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FCA warning against clone firm
July 4th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British financial regulatory authority, has issued a warning informing the investors that “BPEFX / BPE” (http://bpefx.com/en/index.asp) is a clone firm, thus, is not permitted to provide any financial services or products. Furthermore, FCA points ...
Piketty with Chinese Characteristics
July 4th, 2014
In his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty argues that capitalism aggravates inequality through several mechanisms, all of which are based on the notion that r (the return on capital) falls less quickly than g (growth ...
ASIC shuts down unlicensed foreign exchange trading
July 4th, 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) following its strict financial regulatory policy has commenced action in the NSW Supreme Court to stop Vault Market Pty Ltd and its sole director, Mr MD Anamul Amin, of Wiley Park, New South ...
SEC charges five traders for short selling violations
July 3rd, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged five traders for committing short selling violations while trading for themselves and Worldwide Capital Inc., a Long Island, N.Y.-based proprietary firm that earlier this year paid the largest-ever monetary sanction for ...
FCA warning against unauthorised firm
July 3rd, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British financial regulator, has issued a warning informing the investors that “Cash Saga” (cashsaga.podbean.com) is not permitted to provide any financial services or products. FCA points out that this firm is neither regulated nor ...
Direct won-yuan trading on the way
July 3rd, 2014
While North Korea is set to top the agenda at talks later today between Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Park Geun-hye, increasingly close bilateral economic relations won’t be far behind. There are two main items on ...
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper wins bitcoin auction
July 3rd, 2014
Venture capitalist and entrepreneur Tim Draper is rolling in bitcoins after winning a U.S. government auction Monday. He bought 29,656 bitcoins — a new form of digital currency — from a trove that the government seized in a raid ...
Wall Street set to extend highs
July 2nd, 2014
The rally on Europe’s main equities markets is continuing, after fresh prices data for the eurozone did not contain any unpleasant surprises ahead of this week’s European Central Bank policy meeting. The region-wide FTSE Eurofirst 300 is up 0.4 ...
Irishman fined €2,000 for Facebook ‘frape’
July 2nd, 2014
An Irish court has brought the first prosecution for criminal damage to a social media account, fining a man €2,000 for falsely posting an offensive status update on his ex-girlfriend’s Facebook account. Referred to by the slang term to ...
Central Bank sells 11% stake
July 2nd, 2014
The Central Bank of Russia announced the sale of an 11% stake in Moscow Exchange to the market. The sale is in line with the Central Bank”s obligation to completely exit the shareholder capital of Moscow Exchange by 1 ...