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European banks stashing billions in tax havens
March 27th, 2017
Europe’s largest banks are draining public coffers by stashing billions of profits offshore. A 52-page report, by international aid agency Oxfam out on Monday (27 March), estimates €25 billion of banker money ended up in tax havens in 2015. ...
Euronext launches a new thematic Index
March 24th, 2017
Euronext and Vigeo Eiris today launched the CAC 40® Governance Index, a thematic index that rates companies in the Paris market’s benchmark CAC 40 index on their corporate governance performance. The CAC 40® Governance Index takes the constituent stocks ...
European Commission published consultation on FinTech
March 24th, 2017
Consumer Financial Services Action Plan: Better products and more choice for European consumers The European Commission is today presenting an Action Plan that sets out ways to provide European consumers with greater choice and better access to financial services ...
Pound Sterling Jumps Against Euro, Dollar
March 23rd, 2017
The UK consumer is back, and the British Pound likes it. The ONS has reported on Thursday, March 23 that UK retail sales grew 1.4% in February in what amounts to an impressive recovery on the 1.3% contraction witnessed ...
TFX to introduce Packs and Bundles to Three-month Euroyen futures
March 22nd, 2017
TFX will add Packs and Bundles functions as trading strategies of Three-month Euroyen futures. While TFX currently offers a fee discount program for synthetic Packs and Bundles transactions executed via block trade facility (off-exchange), it will introduce another fee ...
Bats Europe launches two new Indices designed to measure impact of Brexit on UK companies
March 22nd, 2017
Bats Partners with FactSet to Provide Brexit 50/50 Indices Ahead of Triggering of Article 50 Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. company and the region’s largest equities exchange operator, today announced it has launched the Bats Brexit 50/50 Indices, ...
The euro gained against the dollar on Tuesday
March 21st, 2017
Euro hits 6-week high against dollar after French presidential debate The euro gained against the dollar on Tuesday, with analysts attributing the rally to centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron performing well in France’s first televised presidential debate. The shared currency ...
The Netherlands and some Nordic countries jail less in Europe
March 21st, 2017
Europe’s prison population falls, but there is no progress in tackling overcrowding, says annual Council of Europe survey The number of people held in European prisons decreased by 6.8% from 2014 to 2015, although prison overcrowding remained a problem ...
Bats Europe announced the successful buy-side focused launch of Bats LIS
March 21st, 2017
Buy-side Firms Now Have Access to Bats LIS, Powered by BIDS Technology Bats LIS reports record weekly volume of €114.8 million for week ending 17 March Also reports record one-day volume of €36.5 million on 16 March Bats Europe, ...
Euronext and Morningstar collaborate in European Indices and Derivatives launch
March 21st, 2017
Strategic collaboration between the eurozone’s leading pan-European exchange and the leading global provider of independent investment research Launch of a new range of Morningstar European indices and associated instruments, traded on Euronext Offer to make available benchmark indices and ...
