Month: August 2019

A head of fixed income at IFS Securities allegedly shorted Treasuries in an off-book transaction that lost at least $10 million, according to sources, potentially crippling the Atlanta-based broker-dealer. Keith Wakefield, former managing director at IFS Securities, was fired after the alleged illegal trades. The firm did not fully have the funds to settle those
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Chuck Robbins, CEO of Cisco Ashlee Espinal | CNBC Check out the companies making headlines after the bell: Cisco fell nearly 8% in after-hours trading after announcing better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings and weaker-than-expected guidance. The enterprise technology company reported adjusted fourth-quarter earnings per share of 83 cents on revenue of $13.43 billion. Analysts had expected adjusted
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Harrods managing director Michael Ward says the UK’s business rates tax system is “broken”. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images for Harrods) Getty More than 50 among the UK’s largest retailers have asked the government to fix the “broken” business rates system.   The retailers, including Harrods, Marks and Spencer, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Boots, have written
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Ever since Bitcoin had that incredible rally back in 2017, there has been a lot of talk among big-ticket investors to find a way to bring the cryptocurrency into the world of mainstream investing. It was around that time that the idea of Bitcoin-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs) was first floated. Ultimately, the Securities and Exchange
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Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange. Brendan McDermid | Reuters A trade organization that oversees the dissemination of trades at the NYSE said Monday’s trading glitch was due to a “network component failure” at the the exchange’s data center in Mahwah, New Jersey. The Consolidated Tape Association (CTA) said the
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The SEC has filed an emergency lawsuit against Veritaseum (VERI) and its founder Reginald Middleton with the New York Eastern District Court. The action aims to prevent Mr. Middleton from spending $8 million USD raised by the company in an ICO. “Knowingly Misled” VERI Investors The SEC alleges that Mr. Middleton “knowingly misled” investors about
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Jessica Sherman, associate vice president of affordable housing at Douglaston Development. Douglaston Development Jessica Sherman, associate vice president of affordable housing with the real estate firm Douglaston Development, has made it her mission to improve the quality of life for low-income New Yorkers. Recently named a Crain’s New York “Rising Star,” Sherman has helped her
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The different growth trajectories of two Missouri-based broker-dealers ultimately led to the deal in which St. Louis-based Stifel Financial Corp. will buy Kansas City-based George K. Baum & Co. Stifel announced Monday it had reached a definitive agreement to acquire Baum. “This is definitely a bittersweet decision for sure,” Baum president and CEO Jonathan E.
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Cryptocurrency criminals have taken in an estimated $4.3 billion USD in 2019, according to CipherTrace. CipherTrace, a cryptosecurity company based in Silicon Valley, has released its Q2 2019 Cryptocurrency Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Report, which is a detailed overview of major cryptocurrency thefts, scams, and fraud around the world. The firm’s Q1 report estimated that cybercriminals
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The lounge and kitchen area at Alexandria LaunchLabs at the Alexandria Center, One Kendall Square, in Cambridge, Mass. © 2019 Andy Caulfield With technological advancement occurring at an increasingly breakneck pace, it’s natural the number of life science and technology innovation clusters is growing as well. These clusters result from the increasing recognition that innovators
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Market data from the Winklevoss twins-founded crypto exchange Gemini is being added to eight crypto indices offered by CF Benchmarks. Formerly called Crypto Facilities, CF Benchmarks’ eight reference products include four indices and reference rates provided for CME Group, which currently offers a bitcoin futures product: the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate and CME CF Bitcoin Real
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