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Industry Experts take to stage for Fintech EUROPE London 2016
September 20th, 2016
Managers of Wealth (MoW) event FinTech EUROPE 2016 is to be held in central London on 27 October, 2016. The speakers represent many industry leading organisations and have extensive experience which contributes to their interesting, stimulating and insightful topics ...
Coinbase Adds Ethereum; Plans to Support Any Cryptocurrency With Potential
September 19th, 2016
Coinbase, one of the largest Bitcoin wallet service providers and cryptocurrency trading platforms, has added support for Ethereum as a part of its initiative to integrate more cryptocurrencies in the near future that carry massive potential. Brian Armstrong, the ...
FINRA fines financial services company $850,000
September 19th, 2016
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced that it has fined Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. $850,000 for failing to detect the conversion of more than $370,000 from five customer brokerage accounts by one of its registered representatives. Ameriprise failed ...
ASIC warns IPOs issuers when using Social Media Strategies on their marketing campaigns
September 19th, 2016
ASIC has warned firms and issuers involved in initial public offerings (IPOs) in Australia to ensure their marketing campaigns comply with the letter and spirit of the law, particularly when using emerging social-media strategies. An ASIC review of marketing ...
PwC acquires data technology firm Selera Labs
September 15th, 2016
PwC is strengthening its tax reporting practice with the acquisition of Selera Labs, a market leading data technology firm. The acquisition comes at a time when tax authorities around the world are requiring increasing amounts of data from organisations. ...
Coinpit Takes First Steps Toward Trustless Bitcoin Futures Exchange
September 15th, 2016
Coinpit is taking significant and innovative steps to offer a safer alternative to Bitcoin’s custodial futures exchanges. Thanks to Bitcoin’s multi-signature technology, users that store bitcoins on Coinpit remain in complete control of their funds. Even if the exchange is ...
PwC’s legal arm posts 24% revenue jump
September 14th, 2016
Revenue at PwC Legal has soared this financial year, from £48.5m to £59.9m, an increase of 25%. Led by senior partner Shirley Brookes, the legal arm of the accounting giant has also posted net income of £11m. Of the total revenue, ...
More than 1,000 new legal firms will be created this year in UK
September 13th, 2016
More than 1,000 new solicitor firms will be created in 2016, official statistics suggest, a 30% increase on the last two years. From 1 January to 31 July, 612 new business entities were authorised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. ...
Europol, Interpol unite to combat money laundering with digital currencies
September 13th, 2016
Europol, INTERPOL, and the Basel Institute on Governance have formalised the establishment of a tripartite partnership for a working group on money laundering with digital currencies. The working group will aim to: • gather, analyse, and exchange non-operational information regarding ...
PwC reports double digit growth for second consecutive year
September 12th, 2016
Revenue up 11% to £3.4bn Growth is reported in all business areas, with particular client demand for cyber security, data analytics and technology services Total number of UK equity partners increased to 926, from 885 last year (4.6% increase) ...
