$63 Million in fines imposed since GDPR Law went into full effect
May 16th, 2019
GDPR: Europe Counts 65,000 Data Breach Notifications So Far European privacy authorities have received nearly 65,000 data breach notifications since the EU’s new privacy law went into full effect. In addition, regulators in 11 European countries have imposed $63 ...
GDPR close to one year anniversary; Has lived up to its potential?
May 8th, 2019
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation was celebrated as a revolution in how internet privacy could be legislated. It was a reaction to long-term concerns in the EU about information collection by tech giants like Facebook, Alphabet and ...
Cyber wars and all that
May 3rd, 2019
Behind the Huawei story, we must not forget there is a wider financial war being waged by America against China and Russia. Stories about China’s banks being short of dollars are incorrect: the shortage is of inward capital ...
Wrong handling of user data may cost up to $5B for Facebook
April 25th, 2019
Facebook said Wednesday it expects to shell out between $3 billion and $5 billion to settle the FTC’s ongoing investigation into its handling of user data, foreshadowing a potentially massive penalty from the nation’s top consumer protection agency. The ...
ISXPay Australian Card Processing Facilities
April 10th, 2019
Highlights ISXPay™ now processing Australian merchants in $AUD, $USD, $GBP, $EUR, $SGD, $HKD Includes best of class multicurrency options to complement CFD, FX & Equity brokers Incorporates full Paydentity® platform, with electronic verification, DVS and our patented payment instrument ...
U.S financial services firm pay penalty to settle failure
March 14th, 2019
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Wedbush Securities Inc. will pay a $250,000 penalty and has agreed to be censured to settle its failure to supervise charge in a pending administrative proceeding. According to the SEC’s March ...
Swiss bank UBS to appeal after fined 4.5 billion euros in French tax fraud case
February 21st, 2019
A French court found Swiss bank UBS AG guilty of illegally soliciting clients and laundering the proceeds of tax evasion, ordering it to pay 4.5 billion euros ($5.1 billion) in penalties. Shares in the Swiss bank fell as much ...
DevOps Engineer
February 20th, 2019
Duties & Responsibilities Manage deployments of mission critical systems. Configure and deploy servers. Manage and deploy micro services. Administration and support of the production environments. Provide functional and technical specifications for new software systems and deployments. Provide suggestions and ...
Former precious metals trader for UBS AG fined
February 8th, 2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an announcement to inform that Judge Vanessa Bryant of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut issued a Final Judgment and Consent Order on February 5, 2019, against Andre ...
ISXPay® Australian Card Processing Facilities
February 6th, 2019
Highlights ISXPay™ now accepting new merchants across multiple categories, including MCC 6211 and 7995 Includes best of class multicurrency options to complement CFD, FX & Equity brokers Incorporates full Paydentity® platform, with electronic verification, DVS and our patented payment ...
