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UK Watchdog proposes changes to rules for crowdfunding platforms
July 30th, 2018
Following a post-implementation review of its crowdfunding rules, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is opening a consultation on new rules for loan-based crowdfunding platforms. The changes the FCA is proposing are designed to address the ways in which the ...
Valuing Gold In A World Awash With Dollars
July 27th, 2018
Summary In this article I point to the pressures on the Fed to moderate monetary policy, but that will only affect the timing of the next cyclical credit crisis. That is going to happen anyway, triggered by the Fed ...
European Central Bank released monetary policy decision on interest rates
July 27th, 2018
At its meeting on July 26, 2018, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank decided that the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit facility will remain ...
Trade truce boosts the euro and hurts the US dollar
July 27th, 2018
The DXY dollar basket dropped to 94.08, down from a high of 95.65 last week. The dollar is under pressure from a range of negative drivers. Friday’s GDP print could be the blow off top for US growth and ...
FCA banned four former directors of an online consumer credit broker
July 26th, 2018
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned David James Carter Mullins, Edward John Booth, Christopher Paul Brotherton and Mark Robert Kennedy, the former directors and shareholders of Secure My Money Limited (now dissolved). The firm took fees of over ...
Artificial Intelligence improves efficiency significantly for law firms
July 26th, 2018
Law firms have been slower to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technology than other sectors but clients say it improves time efficiency by 50 per cent. Law firms in the UK could improve their time efficiency by 50 per cent ...
Mobile Biometrics will verify trillions of dollars in mobile payments by 2023
July 26th, 2018
Mobile biometric technology is going to play a much bigger role in payments over the next few years, according to a new market forecast from Juniper Research. The UK-based firm predicts that by 2023, such technology will be used ...
Dollar slides against emerging market currencies
July 26th, 2018
The dollar fell against emerging market currencies Wednesday as investors awaited a meeting between President Donald Trump and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. The dollar was recently down 1% against the Brazilian real and lost 1.2% against the Turkish ...
Elliott wave Analysis: AUDUSD and S&P500
July 25th, 2018
Aussie can be unfolding a complex correction within wave 4, which looks more and more as a triangle pattern. A triangle pattern is a five-wave, sideways movement which unfolds prior to the final leg within a trend, so once ...
How many people work for the government in your country?
July 25th, 2018
Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, has recently issued a report showing the percentage of people in European countries working in the government sector. According the report, government employment accounted for 16 % of employment in the ...
