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Embraer Paying $205 Million to Settle FCPA Charges
October 25th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced a global settlement along with the U.S. Department of Justice and Brazilian authorities that requires aircraft manufacturer Embraer S.A. to pay more than $205 million to resolve alleged violations of the Foreign ...
FCA UK issued a warning against Titanium Wealth Management
October 21st, 2016
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning to inform that the Authority believes that the below firm has been providing financial services or products in the UK without FCA’s authorisation. Almost all firms and individuals offering, promoting or selling ...
Documents reveal BlackfortFX ponzi scheme scale
October 20th, 2016
Documents from the receivers and liquidators of Arena Capital, whose director Jimmie McNicholl has been charged with running a ponzi scheme, show it received more than $9 million from clients even though no forex trading was undertaken. In their ...
Ernst & Young to Pay $11.8 Million for Audit Failures
October 19th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that Ernst & Young LLP has agreed to pay more than $11.8m to settle charges related to failed audits of an oil services company that used deceptive income tax accounting to inflate ...
Deloitte now focuses on blockchain technology and the Internet of Things (IoT)
October 19th, 2016
Deloitte Catalyst accelerates digital transformation by bringing together critical assets and capabilities from the domains of cognitive technologies, Internet of Things and blockchain and includes as initial members Narrative Science, Kira Systems, Ayasdi and Loyyal, among others. Deloitte Catalyst has enabled Deloitte to launch ...
allpay Signs With Eckoh To Secure Telephone Payments
October 17th, 2016
Public sector bill payment services provider, allpay has chosen Eckoh to secure customer payments made over the telephone attheir contact centre. In addition, allpay and Eckoh have entered into a partnership that will resell CallGuard to allpay’s clients. allpay ...
ATM Explosive Attacks surge in Europe
October 17th, 2016
In a European ATM Crime Report covering the first six months of 2016 EAST has reported that ATM explosive attacks were up 80% when compared to the same period in 2015. A total of 492 explosive attacks were reported, ...
World’s First Publicly-Traded Law Firm Facing Securities Class Action
October 14th, 2016
There’s a cautionary tale playing out in Australia over what can happen when law firms take money from outside investors, something that’s still prohibited here in the U.S. Slater & Gordon became the world’s first publicly-traded law firm back in 2007, ...
Companies from UK, Cyprus, Germany, Italy and 12 other countries involved in a gigantic millions euro tax scam
October 13th, 2016
Four Maltese companies have been implicated in what the Italian authorities are describing as a ‘gigantic carousel fraud’, the Vicenza Guardia di Finanza reported yesterday. The scam, which was perpetrated through 145 Italian companies and 35 companies outside of ...
Deloitte likes blockchain for loyalty rewards programmes
October 13th, 2016
Big four consultancy firm Deloitte has published a report examining how loyalty rewards programmes can be optimised by blockchain-based technology. Customer loyalty programs are not realising their full potential due to low client retention and redemption rates, time delays, ...
