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Individuals and entities charged in global retail binary options fraud
September 28th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it filed two complaints in federal district courts in Florida against four individuals and three entities and issued seven administrative Orders filing and simultaneously settling charges against seven individuals and two ...
Crypto’s plunge worse than dot-com crash
September 14th, 2018
As virtual currencies plumbed new depths on Wednesday, the MVIS Crypto-Compare Digital Assets 10 Index extended its collapse from a January high to 80 per cent. The tumble has now surpassed the Nasdaq Composite Index’s 78 per cent peak-to-trough ...
Bitcoin is down 66%. But it still may be the future of money
July 11th, 2018
The price of one bitcoin (XBT) is now hovering around $6,400. That’s a more than 50% drop in 2018 and a 66% plunge from the all-time high of just under $20,000 that bitcoin hit in late December. Other cryptocurrencies, ...
Hotmail founder: cryptocurrencies are fraudulent
June 11th, 2018
The founder of Hotmail, Sabeer Bhatia, has issued a stark warning for cryptocurrency investors. Speaking to Arabian Business, the 49-year-old from Chandigarh in north-west India, who founded and then sold dotcom success story Hotmail in the late 1990s, said ...
Artificial intelligence, or can machines think?
May 11th, 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) is seen as both a boon and a threat. It uses our personal data to influence our lives without us realising it. It is used by social media to draw our attention to things we ...
Visa, MasterCard and AmEx propose a new deal for online payments
April 23rd, 2018
The way you pay for things with credit cards or debit cards at bricks-and-mortar retailers is a familiar, standardized process. There have been minor tweaks, like the recent adoption of chip cards or getting rid of signatures, but the ...
Europe’s new privacy law will change the web and more
April 16th, 2018
Consumers have long wondered just what Google and Facebook know about them, and who else can access their personal data. But internet giants have little incentive to give straight answers — even to simple questions like, “Why am I ...
Former CEO of Israeli binary options company charged with defrauding investors all over the world
March 26th, 2018
Lee Elbaz, the former CEO of Israeli binary options company Yukom Communications, was indicted by a US federal grand jury on March 22 for allegedly participating in a scheme to “defraud investors in the United States and across the ...
How to choose the best bitcoin or cryptocurrency exchange
March 1st, 2018
During the bitcoin frenzy at the end of December, Coinbase, one of the premier exchanges, halted trading briefly due to crushing volume as prices plunged. Many of Coinbase’s competitors also have suffered growing pains as digital money grows ever ...
Regulator calls on Google to ban ads for binary options, cryptocurrencies
February 6th, 2018
Following Facebook’s announcement last week that it was banning all advertising for binary options, cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings, a Canadian regulator has called on Google to do the same. Jason Roy, a senior investigator at the Manitoba Securities ...