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What Now? Brexit Win Sets Stage for Two Years of Bitter Talks
June 24th, 2016
U.K. companies need new regime to access $13.6 trillion market EU rules give Britain two years to negotiate terms of exit While final votes are still being tallied, it’s clear that British voters have opted to walk out on ...
Foreign-Exchange Traders Staff Up for Brexit
June 21st, 2016
Many banks have slashed currencies-trading staff; now they are girding for an anticipated surge of activity stemming from this week’s U.K. vote Scott Schultz won’t be making any social plans for this Thursday evening. The co-head of foreign-exchange trading at ...
HSBC to pay $1.575 billion, ending Household International class action
June 17th, 2016
A unit of HSBC Holdings Plc (HSBA.L) said on Thursday it will pay $1.575 billion to end a 14-year-old shareholder class action lawsuit stemming from the Household International consumer finance business that the British bank bought in 2003. HSBC ...
Exane BNP Paribas Chooses Corvil to Safeguard Its Electronic Trading Environment
June 16th, 2016
Leading Analytics Provider for Financial Markets Expands European Footprint Through Partnership With Top EU Equities Business Corvil, the leading analytics company for financial markets, today announced that Exane BNP Paribas, a European broker dealer, is using the Corvil platform ...
A new Cyprus Investment Firm is authorised by CySec
June 15th, 2016
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the financial regulatory authority of Cyprus, has issued an announcement to inform that the authority has authorised a new Cyprus Investment Firm. According to CySec, “B.I.A. Blueport Investment Advisors Ltd“ has successfully obtained the CySec ...
Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion; LNKD shares jump 47%
June 14th, 2016
Microsoft announced a $26.2 billion deal on Monday to acquire professional social platform LinkedIn for $196 per share. Shares of LinkedIn surged 47 percent after the announcement to near $193, while Microsoft’s stock was down 3.2 percent. Trading in Microsoft had been ...
The first major collaboration between an international legal firm and one of the ‘Big Four’ professional services firms
June 14th, 2016
Allen & Overy today announces the launch of MarginMatrix™, a new digital derivatives compliance system to help major banks deal with new regulatory requirements that will come into force for the USD500 trillion over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives market from 1 ...
INTL FCStone Ltd.’s Global Payments Division reports increase in cross-border payments
June 14th, 2016
Facilitated ~101,000 payments in CY Q1 2016; an increase of ~14% vs. CY Q1 2015 Signed 500th institutional client in CY Q2 2016 Transferred more than $22 billion in payments in CY 2015; on track to increase in 2016 INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
European markets set to follow Asia lower; oil under pressure
June 10th, 2016
European markets are expected to open mixed to mostly lower on Friday, as weaker trade in Asia and a fall in oil prices weighed on sentiment. The London FTSE 100 index is called to open 3 points lower at ...
Is your company in legal trouble? There’s an app for that
June 3rd, 2016
Australian law firms are servicing their clients on smartphones and with hackathons There have long been dedicated smartphone apps to order pizza, book flights and identify songs. But managing corporate strategy in a crisis is an entirely new function. ...