Top stories of the day
1. The European Central Bank raised the emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) ceiling for Greek banks by 1.1 billion euros on Tuesday, in the wake of Monday’s Eurogroup meeting that recorded some progress in the talks between the government and its creditors.
2. The U.S. Justice Department is set to rip up its agreement not to prosecute UBS Group AG for rigging benchmark interest rates, according to a person familiar with the matter, taking a new step to hold banks accountable for repeat offenses.
3. The Bank of England has cut its 2015 growth forecast from 2.9% to 2.5%, and for next year from 2.9% to 2.6%, as governor Mark Carney unveiled his quarterly inflation report. And he told MPs interest rates would rise only in about a year’s time.
4. Centralspot Trading (Cyprus) Ltd. Doing business as Opteck.com Is officially authorized and regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC). This regulatory body will be in charge of overseeing our entire operations.
5. The Euro Banking Association (EBA) has published two ‘hot topic’ reports on Digital Customer Service Interfaces (DCSI) and crypto-technologies at its EBA day payments conference today in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with the intention of detailing the electronic payments landscape of the future.
By Onestopbrokers
