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Last Wave on Libor: CFTC Likely to Charge Multiple Banks for Rate Rigging
February 16th, 2016
Citigroup, HSBC are among firms targeted by regulators, according to people close to the probe American banks have so far escaped the billions of dollars in fines that have been levied by U.S. and British regulators leading a global ...
Australia, Japan sell-off amid global rout; Nikkei drops 5.4%
February 9th, 2016
Australian and Japanese markets closed sharply lower on Tuesday, after another sell-off in U.S. and European stocks overnight as many Asian markets remained shut for the Lunar New Year. China and Taiwan are closed for the week, while markets ...
Goldman Sachs:2015 Annual and Fourth Quarter Results
January 21st, 2016
Bank’s trading revenue drops 9%, while investment banking is a bright spot Goldman Sachs Group Inc. predicted that this month’s stock-market swoon wouldn’t derail a merger boom that proved one of the bright spots in a lackluster quarter for the Wall ...
Banks Get Relief on Accounting Headache
January 7th, 2016
New treatment to alter lenders’ debt-value adjustments The banking industry’s least-favorite accounting rule is being scrapped. Accounting rule-makers on Tuesday changed a provision that in recent years has resulted in huge—and often head-scratching—swings in bank earnings. James Dimon, J.P. Morgan Chase & ...
Hedge Funds Keep Losing — And Closing — And Why It Matters
January 4th, 2016
Unmanageable Money, Part 2: Hedge Funds Keep Losing — And Closing — And Why It Matters How do you make money in a world where history is meaningless? The answer, for a growing number of big fund managers, is ...
Seven big investment banks in UK paid just $30 million tax in 2014
December 29th, 2015
Seven of the biggest investment banks operating in London paid little or no tax in Britain last year, despite reporting billions of dollars in profits, a Reuters analysis of corporate filings shows. In recent months, the seven investment and ...
What is blockchain, and can IBM, Intel, and big banks use it to remake the internet?
December 23rd, 2015
Linux was once thought of as the ugly duckling of OS world, an indulgence appealing only to system administrators, power-users, and shut-ins. Today, the Linux kernel underlies Google’s Android OS, the most widespread mobile platform in the world, and ...
QNB Group enters into definitive agreement with National Bank of Greece to acquire its 99.81% stake in Finansbank – Turkey
December 22nd, 2015
QNB Group, the largest financial institution in Qatar and the Middle East and North Africa Region, announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement with National Bank of Greece for the acquisition of its entire stake comprising 99.81% ...
Linux Foundation Unites Industry Leaders to Advance Blockchain Technology
December 18th, 2015
New open ledger project to transform the way business transactions are conducted around the world The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced a new collaborative effort to advance the popular blockchain technology. ...
Exchange operator BATS files to go public
December 16th, 2015
BATS Global Markets Inc filed for an initial public offering with U.S. regulators on Wednesday, in what would be the exchange operator’s second attempt at going public. The company told the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission in a preliminary ...