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Blockchain shows great promise to improve accounting issues
December 29th, 2016
While blockchain tech is poised to disrupt a wide variety of industries, it is also poised to dramatically impact those professions that serve all industries. One area that appears primed for massive change is the accounting field. Here, the ...
Cyber Hack Exposes Law Firms’ Weak Spots
December 29th, 2016
Cyber Hack Exposes Law Firms’ Weak Spots Firms have made strides but still need to do more to shore up cybersecurity, experts say Major U.S. law firms have become more vigilant in recent years about the risks of cyberattacks, ...
Law Firms’ Accounts Pose Money-Laundering Risk
December 27th, 2016
Law Firms’ Accounts Pose Money-Laundering Risk Hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly siphoned from Malaysian state fund 1MDB passed through firms’ pooled accounts in U.S., prosecutors say Tens of billions of dollars every year move through opaque law-firm bank ...
Former BlackRock Manager sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for insider dealing
December 22nd, 2016
In a prosecution brought by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Mark Lyttleton, a former Equity Portfolio Manager at BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited, has today been sentenced to 18 months reduced with credit to 12 months on two counts ...
Authorities Allege $1 Billion Fraud at Platinum Partners
December 20th, 2016
In June 2014, the founder of hedge fund Platinum Partners sent a panicked email to his partner. “It can’t go on like this,” wrote Mark Nordlicht, fretting about mounting requests from investors for their money back. “This is code ...
Vietnam considers giving digital currency a legal aspect
December 6th, 2016
Last week it was Russia. Now, Vietnam is reportedly joining the leagues of countries that will soon legalize virtual currencies like bitcoin. Vietnamese-language news outlet VnEconomy reported that the government and relevant ministries are working on a proposal for ...
Lithuania is looking to attract FinTech companies
December 5th, 2016
Of all the cities lining up to poach London’s business post-Brexit, Vilnius might seem the most unlikely. Yet the Lithuanian capital has much to offer financial firms, from liveability and local talent to cutting-edge fintech regulation. Euromoney visits a ...
Former CBOE Member to pay $21.8 Million in a Ponzi Scheme
December 1st, 2016
CFTC Obtains $21.8 Million Default Judgment against Former CBOE Member Alvin Guy Wilkinson and his Connecticut-based Firms for Misappropriation of Customer Funds and Fraudulent Solicitation in Ponzi Scheme The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Judge Virginia ...
Binary options – AMF updates its list of illegally operating platforms
November 30th, 2016
Once again, the Autorité des marchés financiers (the “AMF”) is sounding the alarm and alerting Québec consumers to the dangers of binary options. The AMF wishes to stress that no business is currently authorized to market or offer binary ...
Goldman Sachs Drops Out of R3 Blockchain Group
November 22nd, 2016
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has dropped out of the R3 CEV LLC blockchain group. The investment bank was one of nine original members of R3, founded in 2014 to explore the use of the distributed database technology in Wall Street infrastructure. ...
