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Oil for gold – the real story
October 27th, 2017
Following an article in the Nikkei Asia Review, which reported China will shortly introduce an oil futures contract priced in yuan, there has been some confusion about what it means. The article pointed out that in combination with existing ...
Israel bans binary options industry; Operatives have three months to shut down
October 24th, 2017
The Knesset on Monday unanimously passed a law to ban Israel’s binary options industry, a vast, multibillion dollar scam that has defrauded millions of victims worldwide for a decade. The law, which will go into effect three months from ...
Web Shield & iSignthis to deliver unified legal entity & UBO KYC
October 19th, 2017
Highlights: Web Shield’s Know Your Customer Corporate/Business (KYCB) InvestiGate Platform to feature Know Your Customer (KYC) for individual UBO’s, PSC’s and Directors iSignthis Service to be enabled for all Web Shield customers globally from Nov 2017 Web shield will ...
Oil markets jump on fears of new Iran sanctions
October 16th, 2017
Oil markets jumped on Monday on concerns over potential renewed U.S. sanctions against Iran as well as conflict in Iraq, while an explosion at a U.S. oil rig and reduced exploration activity supported prices there. Brent crude futures LCOc1, ...
The upcoming increase in interest rates
October 6th, 2017
Last week, both Janet Yellen of the Fed and Mark Carney of the Bank of England prepared financial markets for interest rate increases. The working assumption should be that this was coordinated, and that both the ECB and ...
FBI arrests Israeli binary options CEO
September 27th, 2017
The CEO of an Israeli binary options company accused of defrauding investors out of millions of dollars was doubtless surprised to find herself surrounded by FBI agents shortly after arriving in the United States last week. Binary options is ...
Accountancy giant Deloitte hit by cyber attack
September 26th, 2017
One of the world’s biggest accountancy firms had been targeted by a sophisticated cyber attack that has compromised the confidential emails of some of its blue-chip clients. Deloitte is one of the ‘big four’ global accountancy firms and one ...
Closure of investigation into KPMG’s audit of HBOS plc
September 19th, 2017
The Financial Reporting Council (‘FRC’) announces the closure of its investigation into the conduct of KPMG’s audit of HBOS plc for the year ended 31 December 2007. The Executive Counsel to the FRC has, following a detailed investigation, concluded ...
Majority of accounting firm bosses rated ‘good’ or ‘excellent’
September 4th, 2017
A survey of UK bosses found that 61% of those working in professional services including accounting and law firms are positive about their bosses although one in 10 (9%) were slated as ‘poor’ managers, showing that bad management habits ...
Review on how Asian markets move; Yen gains, Asia stocks stall
August 23rd, 2017
Donald Trump grabbed investors’ attention in an otherwise listless Asian trading session, with the yen rising and S&P 500 Index futures slipping with the Mexican peso as the U.S. president said he may end the North American Free-Trade Agreement. ...
