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Morningstar: Interview with Robin Milway, Manager of the New Capital Dynamic European Equity Fund
April 21st, 2016
Trouble in the US led to a contagion melt down across the Channel last year – and while American markets have bounced back, there are still opportunities in Europe Emma Wall: Hello, and welcome to the Morningstar series, “Why ...
Digital Asset Holdings announces acquisition of Swiss-based technology company Elevence
April 21st, 2016
Digital Asset Holdings (Digital Asset), a developer of distributed ledger technology for the financial services industry, today announced that it has acquired Zurich-based Elevence Digital Finance AG (Elevence), a technology firm that has developed an expressive language for financial ...
Apple Pay comes to Singapore today
April 19th, 2016
Apple Pay is now available in Singapore, marking the mobile payment service’s expansion into its sixth country and its second in Asia. Singapore residents are only able to use American Express cards right now, but Apple says support for ...
ESMA announces EU-wide stress tests for CCPs
April 18th, 2016
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has announced today the publication of its first EU-wide stress test exercise regarding Central Counterparties (CCPs) on 29 April 2016. ESMA is mandated to conduct stress tests of CCPs under the European ...
Interactive Data launches Liquidity Indicators service in Europe
April 18th, 2016
Interactive Data, a leading provider of fixed-income evaluated pricing, and subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), announced today that its Liquidity Indicators Service is now available for European and Asia-Pacific corporate and sovereign securities. This represents an expansion of its ...
Blockchain won’t kill banks: Brock Pierce
April 12th, 2016
Blockchain – the technology that underpins the cryptocurrency bitcoin – is unlikely to kill banks despite warnings from top industry executives, the chair of a bitcoin non-profit organization told CNBC on Monday. Last week, Andrey Sharov, a vice president ...
LCH.Clearnet licenced to clear interest rate derivatives in Japan
April 11th, 2016
Japanese Financial Services Agency approves LCH.Clearnet Ltd to clear non-Yen OTC interest rate derivatives for Japanese banks Demonstrates LCH.Clearnet’s long-term commitment to Japan and the wider Asia-Pacific region First foreign financial markets infrastructure provider to be licensed locally in ...
Catalytic Finance Initiative Brings Together Banks and Investors, Directs $8 Billion in Capital for High-Impact Sustainable Projects
April 6th, 2016
AllianceBernstein, Babson Capital Management, Bank of America, Crédit Agricole CIB, European Investment Bank, HSBC, International Finance Corporation, Mirova and the Aligned Intermediary to Fund Clean Energy Solutions A consortium of leading financial institutions and investors today announced a new partnership ...
MasterCard Digital Enablement Service Propels Growth of Secure Digital Transactions across Europe with More than 60 Projects Underway
April 6th, 2016
The adoption of digital payments continues to grow worldwide with MasterCard predicting that by 2020, 38 percent of payments made throughout Europe will be digital. This shift in consumer behavior will be powered safely and securely by the MasterCard Digital ...
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 ...
