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CFTC Issues Proposed Amendments to Swap Data Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements for Cleared Swaps
August 21st, 2015
What is Swap? A currency swap is the simultaneous sale and purchase of the same amount of a given currency at a forward exchange rate. Find More Glossary Terms for Trading under Trading Education The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading ...
Fatca law: Taking the IRS to Court
August 21st, 2015
The 2010 Fatca law has made many Americans unbankable overseas. Nancy Pelosi famously said Congress had to pass ObamaCare so Americans could learn what was in it, but that rule applies to other regulatory monsters too. Take Fatca, the ...
China Shares Hit New Low Since Depth of Selloff
August 21st, 2015
Early gauge of China’s factory activity falls to multiyear low China’s stock market set a new low since the depths of the summer selloff that wiped out roughly a third of its value, despite massive intervention from Beijing. The ...
Russia, China to Create Entirely Different Gold Market
August 20th, 2015
While key Western banks are artificially restraining gold prices to breathe life into the diluted and devalued dollar system, Russia, China and other emerging economies are involved in “the genial move” to establish an entirely different gold market, F. ...
SEC Charges Citigroup and agreed to pay $15 million
August 20th, 2015
SEC Charges Citigroup Global Markets for Compliance and Surveillance Failures The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Citigroup Global Markets has agreed to settle charges that it failed to enforce policies and procedures to prevent and detect securities transactions ...
China’s devaluation may be bad news for FX industry
August 19th, 2015
China’s currency devaluation should give a shot in the arm to global foreign exchange volumes as traders take advantage of and protect themselves against the surprise surge in volatility, but its longer-term impact on market activity may not be ...
Bitnet and PAY.ON Enter Strategic Partnership to Enable PSPs Globally
August 19th, 2015
Bitnet and PAY.ON Enter Strategic Partnership to Enable PSPs Globally to Offer Simplified Bitcoin Acceptance Bitnet, an enterprise bitcoin payments processor, and PAY.ON, a leading provider of white label global payment gateway solutions, today announced a strategic partnership that ...
Selfie Payments? Verifying Payments with Facial Recognition and Fingerprint Scans
August 19th, 2015
First Tech Federal Credit Union and MasterCard announce First U.S. Biomatric Payments Pilot First Tech Federal Credit Union announced a pilot program with MasterCard that will enable First Tech employees to authenticate and verify transactions using facial recognition and ...
Asian shares plunge to two-year lows as China stocks continue to fall
August 19th, 2015
Shanghai shares index drops 3.9%, denting hopes of Chinese stock markets stabilising following last week’s devaluation of yuan Asian shares on Wednesday struggled at two-year lows after Chinese stocks extended their fall, stoking fears about the stability of China’s ...
Gold price rises to $1,117.80 an ounce
August 18th, 2015
Analysts attribute increase to Chinese yuan devaluation The global prices of gold moved higher on Monday, causing retail prices in the UAE to edge slightly higher by less than a dirham per gram. Retail gold rate in Dubai went ...
