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Leaked EU legal overhaul: Tech companies to share ‘e-evidence’ data with police within 10 days
March 30th, 2018
Messaging apps and other digital services will be forced to give their users’ data to law enforcement authorities within ten days of receiving requests, or six hours in emergencies, according to a leaked draft of an upcoming EU legal ...
FCA statement on EU withdrawal following the March European Council
March 29th, 2018
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) welcomes the agreement reached on the terms of an implementation period that will apply following the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. The implementation period is intended to operate from 29 March 2019 until ...
Financial supervisory authorities from around the world issued investor protection warnings
March 28th, 2018
The supervisory authorities of the Italy (CONSOB), United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), France (Autoritè des Marchers Financiers – AMF), Ireland (Central Bank of Ireland), British Columbia (British Columbia Securities Commission – BCSC), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory ...
Former CEO of Israeli binary options company charged with defrauding investors all over the world
March 26th, 2018
Lee Elbaz, the former CEO of Israeli binary options company Yukom Communications, was indicted by a US federal grand jury on March 22 for allegedly participating in a scheme to “defraud investors in the United States and across the ...
The Death Of Democracy
March 23rd, 2018
Anyone who thinks democracy doesn’t matter may be in for a rude shock later this year, when we know the result of America’s mid-term elections. The Deep State is on course to take control of Congress. If this happens, ...
Malta’s supervisory authority issued a notice against a bank and its director
March 23rd, 2018
Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA), the single regulator for financial services in Malta, has issued a notice to inform public concerning Pilatus Bank Limited and its director Mr Ali Sadr Hasheminejad. The notice issued says: Pilatus Bank Limited, (“the ...
The egregious errors of static statistics
March 22nd, 2018
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. Lord Macaulay wrote this nearly two hundred years ago. His aphorism is particularly apposite of modern politicians, ...
CySEC announced that an Administrative Services Provider waived its authorisation
March 12th, 2018
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (‘CySEC’) announces that, on 31st December 2017, the Company Providing Administrative Services Veinard Gelingen Ltd (the ‘Company’), waived its authorisation pursuant to section 16(1) of the Law Regulating Companies Providing Administrative Services and ...
Brexit legal text signals greater EU urgency
March 8th, 2018
Brussels is not waiting around anymore for the U.K. to get its act together on Brexit. The European Commission’s publication of a 120-page draft withdrawal treaty will signal a new approach in the Brexit process that might best be ...
This is the first country in the world to recognize a cryptocurrency as legal tender
March 5th, 2018
The Marshall Islands is creating its own digital currency in a bid to raise money. In doing so it becomes the first country in the world to recognize a cryptocurrency as legal tender. The small Pacific Island nation passed ...
