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Data protection fines hit £100m during first 18 months of GDPR
January 23rd, 2020
European countries have imposed approximately €114 million (£97 million) in data protection fines on businesses since revamped laws came into force in May 2018. Regulators have received 160,000 data breach reports, with UK firms third-most reported across Europe Approximately ...
Why a flu outbreak in China can spook global markets
January 23rd, 2020
When people talk about empires of the past, they generally mean Rome and Britain. But the biggest and in some ways most interesting empire was built and run by the Mongols in the 13th and 14th centuries. At its ...
U.S. dollar rises as concerns about geopolitical risks ease
January 8th, 2020
The U.S. dollar rose in late trading on Tuesday as investors’ concerns over tensions between the United States and Iran eased. The United States killed Major General Qassem Soleimani, commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Quds Force, in ...
Gold’s outlook for 2020
January 3rd, 2020
This article is an overview of the economic conditions that will drive the gold price in 2020 and beyond. The turn of the credit cycle, the effect on government deficits and how they are to be financed are addressed. ...
Internet provider faces big GDPR fine for lax call centre checks
December 30th, 2019
A German internet service provider faces a €9.6m ($10.6m; £8m) fine after being accused of failing to carry out tough enough customer ID checks. Germany’s data protection watchdog said anyone who called 1&1 Telecom could get extensive personal information ...
Parliament keeps up pressure to tax digital economy more fairly
December 20th, 2019
MEPs press EU to engage fully in international efforts to tax the digital economy, while still being prepared to act at EU level if global plans fail. As international talks at OECD level on taxation systems for the digital ...
Facebook’s transfer of EU citizen data to US legal, says EU court adviser
December 20th, 2019
Tools used by hundreds of thousands of companies to transfer EU citizens’ data abroad are legal, an adviser to Europe’s top court has ruled, marking a major win for Facebook in a long-running court case. Austrian privacy campaigner and ...
Post-Brexit planning
December 20th, 2019
Brexit will be done by the end of next month, when trade negotiations with the EU will begin. Importantly, Britain’s negotiating position has strengthened immeasurably, and the new government is not afraid to use it. This Conservative government ...
iSignthis shares its Annual Risk Classification of Customers
December 18th, 2019
iSignthis Ltd (ASX: ISX|DE: TA8)(“the Company”) is required under European Anti Money Laundering Regulation to classify its customers by risk levels (low, medium or high-risk) for its wholly-owned, prudentially regulated electronic-money services subsidiary, iSignthis eMoney Ltd. These classifications of ...
Plan for an EU financial transaction tax of 0.2 pct
December 12th, 2019
The plans drawn up by German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz for a new financial transaction tax in 10 European Union states, provide for a tax of 0.2 percent of the transaction value of purchases of shares in large companies. ...
