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Swiss bank UBS settles currency-rigging claims for $135M

16/03/2015(0)
Switzerland‘s largest bank, UBS, has agreed to pay $135 million to settle claims that it helped rig currency-exchange rates in a scheme involving some of the world’s biggest banks. ... Read More
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ECB Buying Starts New Era for Bonds, Euro

09/03/2015(0)
Currency heads toward parity with dollar; paying to hold debt The arrival of the European Central Bank’s huge bond-buying plan Monday is forcing investors to prepare for the once ... Read More
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Court upholds British challenge to ECB policy on clearing houses

04/03/2015(0)
The European Union’s second-highest court has ruled the European Central Bank (ECB) was wrong to insist that euro clearing houses should be based in the single currency area, a ... Read More
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Japan’s shares at fresh 15-year high on weaker yen

27/02/2015(0)
Shares on Japan’s main index were up on Friday morning due to a weaker yen against the US dollar and despite a raft of mostly disappointing economic figures. In ... Read More
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Bigger pay packets give pound a lift as sterling hits seven-year high against the euro

19/02/2015(0)
Sterling soared to a seven-year high against the euro yesterday, pushed up by record jobs figures and rising wages, with some investors expecting a Bank of England rate hike ... Read More
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Russian Ruble Weakens on Threat of New Sanctions

28/01/2015(0)
The Russian ruble weakened on Wednesday, with a retreat in oil prices and a threat of new sanctions on Moscow for its role in the Ukraine crisis promising to ... Read More
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Swiss Franc’s Leap Lifts Some FX Brokers

26/01/2015(0)
Even as some foreign-exchange brokers that focus on serving retail customers were getting hammered by the surprise surge in the Swiss franc earlier this month, other firms that deal ... Read More
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Currency trader whizz kid ‘masterminded £5.5m Ponzi fraud’

04/12/2014(0)
A foreign currency trader used investors’ cash as his “personal piggy-bank” and blew £1 million in casinos and £500,000 in nightclubs, a court heard. Financial whizz kid Alex Hope, 25, ... Read More
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The Russian Central Bank Is Intervening Again To Halt A Rouble Collapse

04/12/2014(0)
Traders are claiming that the Central Bank of Russia has stepped back into currency markets to halt the rouble’s slide as it continued to fall in early trading on ... Read More
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Central Bank of Lithuania on Euro adoption

02/12/2014(0)
Already on the first day of 2015, when the euro will be adopted in Lithuania, the residents will be provided with the opportunities to exchange their currency: apart from ... Read More
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