August 25, 2016/WFE The World Federation of Exchanges (“WFE”), which represents more than 200 market infrastructure providers including exchanges and CCPs, today published the results of a survey of Financial Market Infrastructures (FMIs) regarding their use of, and perspectives on, Distributed Ledger Technologies (“DLT”), including blockchain. Highlights of the survey, […]

August 24, 2016/IMF The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today approved a three-year extended arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) for Jordan for an amount equivalent to SDR 514.65 million (about US$723 million, or 150 percent of Jordan’s quota) to support the country’s economic and financial […]

August 19, 2016/MasterCard Jennifer Stalzer Chinese Pianist Lang Lang played the night away on Thursday, August 18th at an exclusive Mastercard concert in Corcovado. Originally, the performance was to take place outside at the renowned Christ the Redeemer, however, it was relocated indoors to the Paineiras Hotel due to weather conditions. […]