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Boom times for Ireland’s legal profession
December 4th, 2018
UK solicitors are creating their own ‘backstop’ by moving to Ireland in spirit rather than body, and the Law Society of Ireland director general says it is a booming economy that is driving the legal market. Boom times for ...
The psychology of systemic consensus
November 16th, 2018
We are all too familiar with established views rejecting change. It has nothing to do with the facts. Officialdom’s mind is often firmly closed to all reason on the big issues. To appreciate why we must understand the ...
EU needs single anti-money laundering authority, says thinktank
November 5th, 2018
The European Union should set up a single anti-money laundering (AML) authority with the power to levy big fines to tackle the stream of scandals across member states, Brussels-based thinktank Bruegal has said in a new report. The thinktank ...
CySEC announced withdrawal of Cyprus Investment Firm license
November 1st, 2018
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued today an announcement to inform investors for the withdrawal of the authorisation of a Cyprus Investment Form. In accordance the announcement published, CySEC, on its meeting of 29th October 2018, ...
Money-laundering watchdog to set first cryptocurrency rules by June
October 22nd, 2018
The global watchdog for money laundering will set up its first rules on oversight of cryptocurrencies by June, a major step towards creating international standards for an asset currently subject to patchy regulations. The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force ...
U.S. District Court finds that virtual currencies are commodities
October 9th, 2018
On September 26, 2018, Senior Judge Rya W. Zobel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, entered an order holding that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has the power to prosecute fraud involving virtual currency ...
Investors Alert: The Cyprus financial regulator issued warnings
October 8th, 2018
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued warnings to inform investors that the websites binatex.com and primustrades.com have not been authorised by CySEC, and the company Brisk Liquidity Ltd through the website www.briskliquidity.nz, uses the name of ...
Is money-laundering scandal at Danske Bank the largest in history?
September 27th, 2018
The Russian-speaking caller refused to give a name but the threat was explicit: “Do you really feel you can walk home safely at night?” It was 2013 and officers at the Estonian branch of Danske Bank were beginning to ...
Former FIFA official jailed in bribery scandal
August 30th, 2018
The Former FIFA official jailed for nine years after he was convicted last year of racketeering and other charges related to a corruption scandal. Juan Angel Napout, from Paraguay, the former head of South America’s footballing body, was sentenced ...
Data protection complaints in UK doubled since GDPR took effect
August 28th, 2018
The number of data protection complaint reported to UK regulators has nearly doubled since the introduction of new data protection laws, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said. Saturday marks three months since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ...
