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Swiss bank becomes first to offer bitcoin to its richest clients
July 14th, 2017
A Swiss bank is now offering to buy bitcoins for its clients. As of Wednesday, investors can ask their asset manager at Falcon Private Bank, a boutique investment firm headquartered in Zurich, to purchase and store bitcoin on their ...
Cold calling scams defrauded more than one hundred victims
July 13th, 2017
SEC Announces Charges in Massive Telemarketing Boiler Room Scheme Targeting Seniors The Securities and Exchange Commission today brought fraud charges against 13 individuals allegedly involved in two Long Island-based cold calling scams that bilked more than one hundred victims ...
BlackRock’s Top Economist Thinks Bitcoin and Ethereum Look Like a Bubble
July 12th, 2017
BlackRock, the $5 trillion asset manager, has not traditionally paid much attention to cryptocurrency platforms such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Now that the prices of those blockchain-based currencies have risen exponentially in recent months, however, even BlackRock’s top economists ...
Cosco Shipping to acquire Orient Overseas for $6.3bn
July 10th, 2017
Cosco Shipping Holdings Ltd agreed to buy Orient Overseas International Ltd for $6.3bn in cash, creating the world’s third-largest container-shipping company as the industry shrinks after years of losses and overcapacity. Cosco, China’s biggest container carrier, will pay shareholders ...
Moscow Exchange to establish subsidiary focused on innovative projects
July 6th, 2017
Moscow Exchange announces it will commit its innovative technologies business line and work with fintech start-ups to a new subsidiary company, MOEX Innovations. The Exchange plans to invest up to RUB 1.2 bln into innovation-focused companies and projects. Alexander ...
Early Global Markets Review for Thursday July 06
July 6th, 2017
Most Asian stock markets fell on Thursday after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting showed a lack of consensus on the future pace of U.S. interest rate increases, while oil prices inched higher following a steep decline a ...
Spotware Systems announces Stop Limit Order for cTrader
July 4th, 2017
Spotware Systems announce that they have added a new order type to their cTrader platform. This new order type is a Stop Limit Order, it has been added to desktop, web, iOS and Android versions of the platform, and ...
Barclays and former executives charged with fraud conspiracy
July 3rd, 2017
Ex-CEO John Varley, Roger Jenkins among four men charged Charges relate to Barclays’s 2008 capital raising with Qatar Barclays Plc and four former executives will appear in a London court for the first time Monday to face allegations they ...
Information technology company charged with accounting fraud
July 3rd, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Chicago-area information technology company Quadrant 4 System Corp. (QFOR) and two former top executives in an accounting fraud scheme that misled investors and allowed the former executives to siphon millions from ...
Teddy Sagi sold block of shares in Playtech for £337 million
June 29th, 2017
Teddy Sagi continues to sell shares in gambling software company Playtech plc. Through a placement by Brickington Trading Limited, Sagi has sold 36.5 million ordinary shares, representing approximately 11.5% of the issued share capital of the company at a ...
