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New Rules on Reporting Brokers’ Dismissals to Begin Dec. 12
December 2nd, 2015
New rules significantly shorten the window of time brokerage firms have to report the details of a broker’s departure from their firm — an effort by securities regulators to make background information about brokers more accessible to consumers. Starting ...
UBS Traders May Be First to Face Sanctions in Forex Probes
December 2nd, 2015
Swiss regulator may issue penalties by the end of the year Finma probed 11 currency, metals traders amid global scandal As many as seven UBS Group AG traders may face sanctions from Switzerland’s financial watchdog in the coming weeks, ...
EU Commission’s proposal to improve access to finance for companies and simplify information for investors
December 1st, 2015
Small and medium-sized companies in particular will find it easier to raise funding when issuing shares or debt. Companies already listed on public markets will also benefit when they want to list additional shares or issue corporate bonds. As ...
Brazil sues BHP, Vale for $5 billion in damages for mine disaster
December 1st, 2015
Brazil filed a lawsuit on Monday against two of the world’s largest mining companies for 20 billion Brazilian reais ($5.2 billion/3.4 billion pounds) to clean up what it says was its worst environmental disaster, caused by the collapse of a ...
ASIC imposes licence conditions on Morgans Financial Limited
November 30th, 2015
ASIC and Morgans Financial Limited (Morgans) have agreed to the imposition of new licence conditions on Morgans’ Australian financial services licence. This action by ASIC follows a number of activities, including a surveillance of Morgans’ compliance with financial services ...
Interview with Roger Ver: 10 Questions to Bitcoin Angel Investor & Evangelist
November 30th, 2015
Every week CoinSpeaker interviews famous people involved with Bitcoin, Blockchain, Internet of Things and FinTech industries. Roger Ver, an early Bitcoin adopter and voluntaryist, has been closely involved with the most discussed cryptocurrency since 2011. Also known as the ...
CySec announced Imposition of Fines on 4 Cyprus Investment Firms
November 27th, 2015
The Cyprus Securities Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform about its decision for Imposition of Administartive Fines on four Cyprus Investment Firms. According to CySec, the CIFs Reliantco Investments Ltd, WGM Services Ltd , Pegase Capital ...
CySec announced Settlement with IronFX Global Ltd for €335.000
November 27th, 2015
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), following its announcement dated 06/08/2015, has issued an announcement to inform that: According the Article 37(4) of the Law 73(I)-2009 consolidated up to 135(I)-2015, the Commission may proceed with a compromise of ...
ISIS parks its cash in Bitcoin, experts say
November 26th, 2015
Just days after the hacker group Anonymous pledged to hunt down Islamic State members and launch cyberattacks against their accounts, a separate group of techies claims it has identified a key funding avenue for the terror network – bitcoin accounts. Ghost ...
Big banks accused of interest rate-swap fixing in U.S. class action suit
November 26th, 2015
A class action lawsuit, filed Wednesday, accuses 10 of Wall Street’s biggest banks and two trading platforms of conspiring to limit competition in the $320 trillion market for interest rate swaps. The class action lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court ...
