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Facebook and Google accused of violating GDPR on first day of the new European Privacy Law
June 6th, 2018
When Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of members of the European Parliament, he insisted that Facebook was ready for Friday, the day when the European Unions’s strict new data privacy law went into effect. But users in Europe have ...
Société Générale to pay millions for LIBOR and Euribor manipulation charges
June 5th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order filing and settling charges against Société Générale S.A. (Société Générale or the Bank) for attempted manipulation of and false reporting in connection with the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) for ...
AMF warns retail investors and public about aggressive “boiler room”
June 5th, 2018
The Autorite des Marches Financiers (AMF), an independent public authority in France responsible for ensuring that savings invested in financial products are protected, that investors are provided with adequate information and supervising the orderly operation of markets, has issued ...
Use of behavioural insights may help educate investors, say IOSCO/OECD
June 1st, 2018
Financial regulators, public authorities, and other organisations are increasingly using behavioural insights to educate investors to make more informed financial decisions, according to a report published today by the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) and the Organisation for ...
ESMA publishes final guidelines on MiFID II suitability requirements
May 30th, 2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its Final Report on Guidelines on certain aspects of the MiFID II suitability requirements. The assessment of suitability is one of the most important requirements for investor protection in the ...
Shares of luggage giant Samsonite suspended over governance and accounting claims
May 25th, 2018
Luggage giant accused of ‘questionable accounting practices’ and ‘poor corporate governance’ as shares are suspended in Hong Kong. Shares in Hong Kong-listed luggage maker Samsonite International plummeted by more than 11 per cent in early trading in Hong Kong ...
Here’s the first deal of the legal sports betting era: Paddy Power Betfair is buying FanDuel
May 24th, 2018
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court gave the go-ahead to legal sports gambling. Now we have the first result of that deal: Paddy Power Betfair, a U.K.-based sports-betting heavyweight, is buying FanDuel, a big fantasy sports operator. This ...
Regulators launch operation to crack down suspicious cryptocurrency investment schemes
May 22nd, 2018
Securities regulators across the United States and Canada announced dozens of investigations Monday into potentially deceitful cryptocurrency investment products, the largest coordinated crackdown to date by state and provincial officials on bitcoin scams. As many as 70 investigations have ...
How has the European equity market responded and performed in the wake of MiFID II?; AMF Chairman
May 22nd, 2018
Robert Ophèle, the Chairman of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) that regulates participants and products in France’s financial markets, gave a speech during TradeTech Europe 2018 – 25 April 2018 about “How has the European equity market responded ...
EU set to remove Bahamas, St Kitts from tax haven blacklist
May 21st, 2018
European Union finance ministers are set to remove the Caribbean islands of the Bahamas and Saint Kitts and Nevis from an EU list of tax havens next week, EU documents show. The two islands had been included in the ...
