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A Digital Single Market for Europe: EU Commission sets out 16 initiatives to make it happen
May 6th, 2015
The Internet and digital technologies are transforming our world – in every walk of life and in every line of business. Europe must embrace the digital revolution and open up digital opportunities for people and businesses. How? By using ...
Grant Thornton Partners vote to become shared enterprise firm
May 6th, 2015
Grant Thornton UK LLP has become the first major accountancy firm to launch an all employee consultation on a model for shared enterprise which will see all 4,500 of its people have a say and a stake in the ...
Big Four to beat law in dumping the billable hour
April 29th, 2015
Pricing experts have predicted that accounting firms will scrap the billable hour before law firms, but neither sector is willing to change. Steve Major (pictured), founder of consultancy Pricing Power, told Lawyers Weekly that accounting firms are moving away from the ...
Flash crash trader to face court again
April 29th, 2015
A UK financial trader accused of contributing to the 2010 Wall Street “flash crash” is due to appear in court again on Wednesday. Navinder Singh Sarao, who first appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court last Wednesday when he said he ...
Independent Reserve launches first Australian multi-currency bitcoin exchange
April 28th, 2015
Independent Reserve, the Bitcoin market, announced today that it had become the first Australian exchange to offer Bitcoin trading directly in both U.S. and Australian dollars. CEO Adrian Przelozny said the development would allow Australians to trade Bitcoin without ...
ValueStream Expands FinTech Funding Up to $1.5M for Select Startups
April 27th, 2015
ValueStream is excited to announce an expansion in our FinTech funding for companies in the ValueStream Development Lab, a startup accelerator purpose-built to service the needs of innovative technology and data providers to the Financial Services industry. With our ...
Dogecoin Founder Exits Crypto Community Citing ‘Toxic’ Culture
April 24th, 2015
Dogecoin founder and Adobe senior manager Jackson Palmer has announced he is taking an “extended leave of absence” from the cryptocurrency community. Calling the ecosystem “toxic”, Palmer used the occasion to blast aspects of the industry, while encouraging users ...
Lawyers warned that legal automation could dull their brains
April 23rd, 2015
Lawyers need to be careful not to lose some of their ‘deep human talent’ in the coming years as software systems take over many of their traditional tasks – a process which has dulled human expertise in other sectors, ...
ESMA is seeking information on new developments in virtual currency investment
April 22nd, 2015
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has launched a call for evidence on investments using virtual currency or distributed ledger technology. ESMA is seeking information and views from stakeholders on new developments in how virtual currency technology is ...
Central Bank of Germany issued April Monthly Report
April 22nd, 2015
Structural developments in the German banking sector The financial and sovereign debt crisis which has afflicted the euro area for more than seven years now has clearly left a mark on the financial market, having forced monetary policymakers to ...
