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Top Cryptocurrency stories in 2018
December 27th, 2018
Following an intense 2017 with cryptocurrency market spikes, year 2018 is the year with great majority of digital assets plunged well over 80 percent in value since their all-time highs. Year 2018 is also filled with many headlines about the ...
Bitcoin could be overseen by UK’s financial regulator
December 21st, 2018
The UK government has said it stands ready to empower Britain’s financial regulator to oversee all cryptocurrency assets, after a warning from MPs that bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were “wild west” assets that exposed consumers to a host of ...
ESMA agreed to renew the restriction on contracts for differences (CFDs)
December 21st, 2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has agreed to renew the restriction on the marketing, distribution or sale of contracts for differences (CFDs) to retail clients, in effect since 1 August, from 1 February 2019 for a further ...
Telecoms drag European stocks lower
December 21st, 2018
European stocks were lower Friday morning, with the prospect of further hikes in U.S. borrowing costs prompting investors to rush out of crowded trades. The pan-European Stoxx 600 was down around 0.3 percent during early morning deals, with most ...
Alert! Cryptocurrency fraudsters are using cryptocurrencies to swindle consumers
December 19th, 2018
The Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA), an autonomous public institution that supervises the Belgian financial sector, has issued a warning to inform consumers for cryptocurrency fraud. In accordance the warning, despite its earlier warnings, the FSMA continues to ...
Tackling mental health in law firms
December 14th, 2018
Recent news that the head of global law firm Baker McKenzie, Paul Rawlinson, is taking temporary leave due to exhaustion raises the question of whether law firms are doing enough to support the wellbeing of their employees, says Averil ...
Alert! Beware of companies offering financial services without the required license
December 14th, 2018
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – FINMA), China (Financial Supervisory Commission Chinese Taipei – FSC), Holland (Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets – AFM), Sweden (Finansinspektionen), ...
Executives to pay Millions to settle initial coin offering scam charges
December 13th, 2018
Two former executives behind an allegedly fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) that was stopped by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier this year have been ordered in federal court to pay nearly $2.7 million and prohibited from serving ...
FCA UK proposes permanent measures for retail CFDs and binary options
December 10th, 2018
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is proposing rules to address harm to retail consumers from the sale of certain complex derivative products with the publication of two consultation papers. The rules would apply to firms acting in or from ...
Boxer Floyd Mayweather and music producer Khaled Khaled charged with unlawfully touting Coin Offerings
December 4th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced settled charges against professional boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and music producer Khaled Khaled, known as DJ Khaled, for failing to disclose payments they received for promoting investments in Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). These ...
