payments hub. VolPay Hub is channel and payment type agnostic and designed to dramatically reduce time to revenue for digital payment processing by centralizing and accelerating the integration ...
What will Happen to Bitcoin when the Economy goes Bust?
October 12th, 2015
Many people interested in Bitcoin have a less than optimistic view about the health of the global economy. This skepticism — in some cases pessimism — is fueled by a controversial business cycle theory that is fairly popular in ...
Euro Area Urges Tsipras to Meet Bailout Pledges Without Delay
October 6th, 2015
Funds for recapitalization tied to country meeting conditions Finance ministers tell Tsipras not to ease up on reforms Greece shouldn’t expect the euro area to relax bailout requirements to meet next month’s deadline for unlocking money to recapitalize its ...
EBS BrokerTec acquires Molten Markets
October 5th, 2015
Acquisition completes EBS’s offering for all customer segments EBS BrokerTec, ICAP‘s market-leading electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, announces today that it has acquired Molten Markets Inc., a foreign exchange technology provider for asset managers and pension ...
ECB: Results of the Euro Money Market Survey 2015
September 30th, 2015
Overall money market turnover in the second quarter of 2015 fell to the level of the same quarter of 2012, with a year-on-year decline of 12% to €69 trillion (compared with a revised 7% year-on-year rise in the second ...
Is Bitcoin here to stay? Experts are still torn
September 24th, 2015
The digital currency has been called everything from a fad to the next big thing. Will Bitcoin go away? That’s the question that digital currency experts debated Monday at a conference in San Francisco hosted by tech news site ...
