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Alert: High Bitcoin prices inspire a wave of scams
March 24th, 2017
Earlier this month, the price of a single Bitcoin eclipsed the price of an ounce of gold for the first time ever. This news, coupled with the exploding adoption of its underlying technology – blockchain – beyond the financial world, ...
CFPB fines credit reporting agency for deceiving consumers
March 24th, 2017
CFPB Fines Experian $3 Million for Deceiving Consumers in Marketing Credit Scores Credit Reporting Company Misstated How Credit Scores It Sold Were Used The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) took action against Experian and its subsidiaries for deceiving consumers ...
Millions of hacked Bitcoin accounts offered for sale on dark web
March 23rd, 2017
A famous Dark Web vendor known by their handle of “DoubleFlag” is selling databases of eleven Bitcoin forums on a popular dark web marketplace. The databases were stolen between 2011 to 2017 from widely visited forums providing information about ...
French retailer Carrefour launches new online banking service
March 22nd, 2017
French retailer Carrefour <CARR.PA> on Tuesday joined the crowded French online banking field with the launch of C-zam, a current account for anyone over 18 that can be opened on presentation of two identity cards and activated online in ...
The Netherlands and some Nordic countries jail less in Europe
March 21st, 2017
Europe’s prison population falls, but there is no progress in tackling overcrowding, says annual Council of Europe survey The number of people held in European prisons decreased by 6.8% from 2014 to 2015, although prison overcrowding remained a problem ...
FINRA warns for Binary Options Follow-Up Schemes
March 18th, 2017
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today issued an Investor Alert warning anyone involved in binary options trading through unregistered non-U.S. companies to be on guard for a one-two punch: losses followed up by potentially fraudulent pitches to help ...
The FinTech in Mena region
March 17th, 2017
Fintech (financial technology) is gaining traction globally and has already arrived in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena). Financial technology describes tech-enabled products and services that improve traditional financial services. They are faster, cheaper, more convenient or more ...
China’s new bitcoin rules call for identity check
March 17th, 2017
China’s central bank is moving to regulate its domestic bitcoin industry, circulating new guidelines that, if enacted, would require exchanges to identify clients and adhere to banking regulations. Recent scrutiny by the central bank has already led exchanges to ...
What FBI do to combat Binary Options fraud
March 16th, 2017
Stock options. It’s a pretty common investment term meaning, in general, that one party sells or offers to another party the opportunity to invest by buying a particular stock at an agreed upon price within a certain period of ...
The ‘robot lawyer’ giving free legal advice to refugees
March 9th, 2017
A technology initially used to fight traffic fines is now helping refugees with legal claims. When Joshua Browder developed DoNotPay he called it “the world’s first robot lawyer”. It’s a chatbot – a computer program that carries out conversations ...
