Standard Chartered Bank has unveiled a new innovation lab in Singapore in a bid to culture and develop the use of emerging technologies and data…
Posts published in March 2016
Hungarian Forint Down After Surprise Interest Rate Cut
The Hungarian forint traded lower today after yesterday’s surprise from the nation’s central bank. The Magyar Nemzeti Bank (the central bank of Hungary) lowered its main interest rate from 1.35%…
Canadian Regulators Take Stance on Binary Options in Canada
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), comprised of the country’s thirteen key financial market regulators across their respective provinces, today issued a release that warns Canadians…
After the news that and that the company’s clients are not only not receiving their withdrawals but have also lost the ability to check their account…
Dollar Goes Higher as Fed Members Talk About April Rate Hike
The US dollar was pushing higher today as the outlook for monetary tightening turned into a more hawkish one after comments of Federal Reserve officials. Markets have discounted an interest rate hike…
LIBOR Conspirator Tom Hayes Ordered to Pay £878k Fine
The ongoing saga of Tom Hayes, the first individual to be convicted for the manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), has taken a…
ASIC Jumps Into Action with Fintech Regulation
Starting last week and continuing this week, Australia is seeing a light into the new economy, now that the “resources boom is over” (have we…
Low Interest Rates Keep Swiss Outlook Bleak
At -0.75% the Swiss franc holds the lowest interest rate of all the major currencies, and with inflation remaining stubbornly low we continue to maintain…
Market data provider Barchart, announced today the launch of a set of WebSockets APIs, embodying JavaScript, Java and soon Swift libraries. The APIs are designed…
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), an independent statutory body set up to help police the country’s domestic securities and futures market, has appointed…