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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 ...
Easier to get a loan and demand for loans increased for euro area firms and households
July 26th, 2018
It became easier for euro area firms and households to borrow money in the second quarter of 2018 and demand for loans also increased. The negative impact of non-performing loans (NPLs) on credit conditions is decreasing, as the July ...
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 ...
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 ...
Beware: Supervisory authorities around the world issued investor protection warnings
July 25th, 2018
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Spain (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores – Cnmv), Austria (Financial Market Authority – FMA), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – FINMA), France (Authorité des Marchés ...
EY acquires new cryptocurrency technology
July 25th, 2018
Ernst & Young (EY) has acquired technology assets and related patents from Elevated Consciousness Inc, a San Francisco, CA-based startup focused on developing solutions for the crypto-asset ecosystem. The Crypto-Asset Accounting and Tax (“CAAT”) tool connects with multiple cryptocurrency ...
EU Authority fines five Banks for €2.48 million in total
July 24th, 2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has fined Danske Bank, Nordea Bank, SEB, Svenska Handelsbanken and Swedbank €495,000 each and issued five public notices for negligently breaching the Credit Rating Agencies Regulation (CRAR). ESMA found that the five ...
17 EU countries warned for failing to implement cybersecurity law
July 24th, 2018
The European Commission has sent warnings to 17 EU countries for failing to implement cybersecurity law, after missing a May 9 deadline. The European Commission has issued warnings to seventeen European Union countries because the countries involved missed a ...
The license of a Forex trading provider has been suspended by the Cyprus Regulator
July 23rd, 2018
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), the independent supervisory Authority of the investment services market in Cyprus has issued an announcement to inform that the authorisation of the Cyprus Investment Firm IGM FOREX LTD (‘the Company’), number 309/16, is ...
Basic Attention Token and Stellar are forming a bullish triangle pattern
July 20th, 2018
We noticed that some of cryptocurrencies can be completing a big bullish triangle pattern. In 2017, we have seen sharp and impulsive rise in the whole Crypto market, but later in the beginning of 2018 cryptocurrencies began to ...
