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CySec announced that a new Cyprus Investment Firm got the CIF license
June 2nd, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the financial regulatory authority of Cyprus, has issued an announcement to inform that a new firm has been approved by the Commission as a Cyprus Investment Firm. According the announcement the firm Fidus Investment ...
Fifteen startups selected for EBAday Fintech Pavillion
June 2nd, 2017
Finextra and the Euro Banking Association have selected 15 of Europe’s most promising startups to present their ideas to banking delegates attending EBAday 2017, the continent’s leading payments and transaction banking event. Now in its twelth year, EBAday, a ...
Baker McKenzie enters new economy with Legal Collab
June 2nd, 2017
Baker McKenzie launches the initiative for multidisciplinary collaboration aimed at addressing pressing issues in the new economy. Baker McKenzie is to launch the Whitespace Legal Collab this June in its Toronto office – a first-of-its-kind hub for multidisciplinary collaboration ...
5 Highly Respected Financial Experts That Are Warning That A Market Crash Is Imminent
June 1st, 2017
5 Highly Respected Financial Experts That Are Warning That A Market Crash Is Imminent If everything is going to be “just fine”, why are so many big names in the financial community warning about an imminent meltdown? I don’t ...
Europe: Number of people working in the environmental economy grew faster
June 1st, 2017
Nearly 4.2 million people (full-time equivalent – FTE) in the European Union (EU) were working in the environmental economy in 2014, almost 1.4 million more than fifteen years ago. 60% of these jobs concerned activities related to environmental protection, ...
China launches controversial cyber security law
June 1st, 2017
China is to implement its controversial cyber security law this week despite foreign firms warning about its impact on their ability to do business there. The law is largely aimed at protecting China’s networks and private user information. However, ...
K.B. Concepts Group and its Owner Fined For Illegal, Off-Exchange Precious Metals Transactions
May 31st, 2017
Federal Court in Florida Orders K.B. Concepts Group, LLC and Kelvin Burgos to Pay More than $486,300 in Disgorgement and a Civil Monetary Penalty for Engaging in Illegal, Off-Exchange Precious Metals Transactions The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ...
CySec announced partial suspension of a Cyprus Investment Firm authorization
May 30th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) announces that the authorisation of the Cyprus Investment Firm Xtrade Europe Ltd (‘the Company’), number 108/10, is partially suspended for the provision of financial services and the performance of financial activities to ...
DIFC Announces Enactment of Electronic Transactions Law 2017
May 29th, 2017
Dubai International Financial Centre Authority (DIFC Authority) has announced that His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, in his capacity as the Ruler of Dubai, has enacted new Electronic Transactions Law, DIFC Law No. 2 of 2017 (“Electronic ...
Cecabank and Grant Thornton create Spain’s first blockchain banking consortium
May 29th, 2017
Spanish wholesale bank Cecabank and consulting firm Grant Thornton have created the first blockchain consortium in Spain. Called Blockchain Banking Consortium, the project intends to progressively develop the potential of blockchain in the financial sector, and according to the ...
