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NRGbinary is a case of how scammers can hide in gaps between regulators and defraud thousands of investors
October 6th, 2016
In early 2013, a young Israeli businessman registered a web domain in London for a company called NRGbinary.com. The online options trading website offered clients the opportunity to make large amounts of money from simple bets on the movement ...
Man in Limassol – Cyprus in hunger strike as he believes that a Forex company cheated him with his investment
October 5th, 2016
As a Cyprus news website reports, a man from Romania living in Limassol – Cyprus begun a hunger strike as he believes that a Forex company cheated him and asks for 40,000 euro that he believes that belongs to ...
ESMA agreed on Italian Bank BMPS short selling ban by CONSOB
October 4th, 2016
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today an opinion agreeing to extending an emergency short selling prohibition, for a period of 90 calendar days, by the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB) on net short ...
CySec fined Binary provider IQ Option for €180.000
October 3rd, 2016
The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) wishes to inform investors that, at its meeting held on 5 September 2016, decided to impose a total administrative fine of €180.000 to the CIF IQ Option Europe Ltd (‘the Company’) ...
FX Firm Joins Mexican Bitcoin Exchange’s $2.5 Million Fundraise
September 29th, 2016
Bitcoin exchange startup Bitso has raised $2.5m to make it easier for the underbanked in Mexico to gain access to financial services. Among the investors is Mexico-based foreign exchange, Monex Group, which last year conducted $160bn in transactions in Europe, the ...
CFTC Expands Interest Rate Swap Clearing Requirement
September 29th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) today expanded the existing clearing requirement for interest rate swaps. The Commission voted unanimously to approve an amendment to Commission regulation 50.4(a) that establishes a new clearing requirement determination. The new clearing ...
Merrill Lynch Charged With Trading Controls Failures That Led to Mini-Flash Crashes
September 27th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Merrill Lynch has agreed to pay a $12.5 million penalty for maintaining ineffective trading controls that failed to prevent erroneous orders from being sent to the markets and causing mini-flash crashes. An ...
CySec announced law violations by Cyprus Popular Bank Public Co Ltd and fined Members of its Board
September 21st, 2016
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform that the Commission has examined the matter of compliance of Cyprus Popular Bank Public Co Ltd with the Insider Dealing and Market Manipulation (Market Abuse) Law and ...
Accounting software maker prepares for IPO
September 21st, 2016
Accounting software maker BlackLine Inc is preparing for an initial public offering that could value it at more than $1 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. An IPO of Los Angeles-based BlackLine, which the ...
CySec has issued a Circular regarding MIFID II Guidelines on Cross Selling Practices
September 15th, 2016
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued a Circular to inform the Regulated Entities about the following: 1. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its Guidelines on Cross Selling Practices under MiFID II (‘the Guidelines’) to ensure ...
