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Ex-Rabobank Trader Says `Libor Time’ Was Call to Fix Rates
October 20th, 2015
Second former trader testifying against colleagues at trial Libor tied to more than $350 trillion of loans and securities “It’s Libor time.” That was the call ahead of Rabobank Groep’s daily morning Libor submission as bank employees gathered to rig ...
ICAP Information Services launches the ICAP Euro Interest Rate Swap Index
October 7th, 2015
ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, announces today that ICAP’s Global Broking business and ICAP Information Services (IIS), the information and data division of ICAP, have together launched ...
Gold dips as Yellen says Fed on track to hike rates this year
September 25th, 2015
Gold dropped from its highest in a month on Friday as the dollar rallied on an assurance from Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen that the U.S. central bank would begin raising rates this year. Spot gold had fallen 0.7 ...
Can You Imagine The Fed Raising Rates In This World? Currency Crisis Edition
August 13th, 2015
A month ago China’s stock bubble was bursting and Greece was imploding. Yet the US Fed, in a violation of both headline sentiment and common sense, was still promising to raise interest rates come September. Fast forward to this ...
Fed ready to raise rates – what will be the impact on the US and global economies?
July 15th, 2015
One of the biggest economic events of 2015 is likely to be the US Fed hiking up its policy rate later in the year, say PwC economists. Assuming this happens, its importance lies not only with the impact this will ...
ICE to launch ERIS Standard Interest Rate Futures
June 16th, 2015
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, today announced that ICE Futures Europe, the UK’s leading multi-asset class derivatives exchange, intends to launch Eris standard interest rate futures contracts denominated in Euro (EUR) ...
Basel Committee consults on interest rate risk in the banking book
June 8th, 2015
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has today issued a consultative document on the risk management, capital treatment and supervision of interest rate risk in the banking book (IRRBB). This consultative document expands upon and is intended to ultimately replace the ...
Alpari integrates the Binarystation platform. Binary technology of the highest sort
May 7th, 2015
Alpari a global leader in Forex and internet trading and Binaryware LLC, a US-based binary option technology firm have announced the launch of Alpari binary options offering on the Binarystation platform. Binarystation is a unique platform with a one-of-a-kind ...
Euro area bank interest rate statistics: March 2015
May 6th, 2015
• The composite cost-of-borrowing indicator for new loans to corporations remained unchanged at 2.34% in March 2015. • The composite cost-of-borrowing indicator for new loans to households for house purchase decreased by 8 basis points from the previous month ...
ECB: Euro area bank interest rate statistics – February 2015
April 2nd, 2015
The composite cost-of-borrowing indicator for new loans to corporations1 decreased by 8 basis points from the previous month to 2.34% in February 2015. The composite cost-of-borrowing indicator for new loans to households1 for house purchase remained broadly unchanged at ...
