Swiss bank UBS to appeal after fined 4.5 billion euros in French tax fraud case
February 21st, 2019
A French court found Swiss bank UBS AG guilty of illegally soliciting clients and laundering the proceeds of tax evasion, ordering it to pay 4.5 billion euros ($5.1 billion) in penalties. Shares in the Swiss bank fell as much ...
ESMA renews Binary Options prohibition
February 21st, 2019
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has agreed to renew the prohibition of the marketing, distribution or sale of binary options to retail clients, in effect since 2 July 2018, for a further three-month period. ESMA has carefully ...
European stocks edge lower
February 21st, 2019
European stocks were slightly lower Thursday morning, after a flurry of poorly received corporate earnings reports. The pan-European Stoxx 600 edged down around 0.2 percent during mid-morning deals, with most sectors and major bourses in negative territory. Europe’s banking ...
DevOps Engineer
February 20th, 2019
Duties & Responsibilities Manage deployments of mission critical systems. Configure and deploy servers. Manage and deploy micro services. Administration and support of the production environments. Provide functional and technical specifications for new software systems and deployments. Provide suggestions and ...
Why has the European Commission not investigated Lux Leaks tax deals?
February 18th, 2019
Almost five years ago, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists published its Lux Leaks investigation, exposing how some of the world’s largest corporations cycled billions of dollars through Luxembourg so as to avoid paying huge amounts of tax — ...
Pound rises after three weeks of losses
February 18th, 2019
Sterling drifted higher on Monday after registering three consecutive weeks of losses as investors waited for the outcome of Brexit talks between Britain and the European Union. British Prime Minister Theresa May plans to speak to every EU leader ...
Baltic Banking Service 100% acquired by iSignthis
February 15th, 2019
Highlights BBS expected to contribute positively to 2019 EBIT Acquires SEPA CORE and INSTANT network capabilities Lithuanian based core banking and central bank connectivity provider BBS develops document management system with electronic signature capabilities iSignthis Ltd (ASX: ISX | ...
iSignthis released Australian Merchant Onboarding Update
February 15th, 2019
Highlights ~12 regulated merchants have applied for facilities MCC 6211 (equities/trading/CFD/FX) is principal category of merchant applicants 3 Australian merchant contracts executed iSignthis Ltd (ASX: ISX | FRA: TA8) (“The Company”) following its announcement dated 6th February 2019, is ...
Currencies threatened by a credit crisis
February 15th, 2019
In this article I draw attention to the similarities between the current economic situation and that of 1929, and the threat to today’s unbacked currencies. There is the coincidence of trade protectionism with the top of the credit cycle, ...
As US piles on sanctions, foreign investors pour more money into Russia
February 14th, 2019
Russian companies’ stocks attracted the most foreign investment in 5 years, adding nearly $576 million in January, the Central Bank of Russia reported. Investors also actively poured money into Russian bonds despite US sanctions. The ruble-based Moscow stock exchange ...
