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Investors claim they lost €4.1m in Binary Options scam
September 3rd, 2018
A group of investors who claim they lost millions of euro in an electronic trading scam have brought a High Court damages action against an Irish-registered firm and Irish- and Israeli-based directors. They have sued Greymountain Management Ltd, which ...
Data protection complaints in UK doubled since GDPR took effect
August 28th, 2018
The number of data protection complaint reported to UK regulators has nearly doubled since the introduction of new data protection laws, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said. Saturday marks three months since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ...
U.K. accounting faces chaos in no-deal Brexit
August 28th, 2018
Accounting in the U.K. would be thrown into chaos if the country fails to strike a deal on how to leave the European Union, which looks increasingly likely. “Things could simply stop,” Anthony Walters, Head of Public Affairs at ...
ESMA agreed to renew prohibition on Binary Options for a further three months
August 27th, 2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has agreed to renew the prohibition of the marketing, distribution or sale of binary options to retail clients, in effect since 2 July, from 2 October 2018 for a further three-month period. ...
UK Banks advocate Brexit deal on financial services
August 23rd, 2018
Several UK financial services enterprises have urged the government to strike a deal with the EU allowing British banks, insurers, and wealth managers to do business on the continent free of any possible restrictions. Kristian Rouz — The British ...
Over 60% of top 100 Cryptocurrencies have no working product, study claims
August 20th, 2018
Of the top 100 cryptocurrencies listed by market capitalization, only 36 are actually what the authors term “working products” in a study recently published online. Newer ecosystem website, Invest in Blockchain, commissioned the study. It’s sure to be debated, ...
A new legal challenge to Brexit is filed
August 17th, 2018
The UK in EU Challenge group, an anti-Brexit organization consisting largely of British expatriates living in Spain, France and Italy, filed a new legal challenge to Brexit Tuesday alleging that the referendum vote was not a fair vote and the ...
CySEC informs Market Participants for the timely request of authorisation following Brexit
August 10th, 2018
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued an announcement to draw the attention of all Market Participants to the Public Statement issued by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), with reference n. ESMA 42-110-998, in relation ...
MiFID II ESMA: Data for the systemic internaliser calculations for equity, equity-like instruments and bonds
August 3rd, 2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published data for the systemic internaliser calculations for equity, equity-like instruments and bonds under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR). More specifically, ESMA has published the ...
Cyprus Investment Firm providing Forex trading fined €130.000
August 2nd, 2018
The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (‘CySEC’) has issued today an announcement to inform the public that, at the meeting held on June 11, 2018, it has decided to impose a total administrative fine of €130.000 ...
