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Breach at IRS Exposes Tax Returns
May 27th, 2015
Thieves used agency’s online services to get information for about 100,000 households The Internal Revenue Service said Tuesday that identity thieves used one of its online services to obtain prior-year tax return information for about 100,000 U.S. households, a ...
Binary options – potential changes in regulation
May 26th, 2015
Binary options allow consumers to speculate on the short term movement in price of financial instruments such as shares. Find out how the FCA may start regulating them. The FCA does not currently regulate binary options You do not ...
FTSE starts transition to include China A Shares in global benchmarks
May 26th, 2015
FTSE announces transition to include China A Shares in global indexes Two new transitional emerging markets indexes launched Approximately 5% initial A Shares weighting in the FTSE Emerging inclusion indexes, rising to 32% when China A Shares become fully ...
Russia Lifts Bitcoin Ban
May 25th, 2015
Since the middle of the last year, the Russian government has been discussing the possible ban and criminalization of digital currency. Some Bitcoin related sites have even been blocked in a move that forced many of the Bitcoin Russian startups to ...
Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) Decisions
May 21st, 2015
The Hellenic Capital Market Commission (HCMC) decided during its Board of Directors’ meeting, on 14.5.2015, the following: The approval of the offer document regarding the mandatory bid of PIRAEUS BANK SA to the shareholders of the company TRASTOR REIC, according to ...
eXtremeDB Financial Edition DBMS Powers Innovation in TradeStation’s Next-Gen Order Execution System
May 21st, 2015
With rollout approaching for its order execution system incorporating the eXtremeDB® Financial Edition database management system (DBMS), TradeStation is finding that the specialized DBMS for financial systems from McObject® delivers the expected performance boost – and that eliminating data management latency makes ...
Six Banks Pay $5.8 Billion, Five Plead Guilty to Market Rigging
May 20th, 2015
Six of the world’s biggest banks will pay $5.8 billion and five of them agreed to plead guilty to charges tied to a currency-rigging probe as they seek to wind down almost half a decade of enforcement actions. Citicorp, ...
Bitcoin: A Remarkable Innovation and Its Limitations
May 20th, 2015
My own sense is that popular interest in Bitcoin peaked about 12-18 months ago. Perhaps that interest will return. But for now, my sense is that Bitcoin represents a remarkable–indeed, a breakthrough–innovation which nonetheless is beginning to show its limitations. Rainer ...
Law Firm Survey: Financial Services Professionals Reveals Widespread Disregard for Ethics
May 20th, 2015
Efforts to Reform Wall Street and Fleet Street May be Faltering Labaton Sucharow LLP, which established the nation’s first practice exclusively dedicated to representing SEC whistleblowers, today announced the results of its collaborative survey with the University of Notre ...
Industry not prepared for MIFID II product governance challenges
May 20th, 2015
MIFID II will bring a significant increase in product governance responsibilities for all parties involved in the selling of an investment product. Under the new proposals both manufacturers of investment products and distributors will be responsible for the products ...
