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Gold rebounds from three-day slide ahead of Fed minutes
February 18th, 2016
Gold held onto earlier gains and snapped three days of losses on Wednesday, after minutes of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest meeting showed policymakers considered changing their planned path of interest rate hikes in 2016. “If the recent tightening ...
FIS and PayPal Set Pace for Cardless Cash in the United States
February 12th, 2016
Key facts FIS and PayPal collaborate on technology that gives consumers access to their bank accounts with one touch from their smartphones at more than 2,000 ATMs today nationwide. FIS Cardless Cash makes getting cash more secure for consumers ...
US economy adds 151,000 jobs in January
February 8th, 2016
The US economy added 151,000 jobs in January, helping to push the country’s unemployment rate down to 4.9%. The number was lower than expected and is a sharp slowdown from December, when 292,000 jobs were added. Job losses in ...
R3 brings eleven major global financial institutions together on a cloud based distributed ledger
January 21st, 2016
Financial technology innovation company, R3 CEV, today announced the successful completion of a ground breaking distributed ledger experiment involving eleven of the world’s largest financial institutions. R3 and consortium member banks Barclays, BMO Financial Group, Credit Suisse, Commonwealth Bank of ...
Blockchain consortium R3 opens its doors to exchanges and clearing houses in 2016
December 17th, 2015
Blockchain standards builder R3 has opened its doors to non-bank financial services firms including funds, exchanges, clearing houses, standards bodies and infrastructure companies, from early in 2016. R3 also announced the addition of another 12 banks, taking the total ...
PRECIOUS-Gold stays firm after Fed raises rates
December 17th, 2015
Gold held gains on Wednesday, after the Federal Reserve raised U.S. interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, as expected, making clear it was a tentative beginning to a “gradual” tightening cycle. The U.S. central bank’s ...
Euro volatility: The impact of Greece crisis has been less clear in FX than in other markets
June 29th, 2015
Euro recovers ground but still broadly down in volatile trade The euro recovered much of the ground it had lost overnight in volatile trading on Monday, but was still 0.8 percent down against the dollar, after Greece took a ...
Chinese, Canadian central banks agree to 200 bln yuan currency swap
November 10th, 2014
The central banks of China and Canada have agreed to a currency swap worth 200 billion yuan ($32.67 billion) or C$30 billion, according to a Canadian government statement issued at a meeting of Asia Pacific nations on Saturday. The swap will ...
Canada seeks to become Renminbi (RMB) trading centre for the Americas
September 2nd, 2014
The Toronto Financial Services Alliance (TFSA) and AdvantageBC has announced they would work together, with officials from the federal, Ontario and BC governments, and the financial industry, to promote Canada as a trading hub for the Chinese currency, the ...
Goldman Stays Gold Bear as Bullish Wagers Increase: Commodities
July 14th, 2014
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s Jeffrey Currie isn’t backing down from his bearish call on gold. As bullion’s 11 percent rally this year beats gains for equities, commodities and Treasuries, he’s sticking with the view that the metal will be ...
