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Administrative fine and ban for executive directors of PFX Financial Professional; CySEC’s announcement
May 13th, 2020
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued today a press release to announce its final decision regarding executive directors of PFX Financial Professional. The CySEC’s Press Release says: The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (“CySEC”) today announces that ...
European Central Bank digital currency – a flight of fancy?
May 13th, 2020
Speech by Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the ECB and Vice-Chair of the Supervisory Board of the ECB, at the Consensus 2020 virtual conference, 11 May 2020 11 May 2020 A recent survey among 66 central ...
Coronavirus may drive change in precarious employment
May 12th, 2020
In 2019, 2.3% of employees in the European Union (EU) aged 20-64 had a precarious job, meaning that their work contract did not exceed three months’ duration. The share of precarious employment, as a percentage of total employment, has ...
Beyond the pandemic – What will the criminal landscape look like after Covid-19?
May 12th, 2020
New Europol report assesses the impact of the pandemic on serious and organised crime across three phases. Based on criminal information from investigations in the Member States, Europol is assessing the impact of the pandemic across three phases; current, ...
Oil prices boosted by Saudi Arabia pledge to deepen output cut
May 12th, 2020
Oil futures rose on Tuesday, boosted by an unexpected commitment from Saudi Arabia to deepen production cuts in June in a bid to help drain the glut in the global market that has built up as the coronavirus pandemic ...
Geopolitics post COVID-19
May 7th, 2020
Before the coronavirus caused governments to impose lockdowns, whole economies, markets and even currencies were already on course to be destroyed by a vicious downturn in bank lending at a time of contracting trade and record debt. The ...
FCA secures orders for victims of unauthorised share scheme; Nearly £3.62m in restitution
May 7th, 2020
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the conduct regulator for financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, has issued today a press release to inform that the High Court today ordered four individuals and one company to pay ...
Pound Sterling higher against Euro and Dollar
May 7th, 2020
The British Pound went higher on Thursday after the Bank of England opted to keep interest rates and its quantitative easing programme unchanged, a decision that might have surprised some market participants that were looking for more easing to ...
Dollar slips against commodity currencies; the euro was down against the pound
April 23rd, 2020
The dollar slipped against the currencies of oil-producing states on Thursday, giving up earlier gains as a bounce in crude prices gave succour to markets shaken by the massive coronavirus-induced drop in demand. As Brent crude surged on signs ...
Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency gets revamp in response to backlash
April 22nd, 2020
Facebook’s planned cryptocurrency Libra will be linked to individual national currencies and overseen by global watchdogs in a scaled-back revamp it hopes will win regulatory approval. The prospect of Facebook’s 2.5 billion users adopting Libra has led to intense ...
