Search Results for: Switzerland
PayPal Announces Launch of PayPal.Me Peer-to-peer Payments Similar to Square Cash or Bitcoin Wallets
September 4th, 2015
Receiving money from a friend, client or anyone else on PayPal just got a little bit easier. Today, the company announced the launch of PayPal.Me, a personal, vanity PayPal link that makes it easy to remind people to send ...
Millenium Capital Exchange CEO Sentenced to Federal Prison for Running Forex Ponzi Scheme
September 3rd, 2015
Stafford S. Maxwell, the former owner and Chief Executive Officer of Millennium Capital Exchange, Inc., was sentenced to three years, nine months years in prison for orchestrating a multi-million dollar foreign exchange market Ponzi scheme. “With false promises of ...
UBS to pay $1.7 mln settlement over sanctions case – U.S. Treasury
August 28th, 2015
The U.S. Treasury on Thursday said it had reached an agreement with UBS for the Swiss bank to pay a $1.7 million settlement for “apparent violations” to U.S. sanctions. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said in ...
Swiss issuers to weather forex storm
August 26th, 2015
The ‘Swiss Credit Handbook 2015’ published today by Credit Suisse contains the credit profiles of the most important Swiss issuers and participants in the Swiss franc capital market. Assessments of the creditworthiness of the different entities covered by Credit Suisse credit ...
Tax Administration new report compares performance, best practices and trends in 56 tax administrations
August 17th, 2015
Tax administrations continue to face the challenges of improving their performance while reducing costs, decreasing compliance burdens for taxpayers tackling non-compliance. Improving taxpayer services, while making non-compliance harder, is helping revenue bodies increase their efficiency and allowing governments to ...
Bitcoin: A New Global Economy
August 17th, 2015
When BitPay was founded back in 2011, bitcoin was in its infancy. It was difficult to convert local currencies into bitcoin or to find retailers who would accept it as payment. In just a few years, so much has ...
SIX opens FinTech Incubator “F10”
August 17th, 2015
FinTech Incubator “F10” is the innovation center of SIX. It is home to small interdisciplinary teams who develop promising ideas and evaluate their potential for the financial industry. In collaboration with FinTech start-ups, the team, based at Förrlibuckstrasse 10, is setting ...
FCA warning against unauthorised firm: Lamberg Kapital Ltd
August 6th, 2015
FCA has issued a press release to inform that the below firm has been providing financial services or products in the UK without its authorisation. Almost all firms and individuals offering, promoting or selling financial services or products in the ...
Dukascopy Bank acquires 100% of Alpari Japan K.K. and enters the Japanese market
August 6th, 2015
Dukascopy Bank has issued a press release to announce that the company confirms closing of taking over the Japanese Type-1 licensed broker Alpari Japan K.K. Alpari Japan K.K. will be renamed Dukascopy Japan K.K. shortly and will offer forex trading ...
SIX and Swisscom join forces to establish a mobile payment solution
August 5th, 2015
SIX and Swisscom join forces with Swiss banks to promote Paymit and create added value for customers and retail SIX and Swisscom are working towards a strategic partnership to establish a Switzerland-wide, universal mobile payment solution in collaboration with ...
