Daily Archives: 25/08/2016
SFC reprimands and fines Morgan Stanley
August 25th, 2016
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has resolved its concerns with Morgan Stanley Hong Kong Securities Limited (MSHK) over its internal control failures. Under the resolution, the SFC reprimanded and fined MSHK $18.5 million for breaches of the Code ...
Taiwan to toughen anti-money laundering law after US fine
August 25th, 2016
Taiwan moved Thursday (Aug 25) to toughen its anti-money laundering law after US authorities fined a local bank linked to the so-called Panama Papers scandal. Last week, American regulators fined Taiwan’s Mega International Commercial Bank US$180 million for showing ...
Fintech CurrencyFair poaches ex-AO World chairman to supercharge growth
August 25th, 2016
Peer-to-peer online money exchange platform CurrencyFair has poached Richard Rose, the former chairman of AO World, to be its new chairman, hoping Rose can help CurrencyFair grow to a similar size as the listed white goods retailer. Veteran businessman ...
Nasdaq Announces Mid-Month Open Short Interest Positions in Nasdaq Stocks as of Settlement Date August 15, 2016
August 25th, 2016
At the end of the settlement date of August 15, 2016, short interest in 2,334 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,501,329,605 shares compared with 7,662,477,758 shares in 2,335 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of July 29, ...
Elliott Wave Analysis On SILVER And Crude OIL
August 25th, 2016
SILVER On Silver we see a five wave decline down in wave C) that represents final wave of a corrective set-back in big blue wave 4. Well, this decline can be now coming to an end since we see ...
What Are the Odds that the 2020-2022 Olympics Will Be Cancelled?
August 25th, 2016
It’s tough to pay for an Olympics when 95% of your supposed “wealth” has vanished. In the modern era (1896-present), the Olympics have only been cancelled in wartime: 1916 (World War I), 1940 and 1944 (World War II). But ...
Cyprus, Lebanon, Egypt, and Israel are issuing a new series of natural gas exploration licenses
August 25th, 2016
The major natural gas reservoirs that have been discovered off the Mediterranean shores in recent years have made the region a focus of international interest. The past few months have been especially lively, with Lebanon, Egypt, Cyprus, and Israel ...
Coda Payments raises $2M to enable alternative online payments in Asia
August 25th, 2016
Relying on credit cards doesn’t work in Southeast Asia, where less than 10 percent of the 600 million population are estimated to own plastic. That makes alternative payments, like bank transfer or over-the-counter, critical for anyone doing business in ...
The small beautiful African country of Malawi said to legalise forex black market traders
August 25th, 2016
The Reserve Bank of Malawi (RBM) has said it will formalise traders selling foreign currency outside the official exchange rate, following pronouncements made by Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) director Atuweni Juwayeyi Agbermodji that parallel foreign exchange traders need to ...
Foreign exchange trade suspension in Nigeria; Investors dump shares of Nigerian banks
August 25th, 2016
Investors sold shares in Nigerian banks on Wednesday, a day after the central bank suspended nine lenders from foreign exchange transactions for failing to remit money owed to the government. The central bank suspended FCMB, First Bank, United Bank ...
