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Swiss banks crack down on suspected Saudi money laundering
December 6th, 2017
Banks in Switzerland have started reporting suspicious account activities among some of their Saudi clients to the Swiss Money Laundering Reporting Office, reports the Financial Times. The regulator is reportedly reviewing data on potentially suspicious transactions linked to Saudi ...
Bitcoin Price Achieves New All-Time High at $7,598; Why is the Market So Optimistic?
November 6th, 2017
Once again, the bitcoin price has achieved a new all-time high at $7,598 on November 5, as the market continues to be optimistic about the mid-term performance of bitcoin. In Japan and South Korea, two regions in Asia that ...
Visa released real-time payments platform in Europe
November 3rd, 2017
Visa has announced the European launch of Visa Direct – a real-time payments platform that allows companies to leverage Visa’s global reach and scale to transform domestic and cross-border payments for businesses and consumers. Visa is working with payment ...
A Market That is Finally Warming Up to Reverse Mortgages
October 24th, 2017
While the global pension crisis looms, the Brexit move may not have been a bad decision at all. The UK is seeing a greatly reduced pension deficit of £65 billion, which is a fair amount less than their American counterparts ...
Bitcoin market cap tops $128 billion for the first time in its history
October 23rd, 2017
Institutional investors are avoiding Bitcoin, saying it is the most crowded trade in global markets. On Monday, the crypto-currency experienced a surge in trading volume that boosted it to $7710 a coin ($US6026) and surpassed a market capitalisation of ...
Web Shield & iSignthis to deliver unified legal entity & UBO KYC
October 19th, 2017
Highlights: Web Shield’s Know Your Customer Corporate/Business (KYCB) InvestiGate Platform to feature Know Your Customer (KYC) for individual UBO’s, PSC’s and Directors iSignthis Service to be enabled for all Web Shield customers globally from Nov 2017 Web shield will ...
Mastercard released advanced alert for cards to fight fraud
October 3rd, 2017
Mastercard, a technology company in the global payments, has issued a press release to announce that Mastercard Arms Issuers with Predictive Tool to Combat Account Related Fraud from Data Breaches New service helps reduce fraud-related costs while improving the ...
South Korea bans all new cryptocurrency sales
September 29th, 2017
South Korea’s financial regulator on Friday said it will ban raising money through all forms of virtual currencies, a move that follows similar restrictions in China on initial coin offerings. The Financial Services Commission said all kinds of initial ...
Who Manipulates Gold Prices and Why
September 21st, 2017
While major international events, like nuclear tests carried out by North Korea, affect gold prices and result in a situation when investors prefer to invest their money in the noble metal, economic expert Dimitri Speck believes that there are ...
MAS Sets Up International Advisory Panel for Cyber Security
September 20th, 2017
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced today that it has established a Cyber Security Advisory Panel (CSAP), comprising cyber security thought leaders from around the world. The CSAP will advise MAS on strategies to enhance the cyber resilience ...
