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CySec announced withdrawal of suspension of Cyprus Investment Firm authorisation
October 12th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued today an announcement to inform that, further to its Decision published on 13th July 2017, informs the public that, at its meeting dated 2 October 2017, decided to withdraw the ...
CySec suspended the license of a Cyprus Investment Firm
October 11th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued today an announcement to inform that, following a decision in the meeting dated 25.09.2017, the authorisation of the Cyprus Investment Firm Concorde Investments (Cyprus) Ltd (‘the Company’), number 189/13, is suspended, ...
EU raids banks over attempts to block financial tech rivals
October 11th, 2017
You’d think that governments were waging a war against financial technology given reports of crackdowns and tighter regulation, but the opposite is true in Europe. EU officials have confirmed that they recently raided the offices of bank authorities in ...
CySec authorised two new Cyprus Investment Firms
October 10th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the financial regulatory authority of Cyprus, has issued announcements to inform that two new firms have been approved by the Commission as Cyprus Investment Firms. According the announcement, the firms Wise Wolves Finance ...
Investment Adviser Charged in Multi-Million Dollar Options Trading Scheme
October 6th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a Westchester, New York-based investment adviser with fraud stemming from lies to retail investors about the value of their investments in a Ponzi-like scheme. The SEC alleges that, starting in approximately 2010, Michael Scronic ...
Business investment rate up to 23.2% in the euro area
October 6th, 2017
In the second quarter of 2017, the business investment rate was 23.2% in the euro area, compared with 22.9% in the previous quarter. The business profit share in the euro area was 40.8% in the second quarter of 2017, ...
Beware of unauthorised financial services entities
October 5th, 2017
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), France (Authorité des Marchés Financiers – AMF), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – FINMA), Hong Kong (Securities and Futures Commission – SFC), Luxembourg (Commission de Surveillance ...
CySec announced that a Cyprus Investment Firm renounced its authorisation
October 4th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform that, on 21st September 2017, the CIF AJF Financial Services Ltd (the ‘Company’), which provided investment services via the domains www.alphainvestment.eu, www.direktbroker24.de, www.ondatrade.com, www.tradefinancial.eu, renounced its authorisation, pursuant ...
Early bitcoin investor Palihapitiya declares ‘nobody can stop it’
September 27th, 2017
Investors who followed Social Capital’s Chamath Palihapitiya into the early stages of two investments he advocated would have made an awful lot of money. Palihapitiya was early in both Facebook, the ubiquitous social network, and bitcoin, the disruptive crypotcurrency ...
CySec announced the authorisation of two new Cyprus Investment Firms
September 26th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the financial regulatory authority of Cyprus, has issued today announcements to inform that two new firms have been approved by the Commission as Cyprus Investment Firms. According the announcement, the firms ArgusFX Ltd and ...
