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J.P. Morgan, SEC in Settlement Talks Over Product Steering
June 25th, 2015
J.P. Morgan, other banks have faced more scrutiny on conflicts policies from OCC J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is in talks with the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle a probe into whether the bank inappropriately steered private-banking clients to ...
IMF Report Looks At Tax And Wealth Distribution
June 18th, 2015
High-income households and corporations now face lower effective rates in some advanced economies, and this has contributed to an increase in net income inequality, according to a new International Monetary Fund report, entitled Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality: A ...
Lower Oil Revenues See Saudi-Arabia Open Up Stock Exchange
June 18th, 2015
Saudi Arabia may be rich enough to weather the current trend of low oil prices, but it’s losing money nonetheless and has found a way that it believes could help make up for the loss: opening its stock market ...
China shares fall, other Asian markets mixed ahead of Fed
June 17th, 2015
Chinese stocks fell for a third day and other Asian markets were mixed Wednesday as investors looked ahead to the U.S. Federal Reserve‘s policy update. KEEPING SCORE: The Shanghai Composite Index shed 2.4 percent to 4,769.73 and Tokyo’s Nikkei ...
Saudi Market Opening May Help Neighbors
June 15th, 2015
Other Arab countries—including Qatar, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates—are likely to be among the major beneficiaries When Saudi Arabia opens up its stock market to foreign investors Monday, the loudest cheers may come from the Persian Gulf country’s ...
BoE: Fair and Effective Markets Review Releases Final Report
June 11th, 2015
Bank of England – The Fair and Effective Markets Review today published its Final Report, which sets out 21 recommendations to help restore trust in the wholesale Fixed Income, Currency and Commodity (FICC) markets. The Review was established by the ...
Strengthening the international community’s fight against offshore tax evasion
June 8th, 2015
Australia, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia and New Zealand join multilateral agreement to automatically exchange information In a boost for international efforts to strengthen co-operation against offshore tax evasion, seven new countries have joined the agreement to exchange ...
What Would Happen If Mainstream Investors Discovered Gold?
June 8th, 2015
China, India and Russia are accumulating a lot of gold, but they’re virtually alone. Traditional money managers, for a variety of reasons, view the metal as neither a viable investment (because it doesn’t pay interest) nor a substitute for ...
Deutsche Bank appoints John Cryan to succeed Jürgen Fitschen and Anshu Jain
June 8th, 2015
The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank (XETRA: DBKGn.DE / NYSE: DB) decided at an extraordinary meeting today to appoint John Cryan (54) to the position of Co-Chief Executive Officer, effective July 1, 2015. Mr. Cryan has been a member ...
New Bundesbank projection: German economy shows an upward trend
June 5th, 2015
The German economy has recovered more quickly than expected from the cyclical lull in the middle of last year and has returned to a growth path that is underpinned by both domestic and foreign demand. “Domestic economic activity is ...
