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Euro Working Group to discuss Greece on Wednesday
March 24th, 2015
The Euro Working Group (EWG) of eurozone technical staff is expected to convene on Wednesday, possibly via teleconference, to discuss, among other issues, a Greek request for the return of 1.2 billion euros from the European Financial Stability Facility ...
Hogan Lovells Advises Optimal Payments Plc on €1.1 Billion Transformational Skrill Acquisition
March 24th, 2015
Hogan Lovells has advised Optimal Payments Plc on the €1.1 billion acquisition of Sentinel Topco Limited and its subsidiaries (Skrill Group) from Sentinel Group Holdings S.A, which is ultimately majority owned by funds managed and advised by CVC Capital ...
FCA publishes its Business Plan for 2015/16 and announces details of new supervision and authorisation divisions
March 24th, 2015
The Financial Conduct Authority has set out the key areas of work it will undertake in the forthcoming financial year with the publication of its Business Plan for 2015/16. It also confirmed the creation of two new Divisions that would ...
Central banks agree new rules for FX market conduct
March 24th, 2015
Banks must prevent traders sharing order information under a new global code of conduct that bans traditional slang usages and gives dealers more guidelines for what they can and cannot say about the world’s biggest financial market. The 8-page ...
FXCM to Update Its Negative Balance Policy
March 24th, 2015
FXCM Australia Limited (FXCM AU), today announced that it will be updating its Negative Balance Policy for new and existing clients in the near future. Existing clients should expect to receive more details about the updated policy in the ...
Dukascopy received FxCuffs 2015 award as the Best Binary Options Broker of the year
March 24th, 2015
Dukascopy Group is proud to announce that its recent entry into Binary Options market is getting recognised by the clients and the members of the FX industry. On March 14th, Dukascopy received Polish FX Industry award FxCuffs 2015 as the Best ...
UK Offshore Tax Disclosures – Use The LDF while you can [Update]
March 24th, 2015
Tax authorities around the globe are increasingly working together to fight tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance to collect more tax. In the UK, HMRC is geared up to take full advantage: anyone who needs to put UK tax ...
BOI: The Monetary Committee keeps the interest rate for April 2015 unchanged at 0.1 percent
March 24th, 2015
Inflation data The Consumer Price Index for February declined by 0.7 percent, while forecasters had projected a decline of 0.6 percent, on average. The decline in electricity prices, which came into effect in February, contributed 0.3 percentage points toward ...
Deutsche Bank presents three ‘What if’ Grexit scenarios
March 24th, 2015
Here’s the three Deutsche Bank scenarios over “Grexit”: -Grexit Scenario 1: No contagion In the first scenario, Grexit occurs but has no contagion occurs – Grexit Scenario 2: Contagion In scenario 2, after a Grexit there would be an increase in volatility ...
Quantitative easing: what is it and what does the ECB want to achieve with it?
March 24th, 2015
The European Central Bank (ECB) started at the beginning of the month with its controversial quantative easing programme, buying government bonds with the goal of lowering interest rates, increasing inflation and kick-starting economic growth. ECB president Mario Draghi meets ...
