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Why Forex Trading is Increasing in Popularity
May 21st, 2019
Forex trading is a huge market that has been in existence for a while. Just like any other market, Forex trading is not immune to experiencing lows and highs. In 2014, forex trades recorded a transaction of up to ...
GDPR close to one year anniversary; Has lived up to its potential?
May 8th, 2019
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation was celebrated as a revolution in how internet privacy could be legislated. It was a reaction to long-term concerns in the EU about information collection by tech giants like Facebook, Alphabet and ...
iSignthis announces Baltic Banking and Probanx integrate CorePlus and CoreConnect for Ibanera
March 6th, 2019
Highlights Ibanera & Probanx sign agreement for CorePlus Core Banking System Baltic Banking Service also sign for CoreConnect interbank Gateway services Probanx and BBS to integrate products to deliver seamless customer solution Vilnius & Nicosia, 6th March 2019: iSignthis ...
Mastercard fined €570.6m
January 23rd, 2019
The European Commission has fined the card scheme Mastercard €570 566 000 for limiting the possibility for merchants to benefit from better conditions offered by banks established elsewhere in the Single Market, in breach of EU antitrust rules. Commissioner ...
This country draws Japanese Bitcoin miners seeking profit
January 16th, 2019
A combination of cheap electricity and cold weather has started to draw a growing number of Japanese bitcoin miners to Mongolia, a country sandwiched between China to the south and Russia to the north. Amid falling mining revenues in ...
Europe bets on bug bounties in fraud fight
January 8th, 2019
The European Commission (EC) is beginning the new year with a major commitment to fight fraud – and is turning to the world of white hat hackers to help them do it, reports David Penn at Finovate. The EC ...
Lebanon prepares to launch digital currency
December 7th, 2018
Lebanon’s Banque du Liban governor, Riad Salameh, said that preparations were underway to issue a digital currency in the Lebanese pound, to be used locally only. In comments made at the opening of the Anti-Cybercrime Forum in Beirut, Salameh ...
One in five people have been defrauded via their credit card in the last year in UK
November 23rd, 2018
One in five (22%) people have been defrauded via their credit card in the last year, according to a survey of 2,000 UK adults commissioned by comparethemarket.com. This equates to 11.4 million people nationwide, highlighting the rising levels of ...
Mining bitcoin uses more energy than what’s needed to excavate gold, platinum or copper: study
November 8th, 2018
Extracting a dollar’s worth of cryptocurrency such as bitcoin from the deep Web consumes three times more energy than digging up a dollar’s worth of gold, according to researchers. There are now hundreds of virtual currencies and an unknown ...
Victims of €20m French-Israeli ads scam to get some money back, not from Israel
November 7th, 2018
Seven years after French law enforcement began receiving complaints about a sophisticated advertising scam operated from France and Israel, hundreds of victims of the 20 million euro ($17.5 million) fraud are being notified by the French authorities that they ...
