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Biggest Ever Saudi Overhaul Targets $100 Billion of Revenue
April 4th, 2016
Levies on expats, energy, luxury goods, sugary drinks seen Plan is to boost non-oil revenue to balance budget by 2020 The biggest economic shake-up since the founding of Saudi Arabia would accelerate subsidy cuts and impose more levies, a ...
DCCC expands Collateral Basket to include major G6 currencies
March 30th, 2016
The Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC), the central counter-party (CCP) for the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX), on Monday announced that Clearing members will now be able to deposit cash collateral to the Corporation in the form of ...
Financial Policy Committee statement from its policy meeting, 23 March 2016
March 29th, 2016
1. The Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) assesses the outlook for financial stability by identifying the risks faced by the financial system and weighing them against the resilience of the system. In doing so, its aim is to ...
Egypt targets higher growth, deficit reduction in new government program
March 29th, 2016
Egypt promised tough action to restore growth on Sunday with a government program that aimed to reduce the budget deficit while protecting the poor as public anger mounts over a deteriorating economy. Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, reading out a ...
TWSE Launches Mobile Version of Rules & Regulation Directory
March 28th, 2016
The Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) has rolled out a mobile version of its popular Rules & Regulations Directory to facilitate browsing on mobile phones and tablets. The move makes it even easier for domestic and foreign visitors to access ...
HSBC reports on Oil prices scenarios
March 24th, 2016
Despite hopes that lower oil prices will stabilise global growth, experience suggests otherwise. Growth was disappointing in 2015 even though the oil price had plunged in 2014. While developed-world consumer spending grew at the fastest rate since before the ...
ASX chief Elmer Funke Kupper quits in face of investigation
March 22nd, 2016
The head of the Australian Securities Exchange, Elmer Funke Kupper, has quit his $3.5 million a year job over allegations that he knew of a $200,000 payment to the family of Cambodian strongman prime minister Hun Sen. The $200,000 payment was made when Mr Funke Kupper was ...
CFTC Approves Substituted Compliance Framework in Follow-up to the Recent Equivalence Agreement between the US and the EU
March 18th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today unanimously approved a substituted compliance framework for dually-registered central counterparties (CCPs) located in the European Union (EU), together with a comparability determination with respect to certain EU rules. Today’s action follows ...
Will bitcoin provide banks with their ‘Kodak Moment’?
March 16th, 2016
The world’s banks are facing a ‘Kodak Moment’ if they continue to dismiss the virtual currency bitcoin as just the opening act for more revolutionary blockchain-based innovation, says Max Tannahill, a business change and implementation manager at ANZ It ...
NSE and SGX to launch the world’s first offshore Indian sector futures
March 16th, 2016
India Index Services & Products Limited (IISL), a National Stock Exchange (NSE) group company, and Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced their intention to introduce futures on Indian sector-specific index futures on SGX. This is the first time that derivatives ...
