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Deloitte latest Big Four player to offer legal services
August 3rd, 2018
Deloitte Legal International will be a fully licensed foreign law practice independent from other Deloitte entities serving clients across South East Asia. Deloitte’s latest venture will see them offering legal services through a new foreign law practice. The top ...
Smartphone rankings shaken up once again as Huawei surpasses Apple
August 1st, 2018
According to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, smartphone vendors shipped a total of 342.0 million units during the second quarter of 2018 (2Q18), resulting in a 1.8% decline when compared to ...
UK Watchdog proposes changes to rules for crowdfunding platforms
July 30th, 2018
Following a post-implementation review of its crowdfunding rules, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is opening a consultation on new rules for loan-based crowdfunding platforms. The changes the FCA is proposing are designed to address the ways in which the ...
Valuing Gold In A World Awash With Dollars
July 27th, 2018
Summary In this article I point to the pressures on the Fed to moderate monetary policy, but that will only affect the timing of the next cyclical credit crisis. That is going to happen anyway, triggered by the Fed ...
Deutsche Bank subsidiaries will pay nearly $75 million to settle charges
July 23rd, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that two U.S.-based subsidiaries of Deutsche Bank AG will pay nearly $75 million to settle charges of improper handling of “pre-released” American Depositary Receipts (ADRs). The case stems from a continuing SEC investigation ...
State or Individual?
July 20th, 2018
The most important question faced by the human race is almost never addressed in modern times: which should be the master, the state over the individual or the individual over the state? It is particularly relevant today, bearing ...
The reason EU fined Google €4.34 billion
July 19th, 2018
The European Commission has issued an announcement to inform that decided to impose a total fine of €4.34 billion to the technology giant Google. According the announcement, The European Commission has fined Google €4.34 billion for breaching EU antitrust rules. ...
Trump’s Whirlwind European Tour
July 18th, 2018
President Trump visited Britain on a much-anticipated visit. The political situation in Washington is very different from when Mrs May last visited. In Washington, President Trump appears to have successfully gained control of and tamed the Deep State, while ...
Australasian lawyers see benefit of doing things differently
July 17th, 2018
Lawyers in Australia and New Zealand are more open to new ways of doing things, a comprehensive new study has found. Peerpoint, Allen & Overy’s consultant lawyer platform, surveyed more than 1,000 lawyers and law students around the world ...
5 Things you should know about trading cryptocurrency in 2018
July 16th, 2018
Almost a decade has already passed since the first cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, was introduced by Satoshi Nakamoto. This new form of a digital asset has remained out of the mainstream until 2013 when Bitcoin became actively traded across a number ...