FxWirePro: Macro risks conducive for EM currency space, especially for magnitude in TRY vols

Jun 16, 2016 12:04 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Macro levels risks continue to drive global financial markets, with the Brexit June 23rd referendum on membership in the European Union likely to result in emerging market currency depreciation should a Leave vote prevail,...

Why is chemical castration being used on offenders in some countries?

Jun 16, 2016 11:52 am UTC| Insights & Views Law

Following a horrific act of sexual violence against a 14-year-old girl, the president of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, recently signed a decree into law, which, among other things, authorised the death penalty for convicted...

Briferendum Series

Undecided on the referendum? These are the three questions to ask yourself in the voting booth

Jun 16, 2016 11:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

If there is one thing people can agree on as they prepare to vote on the UKs EU membership: comprehensive, comprehensible and trustworthy information is in short supply. Every day, the quality of the debate sinks to a new...

Briferendum Series

Hard Evidence: analysis shows extent of press bias towards Brexit

Jun 16, 2016 11:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics

The Suns declaration of support for the Leave campaign in the EU referendum might seem entirely predictable. After all, the paper has been at the forefront of EU-bashing for decades, most memorably in its Up Yours Delors...

Bothered by a brothel? How sex work can improve your neighbourhood

Jun 16, 2016 11:12 am UTC| Insights & Views Life

The sex industry, specifically sex work and prostitution, has long been perceived and regulated as a dirty and disorderly feature of residential communities. The stereotypical, and unfair, view of sex workers is that they...

BoJ holds fire amid sluggish global growth and anaemic inflation, sends yen soaring

Jun 16, 2016 10:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks Commentary

The Bank of Japan kept policy unchanged at its meeting earlier on Thursday. The central bank held its key interest rate at minus 0.1 percent and kept the annual target for expanding the monetary base at 80 trillion yen...

FxWirePro: Is it liquidity or funding cost, what is driving CNH lower rates?

Jun 16, 2016 08:14 am UTC| Insights & Views

The front end CNH rates remain low amid ample liquidity. The switch to the averaging method in required reserve calculation for onshore RMB deposits placed by offshore banks may still be having an impact, in discouraging...