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Interactive Brokers LLC to pay more than $12 million for AML and Supervision violations
August 17th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed and simultaneously settled charges against Interactive Brokers LLC, a registered futures commission merchant (FCM), for failing to diligently supervise its officers’, employees’, and agents’ handling of several commodity trading accounts and failing ...
The pound’s future in a dollar collapse
July 28th, 2020
In recent articles for Goldmoney I have pointed out the dollar’s vulnerability to a final collapse in its purchasing power. This article focuses on the factors that will determine the future for sterling. Sterling is exceptionally vulnerable to ...
Explaining the credit cycle
July 24th, 2020
This article summarises why the credit cycle leads to alternate booms and slumps. It is only with this in mind that they can be properly understood as current economic conditions evolve. The reader is taken through three monetary ...
CySEC announced settlement with insurance company for possible market abuse violations
July 24th, 2020
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission («CySEC») has announced that a settlement has been reached with an insurance company based in Cyprus for possible violation of the Market Abuse legislation. In accordance with the CySEC’s decision: CySEC, under article ...
EU Commission published an evaluation report on the GDPR
July 13th, 2020
Just over two years after its entry into application, the European Commission published an evaluation report on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The report shows the GDPR has met most of its objectives, in particular by offering citizens ...
CySEC recalls the partial suspension of the CIF authorisation of two Cyprus Investment Firms
June 18th, 2020
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (‘CySEC’) has issued today two announcements to inform that decided to recall the partial suspension of the authorisation of two Cyprus Investment Firms (‘CIFs’). In accordance with the announcements: The CYSEC, further to ...
UPDATE: Emerging market currencies and Latam stocks
June 4th, 2020
Brazil’s real surged on Wednesday after industrial output in the country fell less than expected, while Latin American stocks surged as major global economies were seen recovering from the coronavirus’ economic rout. The real rose 2.4% to a near ...
Time to learn about money
May 14th, 2020
An unexpected destruction of fiat currency has been advanced by the monetary and fiscal response to the coronavirus. Financial markets have yet to discount the possibility of such an outcome, but in the coming months they are likely ...
Pound Sterling higher against Euro and Dollar
May 7th, 2020
The British Pound went higher on Thursday after the Bank of England opted to keep interest rates and its quantitative easing programme unchanged, a decision that might have surprised some market participants that were looking for more easing to ...
European Data Protection Board adopts further COVID-19 guidance
April 22nd, 2020
During its 23rd plenary session, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) adopted guidelines on the processing of health data for research purposes in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak and guidelines on geolocation and other tracing tools in the ...