April 18, 2014--China's economy grew at its slowest pace in 18 months in the first quarter of 2014, official data showed on Wednesday, with signs of waning momentum already prompting limited government action to steady the world's second-largest economy.
IMF report-Malaysia: Financial Sector Assessment Program Financial Sector Performance, Vulnerabilities and Derivatives-Technical Note
April 15, 2014--EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Strong regulatory oversight, coupled with efforts to restructure the banking sector in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis in 1997-1998, has supported rapid growth in Malaysia's financial sector over the last decade.1 The banking sector has undergone
consolidation while competition has increased following measures implemented under the
Financial Sector Master Plan 2001-2010.
European Parliament adopts financial markets rules
April 16, 2014--The European Parliament adopted new rules Tuesday to tighten the regulation of financial markets in order to stop rampant speculation, including on foodstuffs.
DeAWM completes move to become one of Europe's largest providers of physical ETFs
April 16, 2014--Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DeAWM) has become one of Europe's largest providers of direct, physical replication exchange traded funds (ETFs) following the completion of an ambitious programme to switch 18 db X-trackers equity ETFs from synthetic to physical replication, as well as the launch of several new direct replication offerings.
ETF tracks medium-sized German companies from traditional industrial sectors March 27, 2014-- A new equity index fund issued by ComStage has been tradable on Xetra since Thursday.
ETF name: ComStage MDAX(R) TR UCITS ETF
Asset class: equity index ETF
ISIN: LU1033693638
Total expense ratio: 0.30 percent
Final standard for measuring and controlling large exposures published by the Basel Committee
April 15, 2014--The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has today published a final standard that sets out a supervisory framework for measuring and controlling large exposures,w hich will take effect from 1 January 2019.
