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FCA statement on selling high-risk speculative investments to retail clients
August 2nd, 2018
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the conduct regulator for financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, has issued a statement on selling high-risk speculative investments to retail clients following ESMA’s action on CFD products. In accordance the ...
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 ...
iSignthis released 4C quarterly results; Revenue in FY18 compared to FY17 is 363% greater
July 31st, 2018
Australian Securities and Frankfurt Stock Exchange cross listed iSignthis Ltd (ASX:ISX|FRA_DE:TA8), the global leader in RegTech for identity verification and transactional banking/payments, is pleased to provide the following business update and Appendix 4C for the quarter ended 30th June2018. ...
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 ...
Good news for EU companies exporting to Japan; A new Trade Agreement is signed
July 27th, 2018
The EU and Japan have signed an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) that will remove the majority of the EUR1bn (USD1.2bn) of duties paid annually by EU companies exporting to Japan. Negotiations toward an EPA began in 2013. An agreement ...
FCA banned four former directors of an online consumer credit broker
July 26th, 2018
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has banned David James Carter Mullins, Edward John Booth, Christopher Paul Brotherton and Mark Robert Kennedy, the former directors and shareholders of Secure My Money Limited (now dissolved). The firm took fees of over ...
Operator of shuttered bitcoin exchange pleaded guilty in defrauding investors charges
July 24th, 2018
The operator of a shuttered bitcoin-denominated exchange pleaded guilty on Monday to federal charges that he defrauded investors and lied to US securities regulators investigating the theft by hackers of virtual currency now worth about US$46 million. Jon Montroll, ...
The yen climbed, gold price increased; Key financial events coming up this week
July 23rd, 2018
The yen climbed and Japanese government bonds slid on speculation that the Bank of Japan may debate some fine tuning in its stimulus policy. Asian stocks were mixed. The rise in Japan’s 10-year benchmark bond yield matched the biggest ...
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 ...
Irish companies to pay a multi-million dollar penalty for illegally trading Binary Options
July 20th, 2018
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that on July 5, 2018, Senior Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an Opinion and Order (Order) against Defendants Intrade The Prediction Market ...
