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Court orders firms to disgorge ill-gotten funds in Binary Options fraud
April 7th, 2017
Federal Court Orders Relief Defendants Westward International Ltd. and Coucarin Holdings Ltd. to Disgorge Ill-Gotten Funds Totaling More than $1.77 Million in CFTC Binary Options Fraud Action The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Judge James ...
R3 partners with Monetary Authority of Singapore to launch Asia Blockchain Centre of Excellence
November 9th, 2016
Financial innovation firm R3 has collaborated with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to launch its first dedicated distributed ledger technology (DLT) Center of Excellence in Asia as it continues to expand its presence in the region. As Singapore’s ...
Presentation of the ECB Annual Report 2015 to the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs of the European Parliament
April 8th, 2016
Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the ECB presented the ECB’s 2015 Annual Report. Below is the presentation as it was published: Mr Chairman, Honourable Members of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Ladies and gentlemen, I am honoured to ...
RBI:India Cuts Rates,First Bi-monthly Monetary Policy Statement, 2016-17
April 5th, 2016
Part A: Monetary Policy Monetary and Liquidity Measures On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation, it has been decided to: reduce the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by 25 ...
SNB:Monetary policy remains expansionary
March 17th, 2016
The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is maintaining its expansionary monetary policy. The target range for the three-month Libor remains at between –1.25% and –0.25%, and interest on sight deposits at the SNB is unchanged at –0.75%. The Swiss franc ...
FED decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 1/4 to 1/2 percent
January 28th, 2016
The Federal Reserve on a meeting on January 27 announced that the Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 1/4 to 1/2 percent and supporting further improvement in labor market conditions and a ...
CFTC orders a London based financial services company to Pay a Civil Monetary Penalty
January 14th, 2016
CFTC Orders Otkritie Capital International, Ltd. to Pay a $140,000 Civil Monetary Penalty for Violating a CFTC Registration Regulation The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Otkritie Capital International, Ltd. ...
China Opens Interbank Market to Central Banks, Sovereign Funds
July 14th, 2015
China issued new rules making it easier for foreign central banks, sovereign wealth funds and global financial organizations to access its interbank bond market, the latest step in the opening up of Asia’s largest economy. They will no longer ...
The Bank of Greece Report on Monetary Policy 2014-2015
June 17th, 2015
Today, in accordance with its Statute, the Bank of Greece submitted its Report on Monetary Policy 2014-2015 to the Speaker of the Greek Parliament and the Cabinet. At the time of writing of the present report, news kept unfolding, ...
Bank of Korea Monetary Policy Decision
April 9th, 2015
The Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of Korea decided today to leave the Base Rate unchanged at 1.75% for the intermeeting period ” Based on currently available information the Committee considers that, although the trend of economic recovery ...
