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Grand currency sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010

Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... encourages China to stay the course. Both actions are causing distaste among Europeans that Britain, the Eurozone and Switzerland have joined the race to the bottom. And what do you get when currencies are becoming worthless pieces of paper? Whichever ...

SimCorp partners with AIM

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... eight years to fully comply with the requirement. This is a happy compromise between the five years the US, UK and Switzerland wants and Germany's call for 10 years. And to hammer in the good tidings some more, the "sage of Omaha", Warren Buffett is ...

Banks to raise capital reserves

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... institutions. Bank regulators and central bankers, including chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, gathered in Basel Switzerland and proposed to increase the minimum common equity requirement for banks from 2 per cent to 4.5 per cent. In addition ...

Man charged in multi-million dollar fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... - including the J.P.Morgan employee - sent a fake request to transfer $150 million across four accounts in Greece, Switzerland and Hong Kong. The $150 million were held in J.P.Morgan. A mistake in the Greek transfer was what alerted the police about ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... doom and gloom, market's dismissed European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet's press conference in Basel, Switzerland. Monsieur Trichet stated that, 'We have a number of elements suggesting that we're approaching the moment where we're having ...

Treasury Group names distribution execs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2010
... Capital. She also held a number of roles in client management, marketing and sales at Barclays Global Investors in Switzerland. Mark Burgess, managing director at Treasury Group, highlighted the importance of these appointment earlier in the week, adding ...

Research finds country bias in pension asset allocation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... clear trend across all the different regions. For example, equities allocation can vary from as low as 27 per cent in Switzerland and a high of 72 per cent in Brazil. The most significant trend, said Goss, is the massive appeal of alternatives. Australian ...

No pleasing Mr. Market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... But hear ye, hear ye to what People's Bank of China Deputy Governor Zhu Min told the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. "We'll continue with current accommodative fiscal and monetary policy" in order to ensure that the 8 per cent to 9 per cent ...