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SEC Charges Chicago-Based Investment Fund Manager With Stealing Investor Money and Conducting Ponzi Scheme
May 30th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has announced fraud charges and an asset freeze against a Chicago-based investment fund manager accused of stealing money he raised from investors to pay personal and business expenses. The SEC alleges that Neal ...
CySec informs on ESMA regulation
May 30th, 2014
The Chairman of the Cyprus Securities & Exchange Commission (CySec), Demetra Kalogirou, has announced through a circular on the ESMA – MiFID II / MiFIR Consultation Paper and Discussion Paper to inform the Cyprus Investment Firms and Regulated Markets about the following: 1. ...
CySec presents the new framework for certifications of persons
May 30th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued the following press release: More efficient and more productive the new framework for the certification of persons: Introducing the new framework for certifications and conduct of examinations by the Cyprus Securities and ...
How Should We Tax the Digital Economy?
May 29th, 2014
The European Commission has received the final report of the High-level Expert Group on Taxation of the Digital Economy. This independent group was asked to examine key issues related to taxing the digital economy in the EU, and to ...
The Return of Moderation: Sea of Tranquility
May 29th, 2014
Volatility has disappeared from the economy and markets. That could be a problem. A decade ago, the business cycle was an endangered species. Recessions in the rich world had become rare, shallow and short; inflation was predictably low and ...
Credit Agricole Said to Accuse EU of Bias in Euribor Case
May 28th, 2014
Credit Agricole SA (ACA), which refused to settle an antitrust probe over Euribor manipulation, accused European Union regulators of bias and said they should step down from the case, according to two people with knowledge of a letter the ...
Former Barclays New York Trio Face Libor Charges in U.K. Court
May 27th, 2014
Three former Barclays Plc (BARC) New York derivatives traders appeared at a London court after being charged with manipulating Libor by U.K. prosecutors, in the second group from the British bank to face U.K. criminal action. Ryan Reich, Alex ...
European Central Bank comes down against Bitcoin
May 27th, 2014
Yves Mersch, a member of the executive board of the European Central Bank (ECB), speaking at the Bargeld-symposium of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt, has come down firmly against Bitcoin. Whereas, this will probably not come as much of ...
MOEX Q1 Net Profit
May 27th, 2014
Moscow Exchange (MOEX) today announces its financial results for the first quarter (1Q) 2014 according to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Strong earnings growth was driven by fees and commissions generated by increased trading volumes across markets, particularly the ...
Barclays Manipulated Gold as Soon as It Stopped Manipulating Libor
May 26th, 2014
If you were writing a paranoid fantasy of gold price manipulation you’d be hard pressed to come up with something more on the nose than the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority’s order against Barclays. It has everything; it is the ...
