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SEC Adopts Amendments Providing Authorities Access to Data Obtained by Security-Based Swap Data Repositories
August 30th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today adopted amendments to a rule that would require security-based swap data repositories to make data available to regulators and other authorities, allowing them to share information and more effectively oversee the security-based swap ...
European recognition of FMA oversight of auditors
August 30th, 2016
The European Commission has announced its recognition of the New Zealand audit oversight regime as equivalent to EU standards, permitting NZ-regulated auditors to operate in the European Union. With this announcement, the Commission has concluded that the New Zealand ...
Fintech Startup Transferwise Moves Away From Banks
August 30th, 2016
Transferwise Inc., the global money transfer startup, is getting ready to free itself from relying on banks. The five-year-old London-based company is known for splashy ad campaigns. These feature nearly-nude employees as a way to show how much more ...
Taiwan to toughen anti-money laundering law after US fine
August 25th, 2016
Taiwan moved Thursday (Aug 25) to toughen its anti-money laundering law after US authorities fined a local bank linked to the so-called Panama Papers scandal. Last week, American regulators fined Taiwan’s Mega International Commercial Bank US$180 million for showing ...
UBS wins big bank backing for Utility Settlement Coin concept
August 24th, 2016
BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank, Icap and Santander have joined with UBS and Clearmatics to advance the Utility Settlement Coin, an asset-backed digital cash instrument implemented on distributed ledger technology. UBS and Clearmatics floated the model in September 2015 to ...
Nukkleus which obtained a shareholder stake in IBIH Limited the parent company of IronFX Global Group files Q2 financial report
August 22nd, 2016
Nukkleus Inc. has filled its Quarterly Report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the Form of FORM 10-Q/A, providing, among other, insights of the acquisition of a 9.9% shareholder stake in IBIH, as well as the acquisition ...
Accounting whistleblower turns down multi-million reward
August 22nd, 2016
A whistleblower whose information helped reveal false accounting at Deutsche Bank has turned down a huge financial reward from the Securities and Exchange Commission in protest of failure to punish wrong-doing executives at the bank. Eric Ben-Artzi, a former Deutsche risk ...
FXCM Issues Statement on CFTC Complaint
August 22nd, 2016
FXCM has issued a statement in relation to the complaint filed by CFTC on August 19, 2016. Below is the FXCM’s statement as it was published on August 19, 2016: FXCM Inc. (NYSE:FXCM) (or the “Company”), today issued a statement ...
EuroFX: How British Firms Built a Pyramid Scheme in China That Lost Millions
August 19th, 2016
The foreign exchange fraudsters hid in the cracks between international jurisdictions. As David Byrne ate breakfast at the Tongli Lakeview Hotel outside Shanghai one Sunday in April, an angry customer was waiting for him. Byrne, 52, is a British ...
Panic dominates among currency traders in Egypt following parliament’s decision for tough punishments
August 16th, 2016
Employees in exchange companies in the informal market express concern, outrage over parliament’s recent decision to crackdown on currency traders A state of panic has broken out among exchange companies trading the US dollar following parliament’s decision on Thursday ...
