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Denmark’s Ex-Finance Regulator Charged In Money Laundering Scandal

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Henrik Ramlau-Hansen, the former chair of Denmark’s financial regulator and former Danske Bank finance director, has been charged by Danish economic prosecutors. He resigned in 2018 at the same time a scathing Danske report from the regulator was issued. The money laundering went on from 2007 to 2015.

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Norwegian Regulators Say AML Measures Fell Short

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On of the main players in the scandals is Danske Bank , whose Estonian branch was used for some 200 billion euros ($227 billion) of suspicious payments between 2007 and 2015. It would be the worst possible end result of this discussion if banks would suddenly start to withdraw money from certain markets,” Tuominen said.

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How competitive are UK insurance markets?

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But how much competition in insurance markets is there? We find competition generally works well in UK life and non-life insurance markets, despite increases in life market concentration over the past 25 years. However, competition regulators have found practices in specific markets that harm consumers.

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What’s Changed in the 10 Years Since Quant Quake? Not Much.

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Ten years ago today, in the months leading to the start of the global recession, the ‘Quant Quake’ of August 10, 2007 shook Wall Street. But what’s changed since the Quant Crash of 2007? Have we found ways to protect the market from unexpected and extreme downturns driven, at least in part, by quants?

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Judge Rules Apple Needs To Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Cook’s China Claims

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pension fund, can sue over Cook's 2018 comment that while the iPhone was facing sales pressure in some markets, China was not among them. The lowered forecast was the first one Apple reported since its 2007 launch in Cupertino, California, and shares fell 10 percent the next day, wiping out $74 billion in market value.

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A fistful of dollars: transmission of global funding shocks to emerging markets

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Emerging markets (EMs) have become more exposed to the global financial cycle in recent years. In a recent paper , we propose the use of money market rates to measure transmission of global funding shocks to EMs. Money markets have been shown to play an important role in transmission of global funding conditions.

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Chinese Officials Join US Politicians In Suddenly Falling Out Of Love With Big Tech 

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Published reports indicate that China’s central bank and banking, securities and foreign-exchange regulators summoned Ant Group executives this past weekend to discuss official concerns about the firm. subprime mortgage industry’s collapse and the 2007-08 Great Recession. Reuters quoted central bank Vice Gov. A Growing Crackdown .

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