With the aim of developing a blockchain-based application to improve the regulatory reporting of mortgage transactions, a partnership has been formed between New York-based software company R3 CEV and Britain’s financial watchdog and two large banks. Together with the Financial Conduct Authority, the Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and another global bank which did…
Noting the equivalent of doubling the population of China and India, the world’s population is anticipated to grow by 2.5 billion in just over the next thirty years. There would be considerable strain on world business that would be put on it in addition to an unprecedented demand for goods and services created by the…
According to a projection from risk modeling software company AIR Worldwide, combined insured losses of $20 billion to $65 billion could have already been created by Hurricane Irma. The losses and devastation in the hurricane hit areas in the United States and some selected islands in the Caribbean were included in the estimates made by…
The finance ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Spain said in a joint letter that instead of only taxing on the profits made as of now, they want digital multinationals like Amazon and Google to be taxed in Europe based on their revenues. There are many countries in Europe that are frustrated at the low…
With the aim to allow the industry to better compete in a market that’s dominated by Indian manufacturers, Russia wants its biggest diamond miner to work more closely with the country’s top gem cutters. According to Deputy Finance Minister Alexey Moiseev. the government wants Alrosa PSJC to offer more favorable terms to cutters including Kristall Production Corp.,…
Following a racially divisive social-media campaign in South Africa, Bell Pottinger LLP has put itself up for sale after being expelled from the U.K.’s public-relations industry body and losing clients. Financial adviser BDO has been hired “to look at all options regarding the future of the business,” by the London-based PR firm, founded by Margaret…
Revamping a stalled effort to showcase its mobile software for users in emerging markets, Google is teaming with China’s Xiaomi Corp. to resurrect its Android One smartphone program for India. The first under the Android One banner, the Xiaomi’s Mi A1 dual-camera device goes on sale Tuesday for 14,999 rupees ($234). Noting a persistent weakness when compared…
Issuing the strongest regulatory challenge so far to the burgeoning market for digital token sales, China’s central bank has asked issuing the strongest regulatory challenge so far to the burgeoning market for digital token sales and declared that initial coin offerings are illegal. Following this, bitcoin tumbled the most since July. It will strictly punish…
Application for a U.S. initial public offering was filed by Roku Inc., the maker of devices and software for streaming video that was an early challenger to traditional home-entertainment providers. Noting that the proposed value of the offering is a placeholder used to calculate fees and will probably change, the company listed an initial offering…
For its 90 million motorbike and scooter riders, Vietnam wants to design and make cars. aiming to roll out the first car in 24 months, plans to invest up to $3.5 billion to set up a manufacturing and research and development complex, were announced by the country’s largest real-estate company Vingroup JSC. Vingroup Vice Chairwoman Le…
