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MasterCard Announces Acquisition of VocaLink
July 22nd, 2016
MasterCard Incorporated (NYSE: MA) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 92.4 percent of VocaLink Holdings Limited for about £700 million (approximately US$920 million), after adjusting for cash and certain other estimated liabilities. VocaLink’s ...
The man behind the world’s biggest online illegal film site arrested
July 21st, 2016
US officials plan to charge the Ukrainian owner of the Web’s “most visited” piracy site, Kickass Torrents. The site distributes $1 billion worth of illegally copied content and is the world’s 70th most popular site. Attorneys for the US ...
A paper trail links online traders to tax havens
July 21st, 2016
A paper trail that runs from Okinawa to Canada and from Israel to Italy and France links some unauthorized online traders on the blacklist of Japan’s financial regulator to offshore companies in tax havens, an analysis of files leaked ...
FCA released the details of a clone firm
July 20th, 2016
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning to inform that fraudsters are using the details of firms the FCA authorises to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. This is what FCA calls a ...
CFTC Extends Designation of DTCC-SWIFT as LEI Provider
July 19th, 2016
One-Year Extension Allows More Time for Global LEI System Transition The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it has issued an Order extending, by one year, the designation of the utility operated by DTCC-SWIFT as the provider ...
Investment advisory firm agreed to pay $300,000 to settle SEC charges
July 15th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an enforcement action against an investment advisory firm that failed to properly prepare clients for additional transaction costs beyond the “wrap fees” they pay to cover the cost of several services bundled ...
Research shows that poor online presence of Law Firms causes for miss out business
July 14th, 2016
New research indicates that the vast majority of solicitors (94 per cent) have wrong or inconsistent information online, including basic details such as a phone number or email address. Digital marketing provider Yell conducted research into how the 11,000 ...
Mobile phone payment Seamless acquires MeaWallet AS
July 14th, 2016
Seamless Distribution AB (publ) (”Seamless”) acquires the Norwegian technology company MeaWallet AS (“MeaWallet”). The purchase price amounts to approximately SEK 42,8 million and payment is made through an issue in kind of 4,574,328 new shares in Seamless. Through the ...
ICAP published its Trading Statement;Positive momentum from investment in new products
July 13th, 2016
Positive momentum from investment in new products EBS BrokerTec wins contract to deliver technology to CFETS Transaction with Tullett Prebon on track to complete later this year ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade ...
Digital currency Steem soars 1,000% in value in two weeks
July 13th, 2016
Currency behind social media website Steemit, in which users are rewarded or paid based number of ‘thumbs up’, has rocketed to more than $150m in value Steem, the digital currency behind the new social media website Steemit, soared more ...
