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EU, US trade negotiators get an earful from critics
April 24th, 2015
Opponents of controversial US-EU trade talks came out swinging at a public comment period Thursday, arguing the emerging agreement was a bad deal for consumers and the environment. Critics of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) included ...
Deutsche Bank agrees to pay fines
April 23rd, 2015
Deutsche Bank has issued a press release to inform that: Deutsche Bank has reached a joint settlement with US and UK regulators over all of their remaining investigations into past submissions for interbank offered rates (IBOR) benchmarks. Read also: Deutsche Bank ...
Deutsche Bank fined £227 million by FCA
April 23rd, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has handed Deutsche Bank AG (Deutsche Bank) a £227 million ($340 million) fine, its largest ever for LIBOR and EURIBOR-related (collectively known as IBOR) misconduct. The fine is so large because Deutsche Bank also ...
ESMA consults on draft guidelines specifying criteria for the assessment of knowledge and competence in MiFID II
April 23rd, 2015
The European Securities and Markets Authority launched today a consultation on draft guidelines specifying criteria for the assessment of knowledge and competence of natural persons in investment firms that provide investment advice or information about financial instruments, investment services ...
European Investment Bank rolls out the Investmet Plan for Europe
April 23rd, 2015
The first projects and transactions earmarked for benefitting from an EU budget guarantee under the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) have been approved by the Boards of the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Investment Fund (EIF) ...
Credit Suisse Goes Live Globally on FXSpotStream
April 23rd, 2015
Credit Suisse Goes Live Globally on FXSpotStream as the 10th Liquidity Provider and Commences Client Trading FXSpotStream LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of LiquidityMatch LLC, today announced that Credit Suisse is now live as a liquidity providing bank to ...
Alpari’s RU March 2015 Trading Volume Grew by 30%
April 23rd, 2015
Alpari RU has issued a press release to inform that: In March Alpari’s trading volume increased by 30% in comparison to that of February and as such exceeded $96.9 billion. More than 85% of this growth came from the ...
Lifting potential growth in the euro area
April 23rd, 2015
Speech by Peter Praet, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB, at the Welt-Währungskonferenz Potential growth and monetary policy The euro area economy seems now to be turning the corner. Both the hard and soft data suggest that ...
Poorly advised investors told to act now
April 23rd, 2015
Investors in highly sophisticated schemes may have better grounds to make a claim Investors who have previously used tax schemes which are now being scrutinised by HMRC only have six years from the date of investment to claim that ...
Lawyers warned that legal automation could dull their brains
April 23rd, 2015
Lawyers need to be careful not to lose some of their ‘deep human talent’ in the coming years as software systems take over many of their traditional tasks – a process which has dulled human expertise in other sectors, ...
