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Bitcoin Price Reaches $1,220, Three Main Factors to Influence its Growth
April 19th, 2017
Major factor: Japanese market The Japanese Bitcoin exchange market has experienced an increasing demand for Bitcoin over the past few weeks. Earlier this month, the Japanese retail giant Bic Camera began to accept Bitcoin in all of its retail ...
NZX joins UN Sustainable Stock Exchange initiative
April 19th, 2017
NZX today announced that it has joined the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchange (SSE) initiative as a partner exchange. The SSE initiative provides a platform for exchanges to discuss environmental, social and corporate governance enhancements and stimulate discussions about ...
The US$200 million investment scam; hunt is on
April 13th, 2017
Investigators looking into a financial scam that took Dubai residents for tens of thousands of dollars have shifted their focus to recovering about US$200 million (Dh734.5m). The sum is believed to have been siphoned from a Dubai branch of ...
KPMG US removes head of audit for ‘improper’ warnings
April 12th, 2017
The firm said it learned in late February, from an internal source, that an individual who had joined KPMG from the PCAOB subsequently received confidential information from a then-employee of the PCAOB, and shared that information with other KPMG ...
Bitcoin touches 3-week high as Russia mulls recognizing it as a currency
April 12th, 2017
The price of a single bitcoin on Tuesday climbed to its highest level in three weeks following reports that Russian authorities might recognize the world’s most popular digital currency as a legitimate financial instrument some time next year. If ...
FXCM reports customer trading volume of $225 billion in March 2017
April 12th, 2017
FXCM Group, LLC (“FXCM Group” or “FXCM”), a leading international provider of online foreign exchange trading, CFD trading, spread betting and related services, today announced certain key customer trading metrics for March 2017 for its retail and institutional foreign ...
Multinational law firm launches global FinTech mentors program
April 11th, 2017
Hogan Lovells is launching a Global FinTech Mentors Program, through which its most experienced Financial Services and Regulatory partners will guide FinTech organizations, at any stage of development, through their FinTech journey. FinTech mentors will be available to organizations ...
CySec informs about main changes affecting the authorisation requirements for investment firms
April 11th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform any interested parties that the Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments and amending ...
The decline and fall of the EU
April 11th, 2017
This article identifies the headwinds faced by the EU in the wake of Brexit. Without the UK, not only does the EU lose much of its importance on the world stage, but the Commission’s budget is left with an ...
ESMA reports on EU Accounting enforcement in 2016
April 10th, 2017
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its annual report on the enforcement and regulatory activities of accounting enforcers within the European Union (EU) in 2016. ESMA, in 2016, continued strengthening supervisory convergence in the area of ...