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South Korea bans all new cryptocurrency sales
September 29th, 2017
South Korea’s financial regulator on Friday said it will ban raising money through all forms of virtual currencies, a move that follows similar restrictions in China on initial coin offerings. The Financial Services Commission said all kinds of initial ...
Canadian Securities Regulators Announce Ban On Binary Options
September 29th, 2017
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announce the implementation of Multilateral Instrument 91-102 Prohibition of Binary Options, which makes it illegal to advertise, offer, sell or otherwise trade binary options shorter than 30 days with any individual. “Binary options are ...
FBI arrests Israeli binary options CEO
September 27th, 2017
The CEO of an Israeli binary options company accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars was doubtless surprised to find herself surrounded by FBI agents shortly after arriving in the United States last week. Binary options is ...
Deloitte cyber-attack: Is your firm safe?
September 27th, 2017
Cybersecurity is a pervasive issue in the digital age, and no organisation is completely risk-free. So how did this happen to Deloitte, and how can firms protect their data and prevent similar cyber-attacks? Big Four firm Deloitte suffered a ...
U.S. Regulator is monitoring the impact of Hurricane Irma on investors and capital markets
September 14th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission is closely monitoring of the impact of Hurricane Irma on investors and capital markets, and continues to monitor the impacts of Hurricane Harvey. “As we are doing in areas affected by Hurricane Harvey, the ...
Comparing Forex Brokers in 2017: Not As Easy As Before
September 4th, 2017
There’s an abundance of newcomer forex broker coming into the market with each passing year. 2017 is proving itself especially difficult to compare forex brokers in. Not only there are a lot more fx brokers than in previous years, ...
UK’s financial regulator warns for unauthorised and clone firms
August 16th, 2017
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK’s financial regulator regulator for 56,000 financial services firms and financial markets in the UK and the prudential regulator for over 18,000 of those firms, has issued announcements to warn investors and public ...
Singapore warns of potential risks of virtual currency-related investment schemes
August 10th, 2017
The Commercial Affairs Department (CAD) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) have observed the emergence of initial coin (or token) offerings (ICOs), and other investment schemes involving digital tokens, in Singapore. Members of the public are advised to ...
Investigators found by accident a hacker claiming he pocketed millions of dollars in Bitcoins
July 24th, 2017
Pennsylvania police, hunting for stolen laptops, say they stumbled on $40 million bitcoin scam Law enforcement in Bucks County, Pa. likely didn’t think they were dealing with a dark Web criminal pro when Theodore Price’s name first popped on ...
Projecting the Price of Bitcoin
June 7th, 2017
The wild card in cryptocurrencies is the role of Big Institutional Money. I’ve taken the liberty of preparing a projection of bitcoin’s price action going forward: You see the primary dynamic is continued skepticism from the mainstream, which owns ...
