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Apple joins Google, Facebook and Microsoft in AI research group
January 30th, 2017
Apple is joining fellow tech giants Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and IBM as the sixth founding member of the recently-formed artificial intelligence research group – the Partnership on AI. The non-profit said Apple has been “involved and collaborating with ...
CFTC General Counsel Jonathan L. Marcus to Depart Agency
January 27th, 2017
U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) Acting Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo today announced that General Counsel Jonathan L. Marcus will depart the agency. Mr. Marcus joined the agency in 2011 as Deputy General Counsel for Litigation, and ...
ACCA announced impressive pass rates
January 17th, 2017
ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) today announces impressive pass rates from the latest December 2016 exam sitting, which saw over 5,000 students worldwide complete their final exams, bringing the annual total to 19,514. The announcement comes as ACCA ...
Two traders charged in $26 Million Stock Manipulation Scheme
December 13th, 2016
SEC Files Charges in $26 Million Stock Manipulation Scheme The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two New Jersey-based traders with manipulating more than 2,000 NYSE- and NASDAQ-traded stocks and reaping more than $26 million in profits from their ...
Playtech buys CHF for $120m
November 14th, 2016
Playtech (LSE: PTEC) today announces it has agreed to acquire Consolidated Financial Holdings A/S (“CFH”), a technology company with products including a leading Straight Through Processing (“STP”) brokerage which provides retail brokers with multi-asset execution, prime brokerage services, liquidity ...
FIA joined four industry trade associations in a proposed guidance on central counterparty risk
October 24th, 2016
FIA joined four industry trade associations in a response to proposed guidance from the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) on resilience and recovery of central counterparties (CCPs). FIA, along with the Global Financial Markets ...
Plus500 reports a revenue increase of 14% at $236.3m
October 24th, 2016
Plus500, an online service provider for retail customers to trade CFDs internationally, has published a trading update for the three and nine months ended 30 September 2016. In the nine months ended 30 September 2016, revenue was $236.3m an ...
BDO announced two key international appointments
September 23rd, 2016
Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO LLP has announced two key international appointments as the firm continues to expand in its private client business across the BDO global network. UK-based tax partners Wendy Walton and Richard Montague have been named Head of BDO ...
AMF bans Rodeler Limited (24option) from providing financial services in France
August 3rd, 2016
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has issued an announcement to inform that: The service provider Rodeler Limited (regulated by the Cypriot financial regulatory agency) offers access to binary options, particularly Forex, through the website “http://www.24option.com/fr” and does not ...
International law firm Pinsent Masons achieved 5.5% revenue growth
July 5th, 2016
The firm achieved global turnover of £382.3m, and increased profit per equity partner to £550k. This represents 5.5% revenue growth on the previous year and cumulative revenue growth of almost a fifth over the past three years. The Advanced ...
