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Natixis posted solid third quarter results on Wednesday, with a 21% rise in net income, partly driven by bigger asset management revenues, but its capital markets business dropped sharply year on year. -
The delayed Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect programme, when it finally launches, will be a milestone development for the Chinese A share market and will offer new opportunities to yield-starved investors from Europe and Japan, says French asset manager Amundi.
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The board of Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the world's oldest bank, is considering a capital increase to cover its entire €2.1bn shortfall, flagged up by the comprehensive assessment last week.
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‘Credible’ is the word many are using to describe the European Central Bank’s Asset Quality Review and the European Banking Authority’s stress tests, writes Graham Bippart.
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US stock exchanges have come under fire for providing preferential treatment to high frequency trading firms in recent years years as scores of investors learned their trades could be undercut by computerised algorithms. SEC whistleblower Haim Bodek lifts the lid on the SEC's recent approval of new order types at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
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The Bank of England (BoE) will begin work next year figuring out how to provide Islamic banks with Shariah-compliant liquidity facilities. Even without knowing what rates or requirements the prospective facilities will involve, the UK’s Islamic lenders — long starved of Shariah-compliant liquid assets — say anything will be better than holding cash.
