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The most common scams and how to avoid them
September 12th, 2016
Call it an occupational hazard, but I’ve become so nervous of scammers and fraudsters that I now delete even legitimate emails from my providers. In the past months alone this has seen my PayPal account suspended and my web ...
TechFinancials reports Revenue increased by 34% to US$9.86m
September 12th, 2016
TechFinancials (AIM: TECH), a leading technology provider to financial trading brokers, today announces its unaudited interim results for the six month period ended 30 June 2016 (“H1 2016”). Financial Highlights Revenue increased by 34% to US$9.86m (H1 2015: US$7.34m) ...
DDoS Extortionist Copycats Continue To Hound Victims
September 9th, 2016
It has been a while sine I wrote about this subject (or about anything at all for that matter) but, it occurred to me to today that the distributed denial of service (DDoS) extortionist issue is a problem that ...
An online legal document provider is expanding into Europe
September 8th, 2016
An online legal document provider is expanding into mainland Europe after persuading more than 200,000 people in the UK to sign up for the service. US-based Rocket Lawyer, which founded four years ago in the UK, will launch in ...
Westpac refunds $20 million in credit card foreign transaction fees
September 8th, 2016
Westpac Banking Corporation (Westpac) has recently refunded approximately $20 million to around 820,000 customers for not clearly disclosing the types of credit card transactions that attract foreign transaction fees. Following a customer complaint, Westpac notified ASIC that customers may have been ...
Morgan Stanley pays $123,750 in infringement notice penalty
September 7th, 2016
Morgan Stanley Australia Securities Limited (“Morgan Stanley”) has paid a penalty of $123,750 to comply with an infringement notice given to it by the Markets Disciplinary Panel (“MDP”). The MDP had reasonable grounds to believe that Morgan Stanley contravened subsection 798H(1) ...
HKMA embraces FinTech as it burnishes Hong Kong’s brand to compete as Asia’s financial hub
September 6th, 2016
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has unveiled a series of policy initiatives for banks to embrace technology, and changed the city’s tax regime to attract corporate treasury departments, as it sharpens its edge to compete with Singapore and Tokyo ...
Oil Rally Fervor Cools as OPEC Output at Record Before Talks
September 5th, 2016
Investors cut bets on oil rally by most in two years: CFTC OPEC production reached 33.69 million barrels a day last month Investors are realizing that OPEC’s talk of a production freeze may not be much of a restraint, ...
13 Percent VAT Confirmed For Egypt
September 2nd, 2016
Egyptian lawmakers have agreed to the introduction of a value-added tax regime with a 13 percent headline rate from the 2016/17 fiscal year. The rate is to rise to 14 percent from 2017/18. In May, Egypt’s Finance Minister disclosed ...
Robo-advice tools in the financial services industry still pose considerable legal risks
September 2nd, 2016
Speaking at The Adviser Network’s Digital Advice Conversations last week, Holley Nethercote partner Grant Holley explained that digital advice presents several legal challenges, particularly for services offering personal advice. For example, advisers are currently required to undertake a review ...
