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Hackers Breach Law Firms, Including Cravath, Weil Gotshal
March 30th, 2016
Federal investigators explore whether cybercriminals stole confidential information to be used for insider trading Hackers broke into the computer networks at some of the country’s most prestigious law firms, and federal investigators are exploring whether they stole confidential information ...
Virtual Currency that is rival to Bitcoin, attracts attention and has soared in value
March 28th, 2016
A new virtual gold rush is underway. Even as Bitcoin, riven by internal divisions, has struggled, a rival virtual currency — known as Ethereum — has soared in value, climbing 1,000 percent over the last three months. Beyond the ...
France fines Google for breaking ‘right to be forgotten’ law
March 28th, 2016
The nation can’t control what people access outside its borders, Google says. Europe’s “right to be forgotten” law is a boon to privacy, helping individuals hide embarrassing Facebook posts and other “out-of-date and irrelevant” results from search engines. However, ...
Apple preps one-touch shopping for the mobile Web
March 25th, 2016
Apple is preparing to bring one-touch online shopping to the mobile Web later this year, enabling consumers with Safari browsers running on the consumer electronic group’s phones and tablets to use Apple Pay and TouchID to make a purchase. ...
LCCA sets standard for cloud computing in legal industry
March 23rd, 2016
The Legal Cloud Computing Association has released the first set of 21 cloud security standards crafted specifically for the legal industry. They are intended to help law firms and attorneys choose software providers that meet basic security measures and ...
What actually is … Blockchain technology?
March 23rd, 2016
A new technology is causing a stir in the FinTech community: Blockchain has many market experts believing that it is the greatest achievement of the past decade for financial technology and the most important digital innovation since the internet ...
Ex-Goldman Sachs Banker Bansal Gets Probation Over Fed Leak
March 23rd, 2016
Bansal pleaded guilty to getting documents from friend at Fed Prosecutors had sought a sentence of as long as a year An ex-Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who got a former colleague to steal documents from the Federal Reserve ...
FINMA reduces obstacles to FinTech
March 18th, 2016
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA has published a new circular facilitating video and online client identification. In addition to removing a number of unnecessary obstacles from its regulations, FINMA also supports the introduction of a new licensing ...
Why Latin American economies are turning to bitcoin
March 17th, 2016
The economic prospects for Latin America in 2016 are grim. With political instability in some of the region’s largest economies, as well as a general slump in prices in oil and other commodities, businesses and consumers are facing a depression and, in the ...
Sugar tax surprise in Budget – but growth forecasts cut
March 17th, 2016
George Osborne has unveiled a tax on sugary drinks in a wide ranging Budget dominated by gloomier growth forecasts. The chancellor blamed the slowdown on a “dangerous cocktail” of global risks and said the UK had to “act now ...
