Monthly Archives: September 2016
Luxembourg Launches World’s First Green Stock Exchange
September 27th, 2016
Today, less than six weeks before COP22 , the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) becomes the first stock exchange globally to introduce a platform for green financial instruments. Luxembourg Green Exchange (LGX) is for issuers who dedicate 100% of the raised funding to green ...
Bitcoin users in Japan can now pay utility bills with bitcoin
September 27th, 2016
ResuPress Inc. a company that operates Bitcoin payment service Coincheck payment partnered with Mitsuwa industry Co. LTD. Bitcoin users in Japan can now pay utility bills with bitcoin. As an initial partnership, Coincheck will start a collaboration with E-net Systems ...
Taiwan To Levy VAT On Online Retailers
September 27th, 2016
Taiwan’s Executive Yuan has approved a Finance Ministry proposal to impose value-added tax on foreign online sellers’ supplies to Taiwanese consumers. The proposal is intended to modernize Taiwan’s VAT rules, raise additional revenues, and level the playing field for ...
Ex-HBOS Bankers Accused of Getting Travel, Escorts in Fraud
September 27th, 2016
Defendants mismanaged troubled businesses for their own gain Participants used cash and high-class escorts as rewards Ex-HBOS Plc bankers accepted expensive gifts, luxurious foreign travel and high-class escorts to establish relationships that allowed co-conspirators to take control of troubled ...
Oil prices slip on profit-taking as investors await U.S. stockpile data
September 27th, 2016
Crude futures slipped in Asian trade on Tuesday as investors took profits after prices climbed more than 3 percent in the previous session. The dollar was also weighing on oil prices after rising against a basket of currencies, suggesting ...
MarketFactory announced change of CEO
September 27th, 2016
MarketFactory announced today that, effective October 1, James Sinclair will be appointed Executive Chairman, a full time role, and Darren Jer will become CEO of MarketFactory. Commenting on the change, James Sinclair said: “MarketFactory is on track for another ...
LMAX Exchange expands in the US with the launch of a New York-based exchange
September 27th, 2016
LMAX Exchange, the leading MTF for FX, today announced the expansion of its global infrastructure with the launch of its North American matching engine in the Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centre in New York (NY4). The LMAX ...
FCA UK issued a warning for trading with OneCoin digital currency
September 27th, 2016
FCA has issued a warning to inform that consumers should be wary of dealing with OneCoin, which claims to offer the chance to make money through the trading and ‘mining’ of virtual currencies. According to FCA, OneCoin markets itself ...
Merrill Lynch Charged With Trading Controls Failures That Led to Mini-Flash Crashes
September 27th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Merrill Lynch has agreed to pay a $12.5 million penalty for maintaining ineffective trading controls that failed to prevent erroneous orders from being sent to the markets and causing mini-flash crashes. An ...
Deutsche Bank Shares Drop on Fears of Capital Raising
September 27th, 2016
Intensifying concerns about Deutsche Bank AG’s financial health caused its shares to drop Monday and pushed the company into the awkward position of publicly denying that it had sought help from the German government. Shares of Deutsche Bank, one of the ...
