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CEX.IO Bitcoin Exchange Officially Enters the USA Market
May 5th, 2015
CEX.IO is glad to announce the official launch of the operation in the USA. Now, US customers from certain states are able to deposit and withdraw fiat money. CEX.IO has obtained an MSB (Money Services Business) status in FinCEN, a bureau of the U.S. ...
AMF warns against sites misusing its name and logo
April 27th, 2015
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is warning the public against sites misusing its name and logo and redirecting to binary option trading platforms. The AMF Financiers is alerting the public regarding www.optionbinaireamf.com website which is abusing its name ...
Central Banks Will Be Busy This Week, But Their Ability To Boost Global Business Is In Doubt
April 27th, 2015
Most big central banks have been easing policy since the beginning of the year and are set to do more, but it still isn’t clear whether that new activism, which has pushed stock markets to record highs, will help ...
Switzerland, France Discuss Tax
April 24th, 2015
French President François Hollande has met with the head of Switzerland’s Federal Department of Finance, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, to talk tax. The meeting was held during Hollande’s state visit to Switzerland, the first by a French President since 1998. The ...
Number of businesses EU VAT rules affect ‘underestimated’
April 22nd, 2015
HMRC’s underestimation of the number of small businesses affected by the new VAT EU rules on the supply of business to customer digital services caused thousands to struggle with the new regulations. The claims were made by the EU ...
Supervisory Authorities issued warnings on unauthorised companies
April 20th, 2015
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA) and Spain (Comision Nacional del Mercado de Valores – CNMV) report companies that are offering investment services without the required authorisation. Reported by the FCA: Investec Asset ...
Antitrust and Other Inquiries in Europe Target U.S. Tech Giants
April 3rd, 2015
It is not a good week to be a giant American tech company in Europe. The European antitrust investigation into Google appears to be heating up. More European countries are looking into Facebook’s privacy settings. And Apple, which already is ...
UK Offshore Tax Disclosures – Use The LDF while you can [Update]
March 24th, 2015
Tax authorities around the globe are increasingly working together to fight tax evasion and aggressive tax avoidance to collect more tax. In the UK, HMRC is geared up to take full advantage: anyone who needs to put UK tax ...
Predicting the Future With Russia’s Economic Nostradamus, Mikhail Dmitriyev
March 19th, 2015
Mikhail Dmitriyev, president of the New Economic Growth consultancy, is often described as “Russia’s top brain.” He studied in Leningrad in the ’80s and took part in economics discussion clubs with the people who transformed Russia into a market economy, including Anatoly Chubais, the architect of Russia’s privatization ...
ECB Warns Cyprus as Government Pushes for Georghadji’s Dismissal
March 16th, 2015
The European Central Bank warned Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades to respect central-bank independence after the country’s government started proceedings to dismiss Governor Chrystalla Georghadji. A year after previous Cypriot central-bank chief Panicos Demetriades resigned his post following months of ...
