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Purse.io Immune to Brawker Amazon Wishlist Scam;”What Happens Under the Hood Actually Matters”
November 17th, 2014
Following recent coverage of a potential exploit on services that rely on Amazon Wishlist for order fulfillment, Purse.io, a Bitcoin service that allows users to “buy” goods on Amazon using Bitcoin at a heavily discounted price, has clarified that ...
EU says Starbucks’ Dutch tax deal may be illegal
November 14th, 2014
A deal between Starbucks Corp’s (SBUX.O) and Dutch authorities may be illegal state aid as it allows the world’s biggest coffee chain to make payments on a lower corporate income tax base, European Union antitrust regulators said on Friday. The comments ...
Iraq and Kurds Reach Deal on Oil Exports and Budget Payments
November 14th, 2014
Iraq’s central government and the autonomous region of Kurdistan reached an interim agreement on Thursday over oil exports and budget payments, at least temporarily easing a bitter dispute that has threatened the government’s stability. The standoff began earlier this ...
Bubble Bobble – blowing and bursting bubbles
November 14th, 2014
Those of you that grew up in the mid 80’s might remember the pre-internet/smartphone era when playing electronic games involved leaving your home and physically going to an amusement park or arcade. This usually meant having to put metal ...
U.S. stocks slip from records; oil falls
November 13th, 2014
U.S. equity prices edged off record highs on Wednesday led by weakness in the financial sector after six global banks were fined a total of $4.3 billion for currency rigging, while the oil market sagged on concerns about a ...
Forex traders plotted strategy in secret chats
November 13th, 2014
Traders of major banks fined $4.3 billion Wednesday for attempted manipulation of foreign exchange markets used electronic chat rooms to plot their moves. Transcript excerpts of conversations released Wednesday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission show traders from U.S. banks Citibank(C) ...
Report on role of Bank of England officials in relation to conduct issues in the foreign exchange market
November 12th, 2014
The Oversight Committee has today published an independent report by Lord Grabiner QC. This follows his investigation into whether, between 2005 and 2013, any Bank of England official was involved in, or aware of, conduct issues in the foreign ...
U.S. and China Reach Deal on Climate Change after Months of Talk
November 12th, 2014
China and the United States made common cause on Wednesday against the threat of climate change, staking out an ambitious joint plan to curb carbon emissions as a way to spur nations around the world to make their own cuts in ...
Exponential and XE.com announce two-year exclusive partnership for mobile web, in-app monetisation
November 12th, 2014
Exponential Interactive, the global provider of advertising intelligence and digital media solutions, today announced an expansion of their exclusive partnership with online foreign currency and rate exchange resource XE.com, enabling XE to monetise their in-app and mobile web inventory ...
FCA fines five banks £1.1 billion for FX failings
November 12th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has imposed fines totalling £1,114,918,000 ($1.7 billion) on five banks for failing to control business practices in their G10 spot foreign exchange (FX) trading operations: Citibank N.A. £225,575,000 ($358 million), HSBC Bank Plc £216,363,000 ...
