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ISXPay: Further Australian card acquiring/processing contracts executed
October 11th, 2017
Highlights ISXPay gains further traction in Australia with customer addition Card Transactions in excess of $52m per annum to be processed, cleared and settled to Merchants bank accounts by ISXPay Average Net Margin in excess of 77 basis points ...
Elliott Wave Analysis: USD Index and Crude OIL
October 10th, 2017
Elliott Wave Analysis: USD Index and Crude OIL USD Index is making a new sharp decline away from 94.30 region, where bigger degree wave 5 was completed. We now see a five-wave fall in play with price trading ...
Russia to ban Bitcoin Exchange websites, says Central Bank Official
October 10th, 2017
Russia will block access to websites of exchanges that offer crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin, Russian Central Bank First Deputy Governor Sergei Shvetsov said on Tuesday. He called them “dubious”. Russian financial authorities initially treated any sort of money issued ...
CySec authorised two new Cyprus Investment Firms
October 10th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the financial regulatory authority of Cyprus, has issued announcements to inform that two new firms have been approved by the Commission as Cyprus Investment Firms. According the announcement, the firms Wise Wolves Finance ...
US to raise crowdfunding ceiling to $5 million in regulatory shake-up
October 9th, 2017
The U.S. Department of the Treasury released a report detailing how to streamline and reform the U.S. regulatory system for the capital markets. Treasury’s evaluation of current capital market regulations found that there are significant reforms that can be ...
Sanctions against Russia have cost European Union €30bn
October 9th, 2017
New research by the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO) suggests the EU’s economic sanctions against Russia introduced three years ago have cost European countries billions of euro. The survey, which was conducted at the request of the European Parliament ...
European shares brush off Catalan crisis with another weekly gain
October 9th, 2017
European shares rose for the fourth consecutive week on Friday as confidence over the region’s economic recovery outweighed worries over the Catalonia crisis, whose impact remained confined to Spanish equities. While Spain’s IBEX .IBEX ended a tumultuous week down 1.9 percent ...
Business investment rate up to 23.2% in the euro area
October 6th, 2017
In the second quarter of 2017, the business investment rate was 23.2% in the euro area, compared with 22.9% in the previous quarter. The business profit share in the euro area was 40.8% in the second quarter of 2017, ...
Early market review: Stocks in Japan and Australia climbed
October 6th, 2017
Equities in Asia followed their U.S. counterparts higher and the dollar retained gains after a slew of data and comments from Federal Reserve officials helped ratchet up bets that the U.S. economy is strong enough to withstand higher interest ...
Government officials fired when caught mining bitcoin using government computers
October 5th, 2017
Two government officials of the Crimean Council of Ministers were caught mining bitcoin using government computers and were subsequently fired. They reportedly installed “malicious software” on the government’s server and programmed over a dozen computers to mine bitcoin. The ...
