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ISDA and IIFM publish Islamic Cross Currency Swap Standard
November 27th, 2015
The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) and the International Islamic Financial Market (IIFM) today announced publication of a new Islamic hedging product standard, the ISDA/IIFM Himaayah Min Taqallub As‘aar Assarf (Islamic Cross Currency Swap) for use in Islamic hedging ...
UBS Building Virtual Coin For Mainstream Banking
September 7th, 2015
Swiss bank UBS is working on a prototype virtual currency that it hopes will be used by banks and financial institutions as a basis to settle mainstream financial markets transactions. But unlike the bitcoin digital currency, the Swiss bank’s ...
The Aftermath of LIBOR and Penny-Shaving Attacks
August 12th, 2015
Anyone remember the LIBOR scandal from back in spring 2008? A trader for UBS Group and Citigroup named Tom Hayes was just sentenced by a British court to 14 years imprisonment for his role as a ringleader of the scandal. Darrell Duffie and Jeremy C. ...
OpenMAMA Sees Strong Adoption across Financial Services Sector
July 23rd, 2015
“Significantly increases vendor coverage and re-launches with a new advisory group” OpenMAMA, the project developed to allow financial services firms to move more freely between market data technology and content vendors, today announces its re-launch boasting a new advisory ...
FMA welcomes opportunity to review financial advice laws
March 3rd, 2015
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) welcomes today’s announcement by the Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, Paul Goldsmith, about the review of legislation governing financial advisers. The Minister today released the terms of reference for the review of the ...
Events – Conferences – Seminars
February 26th, 2015
Stay updated with coming Live Events, Conferences and Seminars for Forex Market, Accounting, Legal Banking and in general on Business, Finance and Investments
The Federal Reserve Bitcoin Strategy
January 28th, 2015
This morning The Federal Reserve Bitcoin Strategy was released in a paper outlining multiple options for improving the U.S. payment system. In the past, Digital currency had been deemed too immature. Now, after pressure from private sector interests, the ...
UK’s first Shari’ah-compliant Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS)
November 28th, 2014
IFAAS, the international Islamic finance consultancy and Portillion Capital have launched the UK’s first Shariah compliant Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme fund. The Portillion Capital Shariah Compliant SEIS Fund (SEIS Fund) is available to investors immediately; however, the first tranche ...
British Banks May Face Probe of Checking Accounts, Loans
November 5th, 2014
U.K. antitrust regulators said they may open an investigation into checking accounts and banking services for small- and medium-sized businesses. The Competition and Markets Authority will issue a decision on starting a full probe into banking for small firms ...
Guernsey Welcomes Latest Financial Center Rankings
October 17th, 2014
Guernsey has taken third place in this year’s global rankings of specialist financial centers issued by trade publication The Banker. Guernsey was once again ranked third behind the Cayman Islands and Jersey, however the figures this year show that ...
