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Cyprus Investment Firm fined by CySec
December 18th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform that at its meeting held on 13 November 2017, the Board decided to impose a total administrative fine of €50,000 to CIF Centralspot Trading Ltd for ...
Four Guilty In Relation To £1.4 Million Investment Scheme
December 4th, 2017
In a criminal prosecution brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Samrat Bhandari and Dr Muhammad Aleem Mirza have been found guilty for their roles in operating an investment scheme which led to more than 300 investors losing a ...
J.P. Morgan Securities fined $1.25 Million
November 22nd, 2017
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced it has fined J.P. Morgan Securities, LLC $1.25 million for failing to conduct timely or adequate background checks on approximately 8,600, or 95 percent, of its non-registered associated persons from January 2009 ...
European Authority Highlights The Risks of Initial Coin Offerings
November 15th, 2017
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued two Statements on Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), one on risks of ICOs for investors and one on the rules applicable to firms involved in ICOs. ESMA has observed a rapid ...
KPMG and Barclays sued for ‘engineering’ administration of quarrying company
October 25th, 2017
Quarrying company Portland Stone Holdings Limited is suing Barclays and KPMG for ‘engineering’ the administration of its subsidiary, Stone Firms Ltd, in 2010. The Portland Stone suppliers allege that the Barclays business support unit was ‘an internal profit centre’ ...
Israel bans binary options industry; Operatives have three months to shut down
October 24th, 2017
The Knesset on Monday unanimously passed a law to ban Israel’s binary options industry, a vast, multibillion dollar scam that has defrauded millions of victims worldwide for a decade. The law, which will go into effect three months from ...
Web Shield & iSignthis to deliver unified legal entity & UBO KYC
October 19th, 2017
Highlights: Web Shield’s Know Your Customer Corporate/Business (KYCB) InvestiGate Platform to feature Know Your Customer (KYC) for individual UBO’s, PSC’s and Directors iSignthis Service to be enabled for all Web Shield customers globally from Nov 2017 Web shield will ...
FMA allows personalised robo-advice
October 18th, 2017
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA), a regulatory authority for financial services in New Zealand, has issued an announcement to inform that has decided to grant an exemption to enable personalised robo-advice and is publishing the responses to its earlier ...
CySec witdraw the license suspension of a Cyprus Investment Firm
October 17th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform that, further to its Decision published on 31st March 2017, informs the public that, at its meeting dated 2 October 2017, decided to withdraw the suspension of the authorisation of ...
The upcoming increase in interest rates
October 6th, 2017
Last week, both Janet Yellen of the Fed and Mark Carney of the Bank of England prepared financial markets for interest rate increases. The working assumption should be that this was coordinated, and that both the ECB and ...
