Search Results for: financial institutions
FX: More scandals … less trust (Video)
November 19th, 2014
The reputation of international banking is under scrutiny once again over another scandal, this time in the foreign currency trading sector. Global regulators have fined major banks in Europe and the US, for foreign exchange market manipulation. The massive fines are not ...
Islamic finance body AAOIFI to discuss global accounting standards
November 18th, 2014
The Bahrain-based Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) is engaging its counterpart in conventional finance to discuss the convergence of corporate accounting standards. The move is a shift in approach by AAOIFI, which has traditionally developed accounting standards ...
BoE’s Carney says may need to regulate bankers’ fixed pay
November 17th, 2014
Regulators may need to look at new rules to control the fixed pay of bankers as well as their bonuses so that it can be clawed back in the event of wrongdoing, the governor of the Bank of England ...
Sydney Yuan Hub Seen Saving Importers 7% in Trading: Currencies
November 17th, 2014
Australian importers are in line for a windfall as speculation grows that Chinese President Xi Jinping will use his visit to the country this week to anoint Sydney as a yuan trading center. The ability to exchange Australian dollars ...
Hong Kong, US Sign FATCA Agreement
November 14th, 2014
On November 13, Hong Kong and the United States signed an inter-governmental agreement (IGA), the substantive terms of which were agreed in May this year, and which will facilitate compliance with the US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) ...
Forex traders plotted strategy in secret chats
November 13th, 2014
Traders of major banks fined $4.3 billion Wednesday for attempted manipulation of foreign exchange markets used electronic chat rooms to plot their moves. Transcript excerpts of conversations released Wednesday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission show traders from U.S. banks Citibank(C) ...
Suit Accuses Banks of Role in Financing Terror Attacks
November 11th, 2014
The suit accuses banks — including HSBC and Barclays — of helping to finance the violent activities through their ties to Iran, painting Wall Street as a sort of middleman of terror. Those acts of terrorism occurred a world away ...
Moscow Exchange chooses DataSpace as primary data center services provider
November 11th, 2014
Moscow Exchange, Russia”s leading exchange platform for equities, bonds, derivatives, currencies, money market instruments and commodities, announced that it has chosen Moscow-based DataSpace as its primary data center facility and services provider. Following an initial stage in 2015—during which ...
Credit Without Banks: Shadow Banking
November 10th, 2014
One of the vivid lessons of the 2007-2009 recession and financial crisis is that in the modern economy, one can’t just think about the financial sector as made up of banks and the stock market. Other financial institutions can ...
Chinese, Canadian central banks agree to 200 bln yuan currency swap
November 10th, 2014
The central banks of China and Canada have agreed to a currency swap worth 200 billion yuan ($32.67 billion) or C$30 billion, according to a Canadian government statement issued at a meeting of Asia Pacific nations on Saturday. The swap will ...
