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As worldwide consumption of mobile data and e-commerce services continues to grow exponentially, the payments landscape is being transformed by electronic and mobile payments. In particular, mobile offers huge opportunities. Understanding of this fast-moving market is critical, but it is being hampered by a lack of accurate market data.

Big increase in regional private equity activity; particularly attractive metrics in Brazil.

London should be wary of the Duchy’s ambitions to become Europe’s RMB hub.

Short-term rates must rise; Equities to reverse 20-year underperformance

The US Treasury released a report on October 3 addressing the debt ceiling and the potential effects of an unprecedented default. The report warns that "credit markets could freeze, the value of the dollar could plummet and US interest rates could skyrocket, potentially resulting in a financial crisis and recession that could echo the events of 2008 or worse”.

High hopes for sweeping reform; Li says country is at crucial juncture

Exchange-based trading of currency derivatives is growing rapidly, according to data published by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).

As use of social media becomes more widespread as a tool to disseminate and garner FX market information, concern is mounting about the threat it poses when combined with high-frequency algorithmic trading.

"The first person to hire me in the 1980s hired me to buy bonds for him because he simply couldn’t take the pain of doing it himself any more. He had been investing in bonds for 10 years and had never seen anything go up"

Huishan Dairy deal shows how the trend for multiple bookrunners is out of control.

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it." Could these inspiring words from former Wall Street crook now motivational speaker Jordan Belfort persuade director Martin Scorsese to hurry up editing the first cut of his film of Belfort’s drug-fuelled rise and fall as head of boiler-room brokerage Stratton Oakmont? ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ had been slated to open in November – perfect timing for its star, Leonardo DiCaprio, playing Belfort, to make his run for the Oscar that has so far unaccountably eluded him.

The new free-trade zone in Shanghai is much more likely to invigorate Hong Kong as a financial sector than threaten it.