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Klarna - Europe’s Newest Bank Is Born

Date 20/06/2017

Klarna is proud to announce that it has been granted a full banking licence by Finansinspektionen, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority.

Nano Dimension Opened Trade On The Occasion Of Institutional Capital Raising And Three Years Since Joining TASE

Date 20/06/2017

Nano Dimension joined the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) in 2014, through a merger with a shell company valued at NIS 33 million. One year later, when valued at approximately NIS 200 million, Nano Dimension was listed for OTC trading.  Eight months later, the company was listed for trading on NASDAQ, and six months later, the company raised a total of NIS 52 million in the U.S. to attain a company value of NIS 270 million.

A Fine Balance - Speech By Mark Carney, Governor Of The Bank Of England, The Mansion House, London

Date 20/06/2017

My Lord Mayor, Chancellor, ladies and gentlemen.

In recent weeks, we have been reminded of fine balances: in decisions, in parliament, in life. The fine balance between hope and despair.

Clearstream May Report Shows ETF Assets Topping €300 Billion

Date 20/06/2017

• Custody business for European ETFs grew by 25 percent over past 12 months
• Vestima platform simplifies complex cross-border transactions for ETF issuers

Housing And Financial Stability, Speech By Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer At The DNB-Riksbank Macroprudential Conference Series, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Date 20/06/2017

It is often said that real estate is at the center of almost every financial crisis. That is not quite accurate, for financial crises can, and do, occur without a real estate crisis. But it is true that there is a strong link between financial crises and difficulties in the real estate sector. In their research about financial crises, Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff document that the six major historical episodes of banking crises in advanced economies since the 1970s were all associated with a housing bust. Plus, the drop in house prices in a bust is often bigger following credit-fueled housing booms, and recessions associated with housing busts are two to three times more severe than other recessions. And, perhaps most significantly, real estate was at the center of the most recent crisis.

Form3 Partners With Starling Bank To Provide Real-Time Access To Faster Payments

Date 20/06/2017

Form3, the cloud based end-to-end secure standard for global payments processing, today announced a partnership with Starling Bank, the first mobile-only bank to launch a new current account in the UK and 13th member of Faster Payments. This will further enhance the Form3 Payments-as-a-Service platform by providing an end-to-end managed service for UK real-time payments. For the first time in the UK, this will allow clients a real-time Faster Payments experience using a bank service.

UK’s Serious Fraud Office Charges Barclays Regarding Matters Which Arose In The Context Of Barclays’ Capital Raisings In 2008

Date 20/06/2017

The Serious Fraud Office ("SFO") has today charged Barclays PLC (“Barclays”) with:

• two offences of conspiring with certain former senior officers and employees of Barclays to commit fraud by false representations relating to two advisory services agreements entered into with Qatar Holding LLC in June and October 2008, contrary to Sections 1-2 of the Fraud Act 2006, and Section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977 (the “ASA Charges”); and
• one offence of unlawful financial assistance contrary to section 151(1) of the Companies Act 1985 in relation to a USD 3 billion loan (the “Loan”) provided to the State of Qatar in November 2008 (together with the ASA Charges, the “Charges”).

UK's Serious Fraud Office Charges In Barclays Qatar Capital Raising Case

Date 20/06/2017

The Serious Fraud Office has today charged Barclays Plc and four individuals with conspiracy to commit fraud and the provision of unlawful financial assistance contrary to the Companies Act 1985.

UK's Financial Conduct Authority Asks For Feedback On Consumer Access To Insurance

Date 20/06/2017

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is seeking views and evidence of the challenges firms face in providing travel insurance for consumers who have, or have had, cancer, and the challenges for these consumers in accessing insurance. The paper is also looking at the reasons for pricing differences in premiums quoted. 

uXchange Launched To Trade Managed Funds

Date 20/06/2017

MA Operator, the fintech for financial advisers, today announced the addition of managed fund exchange platform uXchange to its offering.