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Venezuelans are turning to bitcoin as the bolívar crumbles
November 4th, 2016
Venezuela’s currency has lost so much of its value that people have given up on counting the notes—they just weigh piles of cash. So far this year, the bolívar has lost nearly half its value compared to the dollar, while ...
Don’t Sweat The Election. The Next Crisis Is Already Baked Into The Cake
November 1st, 2016
Friday was one of those days where you walk away from the screen for a minute and come back to find a completely different market. All it took was the FBI finding a trove of new Clinton emails, thus ...
Japanese Financial Institution Set to Launch a Digital Currency Exchange
October 31st, 2016
Japanese financial services group SBI is set to launch a platform that enables the trading and exchange of virtual currencies, citing increasing interest in virtual currencies like bitcoin which is proving popular among everyday investors. An announcement reveals the new company to be ...
IPC’s FX Hub to Enable Secure and Reliable Access to Hotspot’s Marketplace
October 21st, 2016
IPC, a leading global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, and Hotspot, a leading institutional foreign exchange (FX) market owned and operated by Bats Global Markets, today announced that market participants can ...
AMF France warns for unregulated Forex entities and websites
October 17th, 2016
The Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR) and the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) issued a warning to inform the public against the activities of several websites and entities proposing Forex investments without being authorised to do ...
How not to manage a currency
October 15th, 2016
Make no mistake, sterling’s collapse is a very serious development, and has serious consequences for sterling interest rates. While it is becoming apparent that interest rates are going to have to rise possibly for all currencies on a one-year ...
Deloitte likes blockchain for loyalty rewards programmes
October 13th, 2016
Big four consultancy firm Deloitte has published a report examining how loyalty rewards programmes can be optimised by blockchain-based technology. Customer loyalty programs are not realising their full potential due to low client retention and redemption rates, time delays, ...
CFTC charges Companies and Individuals with fraud in Selling a Futures Trading System
October 13th, 2016
CFTC Charges Utah Resident Kimball Parker and Florida Resident Timothy Baggett with Fraud and Other Violations in Connection with Offering and Selling a Futures Trading System Parker’s Company, MakeYourFuture, LLC, and Baggett’s Companies, Changes Worldwide LLC and Changes Trading ...
Findex Group and Financial Index Australia fined by ASIC
October 10th, 2016
Findex Group Limited and Financial Index Australia Pty Ltd (FIA) have each paid a $10,800 penalty following the issuing by ASIC of infringement notices for potentially misleading claims on the Findex website (www.findex.com.au). The Findex group of companies (which ...
OSC issued a warning for alfatrade
October 7th, 2016
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has issued a press release to warn investors regarding Nemesis Capital BG Limited, doing business as www.alfatrade.com. The OSC warns investors and public that Nemesis Capital BG Limited doing business as www.alfatrade.com is not ...
