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Citigroup’s $600M about-face
October 31st, 2014
Citigroup restated its previously released third-quarter profit report by $600 million Citigroup stunned investors late Thursday when it cut its third-quarter earnings by $600 million, blaming an increase in allowances for legal expenses. The global banking giant said the ...
FXCM pays administrative penalty of $180,000 to Canadian regulator
October 27th, 2014
The Financial and Consumer Services Tribunal (Tribunal) approved a settlement agreement between Forex Capital Markets, the Financial and Consumer Services Commission (FCNB) and the Manitoba Securities Commission, which requires Forex Capital Markets to pay administrative penalties for non-compliance with ...
CySec and FSC warn against LiveFX
October 27th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) and the FSC Mauritius have recently been made aware that LiveFX is displaying a fraudulent copy of an Investment Dealer, Full Service Dealer (excluding underwriting) Licence portraying the logo FSC Mauritius which is accessible ...
EU Value-Added Tax Reforms Closing The VAT Gap
October 27th, 2014
The European Commission has published its latest VAT Gap study, which shows that an estimated EUR177bn (USD223.9bn) in value-added tax (VAT) revenues was lost due to non-collection or non-compliance in 2012 – a figure equal to 16 percent of ...
SEC Sanctions Florida-Based Auditor for Circumventing Rules
October 27th, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission sanctioned a Florida-based auditor for violating federal laws and regulations requiring lead audit partners to periodically rotate off their audit engagements with a publicly traded company in order to preserve the integrity of the ...
CoinCorner Now Accepts Debit and Credit Cards for Bitcoin Purchases
October 24th, 2014
British bitcoin exchange CoinCorner now allows clients to purchase bitcoin and some altcoins with debit and credit cards. The feature went live yesterday, making CoinCorner one of very few places in the British Isles to accept direct card payments ...
73 Swiss banks ask U.S. to revise proposed tax amnesty deals
October 24th, 2014
Lawyers representing 73 Swiss banks seeking to avoid a tax-evasion probe by U.S. authorities wrote a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice raising questions over a dozen demands, including the banks’ cooperation with other nations. In the letter ...
The dark market for personal data urges for new laws
October 17th, 2014
Companies should disclose the information they sell about us. Having eroded privacy for decades, shady, poorly regulated data miners, brokers and resellers have now taken creepy classification to a whole new level. They have created lists of victims of ...
AMF warns of the dangers of forex market trading for individual investors
October 13th, 2014
The AMF, France’s financial markets regulator, has begun an online publicity campaign to increase public awareness of the risks of trading in the forex market, following the growing number of complaints from investors and many advertisements for investors to trade ...
Ex-wife of Glock founder sues him over millions
October 10th, 2014
Lawsuit accuses gun maker of conspiring to cheat her out of money she is owed. After working decades to build a wildly successful firearms company, Gaston Glock conspired with associates to push out his ex-wife and business partner of ...
