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Commodities Brokers Marex Spectron reports $22.7M Operating Profit for 2015
May 25th, 2016
Marex Spectron Group Ltd (‘Marex Spectron’), the global commodities broker, has posted a record Operating Profit of $23 million for the year ended 31 December 2015, up from $15 million in 2014. EBITDA increased to $31 million from $25 ...
UK: Three sentenced to 20 years for defrauding investors over £80m in Ponzi scheme
May 25th, 2016
Three men convicted of defrauding investors out of almost £80m ($116.4m, €104m) in a London-based Ponzi scheme to fund their lavish lifestyles have been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison. Forty-year-old Jolan Marc Saunders, Michael Dean Strubel, 54 ...
FCA Research into the issue of de-risking
May 25th, 2016
The Financial Conduct Authority has issued a press release to make publish a research regarding the issue of de-risking. Below is the announcement as published from FCA: The FCA, along with fellow agencies and authorities, has a long-standing programme ...
IPC Systems Now Providing Connectivity to Hotspot
May 25th, 2016
Hotspot, a leading institutional foreign exchange (FX) market owned and operated by Bats Global Markets, and IPC Systems, Inc., a leading global provider of specialized communications and managed network-as-a-service solutions for the financial trading community, today announced that IPC ...
Deloitte trashed the hype around the $US180 billion fintech industry
May 24th, 2016
Deloitte just trashed the hype around the online lending industry. The accountancy and consultancy practice has done a deep dive on the online lending industry and its conclusions should make for devastating reading for anyone connected to the sector. ...
Google announced it would ban payday-loan ads from its site
May 23rd, 2016
Google announced this month it would ban payday-loan ads. One wrinkle: It is an investor in a payday lender. GV, the venture-capital investment arm of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., has been investing in online lender LendUp since before the startup launched ...
Arrests And Prosecutions Reveal Big Vagaries In Bitcoin Selling Regulations
May 23rd, 2016
U.S. laws governing bitcoin trading are vague and sometimes lead to complicated law enforcement actions, according to an article in Fast Company magazine. Anti-money laundering laws require exchanges to verify customers’ identities, but what constitutes an exchange can sometimes be unclear. ...
Lebanon declared that Tax data to be shared with foreign states in 2018
May 23rd, 2016
Automatic exchange of financial account information to be handled by specialized agency Lebanon has declared its commitment to the international standard of automatic exchange of financial account information, which aims to combat tax evasion and avoidance, according to a ...
The Eurozone is the greatest danger
May 23rd, 2016
World-wide, markets are horribly distorted, which spells danger not only to investors, but to businesses and their employees as well, because it is impossible to allocate capital efficiently in this financial environment. With markets everywhere disrupted by interventions from ...
Forex Brokers in Philipines try to stop Metrobank from closing their accounts
May 23rd, 2016
AMID a clampdown by banks on ties with money changers and remittance firms, a group representing local foreign exchange dealers is pushing back and challenging what it describes as a unilateral action of local banks to end its business ...