Search Results for: Switzerland
Associations challenging crypto Ads ban to proceed with lawsuit
June 29th, 2018
Facebook’s recent decision to partially lift the ban on crypto ads will not stop a planned legal action against the measure. Crypto associations and businesses from several countries announced earlier this year their intentions to sue internet giants imposing ...
Investors warnings to avoid unathorized financial services firms
June 28th, 2018
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – FINMA), Sweden (Finansinspektionen), Austria (Financial Market Authority – FMA), Spain (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores – CNMV), Hong Kong ...
Central bankers claim bitcoin could break the internet
June 21st, 2018
Who’s right about bitcoin: the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) or cryptocurrency advocates? The Bank of International Settlements on Sunday said bitcoin is “a poor substitute for the solid institutional backing of money.” Critics in the crypto world say ...
Beware of unauthorized companies offering investment and financial services
June 12th, 2018
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Italy (National Commission for Companies and the Stock Exchange – Consob), Austria (Financial Market Authority – FMA), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – FINMA), Luxembourg (Commission ...
Strategic partnership between Worldline and SIX consolidating European payments
May 24th, 2018
Worldline’s $2.75 billion deal to buy the payments unit of Swiss exchange operator SIX Group, announced on Tuesday, could herald more consolidation in the industry, SIX’s chairman told Reuters. France’s Worldline beat competition from U.S. bidders to land the ...
Workers in OECD countries pay one quarter of wages in taxes
May 4th, 2018
Workers in OECD countries paid just over a quarter of their gross wages in tax on average in 2017, with just over half of countries seeing small increases in the personal average tax rate, according to a new OECD ...
Beware of companies offering investments without the required authorisations
May 2nd, 2018
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Italy (Consob), Luxembourg (Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier – CSSF), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – FINMA), Hong Kong (Securities and Futures Commission – SFC) ...
Supervisory authorities around the world warn for unauthorised financial services firms
April 13th, 2018
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – FINMA), Hong Kong (Securities and Futures Commission – SFC), Austria (Financial Market Authority – FMA), France (Autoritè des Marches Financiers ...
Financial supervisory authorities from around the world issued investor protection warnings
March 28th, 2018
The supervisory authorities of the Italy (CONSOB), United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), France (Autoritè des Marchers Financiers – AMF), Ireland (Central Bank of Ireland), British Columbia (British Columbia Securities Commission – BCSC), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory ...
These are the Countries that EU trades with the most
March 27th, 2018
In 2017, the United States (€631 billion, or 16.9% of total EU trade in goods) and China (€573 bn, or 15.3%) continued to be the two main goods trading partners of the European Union (EU), well ahead of Switzerland(€261 ...
