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An Italian court indicted officials from ratings agencies Standard & Poor's and Fitch on Tuesday over accusations of market manipulation related to cuts to Italy's sovereign debt ratings during the euro zone debt crisis in 2011 and 2012...
Market Committee is expected to announce that its adventures in quantitative easing (QE), or permanent open market operations (POMO), are over. There will be no more $15bn a month bond purchases by a proxy for the U.S. state. For the first time in six years, markets will be on their own...
Assessing the health of the hedge fund industry is a complicated process. Frankly, it’s a confusing one. They had a rough year in 2013, getting trounced by cheap index funds, but most customers seemed to understand. Last year was a bull market and a correction was in order...
In an exciting new competition with attractive prizes and monetary rewards, FXTM Partners is offering existing and aspiring Introducers an opportunity to showcase their networking skills...
In collaboration with forex news portal Forex Circles, FXTM will be giving its clients access to free daily technical/fundamental analysis reports and daily market insights; we intend on making the trading experience as seamless as possible by helping traders predict price patterns and plan their...
People are leaving Goldman Sachs. And when they leave Goldman Sachs, they are (eventually) joining Deutsche Bank. Or at least this applies to two former senior Goldman staff whose new roles at the German bank were announced yesterday...
Private banks in Singapore are breathing life into a generally dull fintech job market in Singapore, although the skills they are demanding can make it tricky for IT professionals to join their ranks...
YouTube is in the early stages of exploring new subscription services, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki told Re/code’s Peter Kafka and Liz Gannes at Code/Mobile conference...
The World Economic Forum's ninth Global Gender Gap Report estimates that the world will not eliminate the gender gap until 2095 -- that's another 81 years. Good news for the women out there: the World Economic Forum believes that gender equality is achievable -- just not for another 81 years...
At Americana Manhasset, the salespeople know your closet better than you do. They call designers in Paris or Milan to find the perfect little black dress. They deliver soup when you’re ill...
Who earns £320k aged 33 in the City of London? Certainly not the ‘average’ front office banker, who according to the figures we most recently received from pay data company Emolument, is earning something close to £275k by that age...
In the latest hiring roundup, Millennium is building a commodities team, Credit Suisse looks to grow in M&A and credit financing and new hedge funds popping up in London. Millennium hiring commodities traders Millennium Management is adding to its newly created commodities trading team...
A Masters in Finance course, while not a prerequisite, appears to come in handy when applying for a graduate job in investment banking...
You want to work in a high-paying, client-facing ‘front office’ job in an investment bank. So, should you go for a job in mergers and acquisitions M&A, or for a job in sales and trading? How can you tell which will best suit your skills and personality...
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- Italian market watchdog Consob on Monday imposed a temporary short-selling ban on shares of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena Spa BMPS, -20.30% as they sank 20% on the Milan stock exchange...
Investment banks shipping their back office jobs into lower cost destinations in the UK outside of London is nothing new, but pace of expansion has increased dramatically over the past two years and firms are struggling to hire...
oing into the holiday season, hackers are ramping up their efforts to attack retailers and other businesses with point-of-sale malware. BackOff, which is one of the most effective strands of PoS malware and is undetectable by most anti-virus software, saw a huge spike in the third quarter...
ROME--Nine Italian banks failed European regulators' financial-health checks, the biggest concentration of troubled banks in the European Central Bank's stress tests. A total of 25 eurozone banks flunked the tests, facing a cumulative capital shortfall of EUR24.6 billion ($31.17 billion...
Are you a student who wants to work in finance? Now’s the time for you to hone your pitch. – Banks everywhere are accepting applications (we have a Singapore/Hong Kong deadlines timetable here and a London deadlines timetable here...
