March 24, 2013
Cyprus Bailout Problems Send Worried Consumers To ATMs

The European Central Bank has given Cyprus until today, Monday, March 25, to pull together $6 billion in earnest money needed to secure emergency liquidity aid from the EU and...

March 19, 2013
Fifth Third Bancorp Announces Ten Percent Increase in Quarterly Cash...

    Fifth Third Bancorp (Nasdaq: FITB) today declared a cash dividend on its common shares of $0.11 for the first quarter of 2013. The dividend is payable on Thursday,...

February 17, 2013
How Owning Bitcoin Is Owning An ETF On The Whole...

By Tony Gallippi, co-founder and CEO of BitPay, Inc. The Bitcoin economy is grassroots, techie, voluntarist, young, and fragmented. Investors looking to invest in the space are finding a lack...

February 11, 2013
Out With the Old, In With The New

Peter Drucker, the father of modern management and perhaps the most influential thinker on that subject once said, “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.”...

January 30, 2013
Regulatory Interventions Involving Depository Accounts: Pressing on the Balloon

The checking account—aka demand depository account or current account—is one of the most common financial services products. In developed countries almost every household has one of these. Banks provide a...

January 23, 2013
National Bank of Malawi Picks Misys For Basel II Compliance

The National Bank of Malawi has announced i twill be implementing Misys Global Risk – Regulatory Compliance across its business to enable it to comply with Basel II. Misys’ solution...

November 19, 2012
First National Innovation Brokers Introduces Virtual Currency

Swiftcoin is a new virtual currency that, much like Bitcoin, provides its users with secure and anonymous method of payment. Also like Bitcoin, it is only exchanged electronically – through...

November 15, 2012
Relieving Banks from Toxic or Impaired Assets: The EU State...

Posted by D. Daniel Sokol Yassine Boudghene (DG Comp) and Stan Maes (Leiden) discuss Relieving Banks from Toxic or Impaired Assets: The EU State Aid Policy Framework. ABSTRACT: The financial...

September 21, 2012
E.U.: State aid: Commission approves restructuring aid to Austrian bank...

The European Commission has concluded that restructuring aid granted by Austria to the Austrian bank Österreichische Volksbanken AG (ÖVAG) is in line with state aid rules. Public support was granted...