Plus you will hear from the social Networks Global chief diversity officer. She tells us how facebook plans to double the number of female employees globally over the next five years, and why the company is setting such an ambitious target in the middle of a media firestorm. But first to our top story. Facebooks plans to create its own cryptocurrency, libra, is not getting love from lawmakers. And you can add fed chair Jerome Powell to the list. Take a listen to what he told the House Financial Services committee on wednesday. While the project sponsors Public Benefits including improved Financial Access for consumers, libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, Consumer Protection and financial stability. These are concerns that should be thoroughly and publicly addressed before proceeding. Facebook has a couple billion plus users so you have for the first time the possibility of a very broad adoption. If there were problems there associated with money laun
Employees globally over the next five years, and why the company is setting such an ambitious target in the middle of a media firestorm. But first to our top story. Facebooks plans to create its own cryptocurrency, libra, is not getting love from lawmakers. And you can add fed chair Jerome Powell to the list. Take a listen to what he told the House Financial Services committee on wednesday. While the project sponsors Public Benefits including improved Financial Access for consumers, libra raises many serious concerns regarding privacy, money laundering, Consumer Protection and financial stability. These are concerns that should be thoroughly and publicly addressed before proceeding. Facebook has a couple billion plus users so you have for the first time the possibility of a very broad adoption. If there were problems there associated with money laundering, terrorist financing, any of the things that we are all focused on, including the company, they would rise to systemically important
Africa 54. 00 of 55. 00 leaders attending the recent African Union summit in nigeria has signed an agreement to create the african Continental Free Trade Area the proposal under discussion for 4 years advanced after Regional Power nigeria was convinced to support it. As one of the remaining holdouts on the continents agreement which would eliminate most tariffs has been ratified in the National Parliaments of about half of the African Union members the unions trade and industry commissioner predicted that the area would become operational by july of 2020 that gathered elders also advanced plans for pan african Payment System to maximize efficiencies within the trading bloc and reduce trade barriers created by the region scarcity of foreign exchange. And japan has launched another round in the back and forth with south korea over new restrictions on export materials used in semiconductors and smartphone displays japanese trade and industry minister here a show. Tokyo was not thinking at
Amazon, the latest in the eu cross hairs, facing a probe over possible anticompetitive Business Practices. Plus, ralph lauren and le le strauss in the red, both downgraded to sell at Goldman Sachs. And a tariff fueled strategy shift. Apple reportedly set to begin trial production of air pods outside of china and into vietnam. Another case of big tech under International Scrutiny amazon facing a formal eu antitrust investigation into its dealings with third party merchants. European competition commissioner margaret says based on the commissions preliminary fact finding, amazon appears to use competitively Sensitive Information about marketplace sellers, products and transactions on the marketplace and response amazon issued a statement saying, quote, we will cooperate fully with the European Commission and continue working hard to support businesses of all size and help them grow. This is the last thing some of these companies i would point out that they just brought an agreement with
I judge banks message to the world is that they are undergoing a restructuring a routine restructuring like the ones that have happened every quarter for the past few years in order to return the business to profitability in this current iteration davie is attempting to shed its Equities Investments its trading business and shift over to primarily a lending business now on the surface this move makes perfect sense but lets dig a little deeper remember when bear stearns underwent a restructuring translation they are in a full on crisis mode now the debts of Lehman Brothers and bear stearns were quick and painless but the coming the rise of Deutsche Bank has been long drawn out and very painful and recent times daveys Investment Banking division has been among the largest in the walls comparable to goldman j. P. Morgan and they have led book writers and notable i. P. O. s such as go daddy and aston martin and ali baba. And more but today with the stock trading at 7. 00 per share that is