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Coronavirus: Call for single EU tracking app with data protection
April 7th, 2020
Europe’s data protection watchdog has called for a single coronavirus app to be used across the EU, instead of every country making its own. Several countries are developing tracking apps, but privacy advocates warn of the dangers they might ...
Emerging Asia’s best currencies become worst amid virus woes
April 2nd, 2020
The exact same factors that propelled the Indonesian rupiah and Thai baht to the top of the Asian pack in 2019 are dragging them lower now. The two currencies are the worst performers in emerging Asia this year as ...
ESMA recommends action by financial market participants for Covid-19 impact
March 16th, 2020
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), together with National Competent Authorities (NCAs), is closely monitoring the situation in view of the continuing impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on financial markets in the European Union (EU). Following a Board ...
Adopting Trading for the API Economy
March 5th, 2020
Written by: by Panagiotis Charalampous, Head of Community Management of cTrader at Spotware One of the most important characteristics of good software design is its extensibility. This design principle has become more and more of a must for any ...
Europe embarks on economic revolution with landmark climate law
March 5th, 2020
Europe wants to make it illegal by 2050 to emit more greenhouse gases than can be removed from the atmosphere. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled a draft law on Wednesday that would commit the region to ...
Gold rises on policy stimulus expectations as G7 meets
March 3rd, 2020
Gold prices rose on Tuesday on hopes of interest rate cuts by central banks as leading policymakers from the Group of Seven (G7) nations met to discuss how to contain the economic impact from the global coronavirus outbreak. Spot ...
Yen rates keep being influenced by fear around the recent outbreak of coronavirus
February 21st, 2020
Risk-recovery has been a hot topic of the week in Asia. The experts are trying to predict the future of the Asian stocks, Wall Street futures and Treasury yields. A decrease in the number of the new coronavirus cases ...
Alert! CySEC issued a warning for unregulated entities
February 20th, 2020
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued an announcement to inform investors that the following websites do not belong to an entity which has been granted an authorization for the provision of investment services and/or the performance ...
Facial recognition technology breaches GDPR says Vestager
February 19th, 2020
Margrethe Vestager, EU’s tech chief Margrethe Vestager said on Thursday that facial recognition technologies breach the need to give consent, which is stipulated in Europe’s data protection rules (GDPR). However, the Commissioner backed their use in case of public ...
Coronavirus and credit – a perfect storm
February 19th, 2020
This article posits that the spread of the coronavirus coincides with the downturn in the global credit cycle, with potentially catastrophic results. At the time of writing, analysts are still trying to get to grips with the virus’s ...
