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Regulatory Fine
June 26th, 2015
Global Regulators Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) Fines Imposed for Year 2015 and 2016
Facebook Challenges Bitcoin? Payment Icon Added To Desktop Users
June 25th, 2015
Facebook has continued unveiling its Facebook payments platform, adding the desktop option on Wednesday for many users. CCN reported in March how the social media website had introduced payments on its messenger application, and it seems that today it has rolled ...
How EU data protection law could interfere with targeted ads
June 24th, 2015
The successor to the 20-year-old European data protection directive has inched closer to becoming law, having been approved by the Council of Ministers, which represents each of the 28 EU member states. This has led to howls of anguish from some ...
SEC Charges Unregistered Brokers in EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program
June 24th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two firms that illegally brokered more than $79 million of investments by foreigners seeking U.S. residency. The charges are the first against brokers handling investments in the government’s EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program ...
Oil-Price Drop Isn’t Tonic for Sonic
June 22nd, 2015
Sonic shares have momentum, but geography and valuations provide a risk Up nearly fourfold since 2012, it seems like Sonic Corp. warrants a snazzy prefix, perhaps “super” or even “hyper.” Gaudy share-price gains among quick-serve eateries are common these days, of course, as ...
MENA economic growth: A good start for Egypt
June 18th, 2015
It is not without its challenges, but the economy is improving – steadily if unspectacularly. A curious place these days, Egypt. Politically, it continues to make liberal-minded observers queasy, whether for sentencing ousted – and democratically elected – Islamist ...
SIX Swiss Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange step up their collaboration
June 9th, 2015
SIX Swiss Exchange and Shanghai Stock Exchange have agreed in a memorandum of understanding to step up their collaboration. A delegation from China is visiting the Swiss stock exchange today, where the two parties will sign the document in ...
Bank of Russia: On Action Plan to Increase Financial Inclusion
June 3rd, 2015
To streamline its policy in the financial market the Bank of Russia has developed an action plan to increase financial inclusion of the population and entrepreneurs. The document envisages the methodology to assess the level of financial inclusion with due account to recommendations of G20 and Alliance for Financial ...
Biggest MasterCard Issuers Scuttled Deal on Target Data Breach
June 3rd, 2015
Citigroup, Capital One and J.P. Morgan Chase vetoed MasterCard’s deal with Target over hacked credit-card data Citigroup Inc., Capital One Financial Corp. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. rejected a $19 million pact backed by MasterCard Inc. last month over the huge Target Corp. data breach, resulting in the settlement’s unexpected ...
BitFury is Acquiring a Privatized Land Plot in the Republic of Georgia to Build a Technology Park
June 2nd, 2015
BitFury Group, the leading Bitcoin Blockchain infrastructure provider and transaction processing company, announced today that it is acquiring a privatized 185,000 sq. m land plot located in Gldani District in Tbilisi from the Georgian National Agency of State Property ...
