Archives
Moody’s: New Spanish securitisation law aims to boost domestic financial sector
April 28th, 2015
Spain’s new securitisation law, which aims to stimulate the country’s financial sector, will provide a more flexible framework for securitisation transactions and, as such, will be beneficial for new Spanish securitisations across the asset-backed securities and covered bond markets, ...
Enternext Launches Tech 40 Label to Promote Innovative European Companies
April 28th, 2015
EnterNext, the Euronext subsidiary dedicated to promoting and growing the market for SMEs, today announced the launch of Tech 40, a label recognising innovative European SMEs listed on the markets it covers. Each year Tech 40 will allow 40 ...
MOVES-Mills takes BofA Merrill Lynch EMEA product solutions helm
April 28th, 2015
Martin Mills has been appointed head of EMEA product solutions at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, according to an internal memo seen by IFR. Mills replaces John Cavanagh, who left the position at the end of March. He reports ...
Greek PM A. Tsipras met with voters in jumbo interview (Video)
April 28th, 2015
Greek Prime Minister A. Tsipras’ interview ran from 11.30 p.m. through to 2.36 a.m. and involved him directly answering voters’ questions Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appeared confident that an “interim agreement” would be agreed upon with Greece’s partners ...
Tradition to integrate Azul’s Zing
April 28th, 2015
Tradition chooses Azul Zing to increase predictability and lower latency across its trading platforms. Azul Systems, the provider of Java runtime solutions, has announced that Zing, Azul’s Java Virtual Machine (JVM) will be integrated into Tradition’s trading platforms. Tradition ...
Independent Reserve launches first Australian multi-currency bitcoin exchange
April 28th, 2015
Independent Reserve, the Bitcoin market, announced today that it had become the first Australian exchange to offer Bitcoin trading directly in both U.S. and Australian dollars. CEO Adrian Przelozny said the development would allow Australians to trade Bitcoin without ...
Bank of Russia Opposes Forex Restrictions
April 28th, 2015
The Bank of Russia said late Monday that it opposes any restrictions on using foreign currencies in Russia, addressing earlier calls from the country’s security council. The inter-agencies commission of the Security Council of Russia had told the central ...
Federal court in Florida issued a Consent Order against Inter-Global Currency & Precious Metals and its owner
April 28th, 2015
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that a federal court in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida issued a Consent Order against Defendants Inter-Global Currency & Precious Metals, LLC (IGCPM) of Pompano Beach, Florida, and its owner, manager, and controlling person Stavros ...
Deloitte appoints Ruth Markland as Independent Non-Executive
April 28th, 2015
Deloitte, the business advisory firm, has announced the appointment of Ruth Markland as an Independent Non-Executive. Ruth is the Senior Independent Director of Standard Chartered PLC and The Sage Group Plc, as well as a member of the Supervisory ...
ELITE welcomes first intake of European companies to programme
April 28th, 2015
25 new companies join ELITE this week from across Europe ELITE is London Stock Exchange Group’s pan-European programme for ambitious high growth businesses Companies from Germany, Spain, France, Finland, Greece and Romania among those to join programme Further 42 ...
