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Posit Alert Hits New International Trading Records
February 12th, 2015
ITG (NYSE:ITG) a leading execution and research broker, today announced that POSIT Alert® hit new records in January 2015 for value traded in Europe, Asia Pacific, Canada and Latin America. Global POSIT Alert crossed block equity trades with total notional value of approximately $25 billion. POSIT Alert is ...
Dark-Pool Trade Size Doubles in Europe as Venues Hunt Blocks
February 4th, 2015
Even before new regulations revamp trading in 2017, Europe’s private stock markets are already returning to their original purpose: handling big trades. The average size of trades on European dark pools doubled to 11,403 euros ($13,050) in December from ...
Audit Commission reveals highest ever levels of council fraud detection
October 22nd, 2014
Nearly £200M of fraud has been detected by English councils in 2013/14 – the highest amount for a generation and ten times the 1990 figure, the Audit Commission has revealed. In its latest – and last – report on ...
Inside Bitcoins Conference and Expo Will Feature Over 40 Virtual Currency Experts and 21 Sessions
September 5th, 2014
Inside Bitcoins , the leading international conference and expo exploring the business opportunities and threats posed by the growth of cryptocurrencies, debuts in London, 15-16 September, 2014. Taking place at the Grange St. Pauls Hotel, on the doorstep of ...
T-Mobile deal collapse could spark telecom price war
August 7th, 2014
Sprint Corp’s (S.N) newly appointed Chief Executive Marcelo Claure has so far had a Midas touch in the telecoms industry, turning Brightstar, a reseller of U.S. handsets to Latin America, into a distributor valued at $2.2 billion when it ...
For OPEC, the price of oil is just right, for the moment
June 12th, 2014
The world oil market has set up quite nicely for OPEC. Dramatic changes in oil production around the globe are balancing each other out instead of wreaking havoc. This has helped world oil prices stay high enough to provide ...
Tax Is the New Black for Foreign Takeovers
May 2nd, 2014
U.S. pharmaceuticals company Pfizer has augmented its attempt to buy AstraZeneca, the U.K.’s second-biggest drug maker, with a letter to Prime Minister David Cameron. The missive, as well as reminding us that meddling politicians still view takeovers as being ...
UK economy is fast growing
April 30th, 2014
The U.K. now has one of the fastest-growing economies in the developed world. With growth expanding at a 3 percent annual rate as a strong housing market and manufacturing lead the way, the country’s economy is the envy of ...
