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FRB: Agencies Issue Proposed Rule on Minimum Requirements for Appraisal Management Companies
March 24th, 2014
Six agencies today issued a proposed rule that would implement minimum requirements for state registration and supervision of appraisal management companies (AMCs). An AMC is an entity that serves as an intermediary between appraisers and lenders and provides appraisal ...
Budget 2014: Practitioners expect revenue-raisers
March 19th, 2014
TAX PRACTITIONERS expect plenty of revenue-raising activity in today’s Budget, as the chancellor looks to fund spending giveaways for businesses. Capital allowances for major infrastructure projects, announce more support for flood victims, a VAT zero-rating on supplies for exporters ...
EBA, ESMA and EIOPA consult on supervisory practices for financial conglomerates
March 12th, 2014
The Joint Committee of the three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs – EBA, ESMA and EIOPA) launched today a public consultation on its draft Guidelines on the convergence of practices aimed at ensuring consistency of supervisory coordination arrangements for financial ...
Cryptojacker arrested in Ukraine over EUR 1.8 million mining scheme
January 26th, 2024
The National Police of Ukraine (Національна поліція України), with the support of Europol, has arrested an individual believed to be the mastermind behind a sophisticated cryptojacking scheme. The 29-year-old individual was apprehended in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, on 9 January. Three ...
Which are the main elements of a transaction monitoring tool?
April 21st, 2023
The Institute of Continuous Professional Training and Education (ICPTE) offers an extensive variety of Pre-Recorded and Live Online Courses created by Professional and qualified Instructors with years of experience in their field. ICPTE platform allows You the flexibility to ...
Virtual assets-based money laundering and other crypto-enabled crimes
December 14th, 2021
The 5th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptocurrencies on 7-8 December 2021, co-organised by the Basel Institute on Governance, INTERPOL and Europol, saw several thousand participants from the public and private sectors gathering to exchange knowledge on virtual ...
ISX Demerger of profitable European businesses & associated assets
September 17th, 2021
iSignthis Limited (ASX: ISX), a leading payments and identity technology company, has issued an announcement to inform that: iSignthis Limited (ASX: ISX) is exploring a proposed demerger of subsidiary ISX Financial EU Ltd (ISXFEU), by way of a reduction ...
Data protection: Commission adopts adequacy decisions for the UK
July 13th, 2021
The Commission has today adopted two adequacy decisions for the United Kingdom – one under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the other for the Law Enforcement Directive. Personal data can now flow freely from the European ...
Banking faces seismic changes
July 13th, 2021
The role of commercial banks in the global economy is changing, with lending to governments and their agencies now more important than lending to goods and services industries. It is a trend which is due to continue. The ...
Inflation, asset and consumer prices
June 25th, 2021
“The Fed finds itself between a rock and a hard place: either it keeps inflating or the whole confidence-based valuation of financial assets collapses. Either it raises interest rates or the dollar collapses.” There has been occasional speculation ...
