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Cyprus Investment Firm fined; The reason?
November 16th, 2020
The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (the ‘CySEC’) has issued an announcement to inform for the imposition of an administrative fine to a Cyprus Investment Firm (CIF). In accordance with the announcement, the CySEC at its ...
EU expecting COVID-19 dent in 2020 VAT collections
September 30th, 2020
The European Commission has published its latest VAT gap report, which show that EU countries lost an estimated EUR140bn (USD165.7bn) in VAT revenues in 2018, down EUR1bn in nominal terms on the year prior. The “VAT gap” measures the ...
CySEC announced settlement for €270.000 with a Cyprus Investment Firm
September 29th, 2020
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission («CySEC») has issued an announcement to inform that a settlement has been reached with a Cyprus Investment Firm. CySEC, under article 37(4) of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission Law of 2009, has ...
Big banks moved trillions despite knowing money was illegal; FinCEN
September 22nd, 2020
Leaked documents reveal major flaws in the global effort to curb money laundering. Major international banks are in hot waters again. Confidential documents leaked to journalists show that some of the biggest international banks continued to do business with corrupt ...
GDPR fines mount
September 2nd, 2020
In the over two years since Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was implemented on the EU and EEA, a team of financial analysts from Finbold has studied the fines and penalties that data protection authorities have imposed within ...
Major tech corporations face multi-billion-euro cases for alleged GDPR breaches
August 17th, 2020
Two multinational data processing firms are facing legal action that could amount to billions of euros for alleged breaches of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Privacy Collective, a non-profit Foundation that pursues claims for violations of ...
Interactive Brokers LLC to pay more than $12 million for AML and Supervision violations
August 17th, 2020
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed and simultaneously settled charges against Interactive Brokers LLC, a registered futures commission merchant (FCM), for failing to diligently supervise its officers’, employees’, and agents’ handling of several commodity trading accounts and failing ...
Gold at $2k+. So why the fuss?
August 10th, 2020
There appears to be no way out for the bullion banks deteriorating $53bn short gold futures positions ($38bn net) on Comex. An earlier attempt between January and March to regain control over paper gold markets has backfired on ...
CySEC decided to reach a settlement with a Cyprus Investment Firm
August 5th, 2020
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has today issued an announcement to inform about its decision for reaching a settlement with a Cyprus Investment Firm (CIF). With this announcement, CySEC would like to note the following: CySEC, under article ...
CySEC announced settlement with insurance company for possible market abuse violations
July 24th, 2020
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission («CySEC») has announced that a settlement has been reached with an insurance company based in Cyprus for possible violation of the Market Abuse legislation. In accordance with the CySEC’s decision: CySEC, under article ...
