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Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Investment Firm
July 17th, 2014
The Central Bank of Ireland has published the name of an unauthorised investment firm, Hopler Global Investment Group (Hong Kong). Hopler Global Investment Group (Hong Kong) is not authorised as an investment firm by the Central Bank. A list ...
Profit Surges at Morgan Stanley
July 17th, 2014
Morgan Stanley said on Thursday that its second-quarter earnings surged, driven largely by growth in the firm’s wealth management operations and by strong performances in investment banking and equity sales. Excluding certain charges relating to its debt and a ...
IronFX Live trading competition
July 17th, 2014
IronFX Global is delighted to announce the launch of the world famous IronFX Live Trading Competition, offering the biggest and the most luxurious rewards on the market! The best performing trader will win an incredible luxury VIP package to ...
Microsoft to Cut Up to 18,000 Jobs
July 17th, 2014
Microsoft announced on Thursday that it would eliminate up to 18,000 jobs over the next year as part of a major restructuring. Previously, the largest layoffs at the company were in 2009, when about 5,800 people were affected amid ...
Implementing the new European accounting directive
July 17th, 2014
In implementing the New European Accounting Directive, the Member States have choices which give them the chance to improve accounting in their country and those choices should be more evidence-based. This was the main conclusion of a roundtable facilitated ...
SEC Announces Charges in Scheme to Secretly Enable Lawbreakers to Run Microcap Company
July 17th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced fraud charges against four individuals and a microcap company for concealing from investors that two lawbreakers ran the company. According to the SEC’s orders instituting administrative proceedings, the mission of Natural Blue ...
LVMH and eBay settle litigation over fake goods
July 17th, 2014
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and eBay Inc have settled a long-running court battle over the sale of counterfeit luxury goods on the U.S. company’s online auction website. The companies are implementing cooperative measures aimed at protecting intellectual property ...
World Bank Report: Bitcoin is a ‘Naturally Occurring’ Ponzi
July 17th, 2014
A recently published World Bank policy research working paper on Ponzi schemes mentions bitcoin as a “naturally occurring Ponzi”, clarifying that it has nothing to do with deliberate Ponzi schemes, as some bitcoin critics have claimed. Kaushik Basu, World ...
MAS against money laundering and terrorist financing
July 17th, 2014
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is seeking public feedback on proposed new measures to further protect Singapore’s financial system from being used to launder money or finance terrorism. A consultation paper has been released on Tuesday (July 15). ...
Silver futures up 0.63% on global cues
July 17th, 2014
Tracking a rising trend in global markets, silver futures prices today rose by 0.63 per cent to Rs 45,730 per kg as speculators built fresh positions amid covering-up of short positions. At the Multi Commodity Exchange, silver for delivery ...
