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Associations challenging crypto Ads ban to proceed with lawsuit
June 29th, 2018
Facebook’s recent decision to partially lift the ban on crypto ads will not stop a planned legal action against the measure. Crypto associations and businesses from several countries announced earlier this year their intentions to sue internet giants imposing ...
U.S. court fined company for fraud in a commodity futures day-trading system
June 27th, 2018
Federal Court orders Jody Dupont of Anderson, South Carolina, and his company, Open Range Trading LLC, to pay $192,000 for defrauding customers in connection with offering and selling futures trading system. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that ...
CySEC announced the authorization of two new Cyprus Investment Firms
June 20th, 2018
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), the financial regulatory authority of Cyprus, has issued two announcements to inform that new companies have been approved by the Commission as Cyprus Investment Firms (CIFs). According the announcements, the firms Globesco ...
New EU copyright filtering law threatens the internet as we knew it
June 20th, 2018
On June 20th, a committee of the European Parliament will vote on whether to proceed on a copyright proposal that some say will destroy the internet as we know it. That may sound fairly hyperbolic, but over 70 experts ...
Tax haven myths challenged by think tank
June 19th, 2018
A new report debunks the myths surrounding the purposes of tax havens and challenges the image of ‘hotbeds of tax evasion.’ In research debunking myths about tax havens, UK think tank The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) argues tax ...
Omega Knight 2 and two individuals charged with $5.5 Million precious metals fraud
June 14th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against Defendants Omega Knight 2, LLC (Omega Knight), its owner and president, Aviv Michael Hen (Aviv Hen) ...
On 20 June is the biggest vote on potential change to copyright law in Europe
June 11th, 2018
On 20 June, Parliament’s legal affairs committee will vote on the biggest potential change to copyright law in Europe in the last 30 years. The European Commission made the initial proposal two years ago and at its heart were ...
Australian tourist town has declared itself the first “digital currency town”
June 7th, 2018
Agnes Water, a tourist town located in central Queensland, Austrailia has become one of the first locations to accept digital currency. In a collaboration with TravelByBit (a start-up company native to Queensland) one town hopes to increase the flow ...
South Korean Supreme Court rules Bitcoin is an asset
June 6th, 2018
South Korean Supreme Court just ruled that bitcoin is a legally recognizable asset. The landmark ruling occurred on May 30, 2018, and it overturns a decision made by one of the country’s lower courts in a case dating back ...
Facebook and Google accused of violating GDPR on first day of the new European Privacy Law
June 6th, 2018
When Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of members of the European Parliament, he insisted that Facebook was ready for Friday, the day when the European Unions’s strict new data privacy law went into effect. But users in Europe have ...
