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EY and Microsoft form strategic business relationship
April 23rd, 2015
Alliance focused on accelerating customers’ digital adoption to build a better working world EY announced a strategic business relationship with Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) to deliver new and innovative services through their digital-age strengths to companies around the world. ...
Nokia Agrees to $16.6 Billion Takeover of Alcatel-Lucent
April 15th, 2015
The Finnish telecommunications company Nokia said Wednesday that it had agreed to an all-share takeover of Alcatel-Lucent that valued its French rival at 15.6 billion euros, or about $16.6 billion. The combined company is expected to become the world’s second-largest telecom equipment manufacturer ...
Europe to Pull Trigger on Google Antitrust Charges
April 15th, 2015
Case would be EU’s biggest competition battle since pursuit of Microsoft a decade ago Europe’s antitrust regulator plans to file formal charges against Google Inc.for violating antitrust laws, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday, stepping up a five-year investigation ...
EBS Select goes live with beta
April 9th, 2015
EBS, ICAP’s market-leading electronic FX business, announces today that EBS Select, its non-disclosed, segmented, bilateral liquidity pool, has gone live with a beta version, with the first trade completed on 24 March 2015. EBS Select is the third liquidity ...
Brokers under SEBI’s scanner for moving investors’ money abroad
April 6th, 2015
At least five stock brokers have come under regulatory scanner for siphoning off securities and funds worth over Rs 500 crore from investor accounts for personal gains to foreign locations, including Switzerland and Singapore, as also for private ventures ...
EU Lays Groundwork for Antitrust Charges Against Google
April 2nd, 2015
Regulator seeks permission to publish complaints against Internet giant in long-running probe Europe’s competition regulator is preparing to move against Google Inc. in the next few weeks, a person familiar with the matter said Wednesday, setting the stage for charges against the ...
Should Individual Tax Returns Be Public Information?
March 30th, 2015
My guess is that if you asked Americans if their income taxes should be public information, the answers would mostly run the spectrum from “absolutely not” to “hell, no.” But the idea that tax returns should be confidential and ...
FXCM to Sell FXCM Japan
March 25th, 2015
FXCM has issued a press release informing that: FXCM Holdings, LLC and FXCM Newco, LLC (“FXCM”) have signed a definitive agreement to sell FXCM Japan Securities Co., Ltd (“FXCM Japan”) to Rakuten Securities, Inc. (“Rakuten Sec”), a top 5 ...
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) updates the list of unauthorised websites offering binary options trading
March 24th, 2015
The AMF is publishing a new updated list of websites offering binary options trading – last update was earlier this month – for which no authorised investment services provider could be clearly identified. The earlier version of this month is available ...
HMRC issues almost £100m in tax return penalties
March 11th, 2015
Tax payers could find themselves with a daily penalty increase if they continue to fail to submit their return HMRC has issued 890,000 people with a £100 penalty fine for failing to complete their tax returns by the 31 ...