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Wells Fargo ends forced arbitration for sexual harassment claims. Will other firms follow?
Erika Karp, founder of RIA Cornerstone Capital Group in New York City, also praised the change, adding, “Sexual and gender-based violence being tolerated in the workplace is uniquely repulsive. The idea of a crime victim not being heard by virtue of the industry in...
Generali Global Assistance rolls out self-service identity fraud alert function
Generali Global Assistance (GGA) has added a self-service fraud alert function to its identity and cyber protection platform, Iris. Read more
Gold Hits 7-Year High Amid Ongoing Coronavirus Concerns
“For gold really to move, it would be some kind of exogenous shock, which might push it higher,” Rhona O’Connell, INTL FCStone head of market analysis for EMEA and Asia Regions, told Kitco News. Read more
New products help institutions take exposure to surging bitcoin
CoinShares has been offering exchange-traded products on bitcoin since 2015. The CME launched bitcoin futures at the end of that year, saw average daily volume reach over 6,500 contracts in bitcoin futures in 2019 and decided that liquidity was sufficient to offer...
GRAINS-Wheat set for biggest weekly gain in nearly 3 months
“There is support wheat prices as Australia earlier this week said its production was lower than the previous forecast,” said Darin Friedrichs, senior Asia commodities analyst at brokerage INTL FCStone. Read more
Deere Stock is Soaring, But is it Time to Pump the Brakes?
Darin Friedrichs, senior Asia commodity analyst at INTL FCSTONE in Shanghai states, “Agriculture is one of those things that the U.S. side really has to address…basically over the past year and a half, China has been really aggressive in trying to diversify where...
Sterling Trading Tech release custom margin rates and enhanced VAR for real-time risk engine
The Sterling Risk Engine provides advanced analytics in a RaaS solution utilising sophisticated quantitative and big data techniques to manage risk in real-time for hundreds of portfolios allowing brokerages and clearing firms to easily monitor market and credit risk....
How central bank digital currencies will take over the world
Once central bank digital currency supplants physical cash, then governments could have the power – if not the legal right in many countries – to view and even control and censor who can use their own money - Meltem Demirors, CoinShares Read more
MELTEM DEMIRORS ON LIFE, LAUGHS AND BITCOIN
In a one-one-one interview Meltem Demirors, Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, talks about he upraising and career, her discovery of Bitcoin and the top issues dominating the digital assets news cycle. Watch the full interveiew here
Tesla, gold and the dollar soar—an ‘everything rally’ has some stock-market investors fearing how it all ends
Fresh stimulus from China and an accommodative Fed may not provide much comfort, said Vincent Deluard, global macro strategist at INTL FCStone. Read more