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FCA urges public to report and speak out against fraudulent investment schemes
October 27th, 2017
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the conduct and prudential regulator for financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, urges the public to get in touch if they have been contacted by a company offering what they think ...
SEC Announces Measures to Facilitate European Union’s MiFID II’s Research Provisions
October 27th, 2017
Following consultation with European authorities, and in response to concerns that investors could lose access to valuable research, the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued three related no-action letters. These letters are designed to provide market ...
Euro against the dollar to a three-month low; Early European and Asian markets review
October 27th, 2017
Asian shares gained on Friday as technology shares were boosted by upbeat earnings from U.S. high-tech giants while the euro hovered near three-month low against the dollar after the European Central Bank extended its stimulus. The Australian dollar fell ...
Apple’s Co-Founder Says Bitcoin Is Better Than Gold
October 26th, 2017
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is betting on Bitcoin, saying that the cryptocurrency could become a better standard of financial value than gold or the U.S. dollar. Wozniak argued that Bitcoin is more stable and less prone to arbitrary supply ...
Beware of these unauthorised Forex providers
October 26th, 2017
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR), regulators of the financial markets in France, warn the public against the activities of several websites and entities proposing Forex investments without being ...
Former Private Equity Firm Partner Charged With Secretly Billing Clients for His Vacations and Salon Visits
October 26th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Mohammed Ali Rashid, a former senior partner at Apollo Management L.P., with defrauding his fund clients by secretly billing them for approximately $290,000 in personal expenditures, including his family vacations, visits to a ...
Deutsche Bank to Pay $220 Million over Libor interest rate manipulation
October 26th, 2017
Deutsche Bank AG agreed to pay 45 U.S. states a combined $220 million to resolve a probe into interest-rate manipulation, more than twice the amount of Barclays Plc’s settlement last year. The states’ investigation found that the German bank’s ...
Elliott Wave Analysis: German DAX Looking For Final Bullish Wave
October 25th, 2017
Elliott Wave Analysis: German DAX Looking For Final Bullish Wave Here we see price trading in a bullish impulse, with price specifically trading at the end of wave 4). Wave 4) is a corretive wave that, can unfold as ...
Bitcoin Is Paying Out Dividends Now — Just Not to Everyone
October 25th, 2017
On top of stupendous capital gains, investors in bitcoin are also getting a dividend — if they’re lucky. A split in the blockchain created a new offshoot in the form of bitcoin gold on Tuesday, with bitcoin holders receiving ...
FMA commentary on ICOs and cryptocurrencies
October 25th, 2017
The Financial Markets Authority (FMA), a regulatory authority for the capital markets and financial services in New Zealand, has published commentary on initial coin offers (ICOs) and cryptocurrency services alongside online resources for investors. Innovation is increasingly shaping financial ...
