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Companies and individual to pay $3.5 Million in commodity futures and Forex fraud
May 2nd, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that on April 11, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado entered Default Judgment against Defendants Randall A. Vest and his holding company, Bulletproof Vest, Inc.(Bulletproof Vest). The judgment resolves a CFTC enforcement action ...
Directors of Storm Financial penalised for breach of duties
March 22nd, 2018
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has issued an announcement to inform investors and public that the Federal Court has imposed civil penalties of $70,000 each on the directors of Storm Financial, Emmanuel and Julie Cassimatis, who were previously ...
Election in Italy appears to have given no party a clear majority; Here’s what happens next
March 5th, 2018
Sunday’s election in Italy appears to have given no party a clear majority — signaling a period of political instability for one of Europe’s biggest economies. As of Sunday night local time, Italian exit polls indicated that a center-right ...
Currency exchange value dynamics
March 2nd, 2018
In a recent article I postulated that the dollar could lose all its purchasing power with a rapidity that will come as an unpleasant bombshell, even to those who already see inflation as society’s greatest problem in the ...
Interactive Brokers Hong Kong fined $4.5 million
February 15th, 2018
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded and fined Interactive Brokers Hong Kong Limited (IBHK) $4.5 million after resolving concerns over IBHK’s breaches of the Code of Conduct in its execution of market orders using electronic and algorithmic ...
European shares bounce back after turbulent week
February 12th, 2018
European shares rebounded from six-month lows on Monday as jitters over a sudden spike in volatility that wiped off $1 trillion in market capitalization last week appeared to ease. Broad-based gains helped the pan-European STOXX 600 index rise 1.5 ...
Brexit – the battle for ideas
February 9th, 2018
The battle for ideas in the Brexit debate comes down to two basic economic approaches. The neo-Keynesian macroeconomists in the permanent establishment, who manage the state as economic planners and regulators are on one side. They are naturally ...
The truth about trade
January 23rd, 2018
The one subject, which became a headline issue last year, and even divides experts is trade. It will become increasingly important in 2018 as the US develops her trade policy, particularly with respect to China, and as the ...
Euronext Acquires InsiderLog
January 18th, 2018
Euronext, the leading pan-European exchange in the Eurozone with nearly 1,300 listed issuers, announces the acquisition of 80% of the capital of InsiderLog, a Stockholm-based leading player in the field of insider list management, for a cash consideration of ...
Revamped rules for EU finance: Mifid II; What is MiFID II?
January 17th, 2018
Mifid II, a major revamp of European Union finance rules took effect on January 3, 2018. Its goals: Greater transparency, competitiveness and efficiency in financial instruments, and less scope for fraud and malfeasance. What is MiFID II? It’s a ...
