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CySec: renouncement of license
April 14th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission announces that, on 18 February 2014, the CIF «Magline Investments Ltd» (‘the Company’), which provided investment services via the domain www.trading247.com, renounced its authorization pursuant to section 24(1)(b) of the Investment Services and ...
Amazon.com To Acquire comiXology, A Digital Comics Company, As Retailer Seeks To Expand In Online Publishing
April 11th, 2014
Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement to acquire comiXology, a seller of digital comics, for an undisclosed amount. New York-based comiXology offers graphic novels from more than 75 publishers as well as individual contributors. And, ...
CySec: renouncement of licence
April 11th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission announces that, on 18 February 2014, the CIF «Magline Investments Ltd» (‘the Company’), which provided investment services via the domain www.trading247.com, renounced its authorization pursuant to section 24(1)(b) of the Investment Services and ...
CySec: acquisition of licences
April 11th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that the following companies have successfully obtained the CySec licence as ASPs: MMG Trust (Cyprus) Ltd Pageserve Limited Forpost Corporate Services Ltd Therefore, they are ...
FASB Provides Guidance on Reporting Discontinued Operations
April 11th, 2014
The Financial Accounting Standards Board has issued new guidance on representing when a company or organization discontinues its operations. Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-08, Presentation of Financial Statements (Topic 205) and Property, Plant, and Equipment (Topic 360): Reporting Discontinued ...
Regulators suggest firms take deep dive into audit quality
April 11th, 2014
While acknowledging that auditors are under unprecedented scrutiny, an international association of audit regulators is asking audit firms to analyze causes of problems in audits globally in hopes of finding remedies. Lewis Ferguson, chair of the International Forum of ...
Greek 10-year yields rise day after five-year sale
April 11th, 2014
Greek 10-year government bond yields rose on Friday, underperforming other euro zone debt, a day after Greece returned to the market with a well received five-year bond sale. Ten-year yields stood 4 basis points higher at 6.018 percent. Greece ...
The billion-dollar bash – how post-crisis investigation work is changing the way law firms advise banks
April 11th, 2014
With banks setting aside eye-watering sums of money to meet liabilities generated by the fallout from the financial crash, in-house legal departments and law firms are having to rethink their business models. Alex Newman reports By any standards, $23bn ...
ASIC obtains orders cancelling 15 million shares held in Northwest Resources Limited
April 11th, 2014
Following an application by ASIC, the Federal Court of Australia has ordered the cancellation of 15 million shares in ASX-listed Northwest Resources Limited (Northwest) that were held in the name of Craigside Company Limited (Craigside), a company incorporated in ...
Police to wear digital cameras as part of courts efficiency plan
April 11th, 2014
Modernisation of the criminal justice system will give police mobile devices to record interviews and crime scenes Police officers will be expected to record interviews at crime scenes on mobile devices and deliver filmed evidence online under a digital ...
