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UBS, HSBC Offshore Dealings Thrust Into Panama Papers Spotlight
April 5th, 2016
Report describes UBS’s dealings with law firm Mossack Fonseca Both banks say they comply with laws for vetting customers UBS Group AG and HSBC Holdings Plc — two of the banks hardest hit amid a U.S. crackdown on customers’ illicit ...
Venture Capitalists Inject Nearly Half a Billion in Bitcoin throughout 2015
April 4th, 2016
The year 2015 has been a particularly good one for Bitcoin startups all over the world, as a lot of money was raised over the course of 12 months. A recent report by Consultancy in the Netherlands shows how ...
The Pitfalls Of Buying Gold And Silver Online, And How To Avoid Them
April 4th, 2016
Back in 2014, online bullion dealer Tulving shocked its many customers by suddenly failing. See Coinweek’s story: How does $40M of Gold and Silver Disappear: The Collapse of Tulving Company Last week another one bit the dust: ...
Forex, binary options and online financial scams; AMF joined forces with other bodies to eredicate the problem
April 4th, 2016
The Autorite Des Marches Financiers (AMF) has issued a press release to inform that the AMF, the Paris public prosecutor, consumer affairs watchdog DGCCRF, and prudential authority ACPR joined forces to eradicate the problem with Forex, binary options and ...
Five tips on How Investors Can Avoid Getting Fooled
April 4th, 2016
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) offers five tips to help investors avoid being tricked out of their money. “April 1st is a day to indulge in silly hoaxes and pranks. But there’s nothing funny about a fraudster carrying ...
Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin
April 4th, 2016
A network of secret offshore deals and vast loans worth $2bn has laid a trail to Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. An unprecedented leak of documents shows how this money has made members of Putin’s close circle fabulously wealthy. Though the ...
Interactive Brokers Group Reports Brokerage Metrics for March 2016
April 4th, 2016
Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: IBKR) an automated global electronic broker and market maker, today reported its Electronic Brokerage monthly performance metrics for March. Highlights for the month included: 658 thousand Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs), 3% higher ...
Time for deal with Greece’s creditors is running short
March 31st, 2016
The government is striving to find common ground with the country’s creditors on measures worth 3 percent of Greece’s gross domestic product, or 5.4 billion euros, before the Eurogroup meeting on April 22, so as to have completed its ...
Asia markets mixed; Nikkei up 0.4%, Kospi down 0.5%
March 31st, 2016
Asia markets traded mixed on Thursday, with some markets partially retracing their advances following Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen’s cautious stance on the path of tightening earlier this week. Japan’s Nikkei 225 wavered between gains and losses before trading up 0.41 percent, while ...
Hackers Breach Law Firms, Including Cravath, Weil Gotshal
March 30th, 2016
Federal investigators explore whether cybercriminals stole confidential information to be used for insider trading Hackers broke into the computer networks at some of the country’s most prestigious law firms, and federal investigators are exploring whether they stole confidential information ...
