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CySec Cyprus warns for unauthorised firm providing investment and ancillary services
September 8th, 2015
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued a press release to inform public for an unauthorised firm providing investment and ancillary services in Cyprus. Specific, CySec warns that the company: ‘Lau Global Services Corp’ (https://www.mxtrade.com) 1) Is ...
ASIC Australia bans a broker and a former financial adviser from providing financial services
September 8th, 2015
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC), has issued a press release to inform in relation to its decision to ban broker Mr. Raghwa Nand Prasad from providing financial services and from engaging in credit activities for four years ...
Bad loans haunt Greek banks seeking new start
September 8th, 2015
Turned down for a 10,000 euro ($11,100) loan, George Sarris is one of hundreds of thousands of small business owners shunned by Greek banks. Pointing to the parliament building overlooking his small cafe in Athens’ Syntagma Square, the 35-year-old ...
Credit Suisse Ordered to Pay Highland Capital $287.5 Million
September 7th, 2015
Credit Suisse Group AG was ordered by a Texas judge to pay Highland Capital Management LP $287.5 million for losses on a $540 million refinancing of a shaky real estate development. Highland had sought $377 million in damages in ...
New Details on Flash Crash Trader Legal Case
September 7th, 2015
Flash Crash Trader E-Mails Show Spoofing Strategy, U.S. Says Failed orders are `costing me,’ Sarao said to tell programmer Indictment’s new details seen bolstering U.S. extradition case The British day trader accused of contributing to the 2010 flash crash ...
Putin says dump the dollar (Video)
September 4th, 2015
Russian President Vladimir Putin has drafted a bill that aims to eliminate the US dollar and the euro from trade between CIS countries. This means the creation of a single financial market between Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan ...
UBS Diverts $5 Billion of Asia Deposits to Curb Basel III Costs
September 4th, 2015
UBS Group AG has shifted more than $5 billion of riskier Asia-Pacific deposits into alternative cash investments as new rules raise the cost of holding them. The world’s largest manager of millionaires’ money has helped some clients such as ...
U.S. sanctions against Chinese firms could be next week
September 4th, 2015
The United States is preparing to sanction Chinese companies connected to the cyber theft of U.S. intellectual property as early as next week, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The FT cited three U.S. officials as saying the sanctions ...
Nerves ahead of US jobs bring down Asian stocks
September 4th, 2015
Asian stocks declined on the final trading day of the week, as investors awaited the U.S. nonfarm payrolls report for August that may play a crucial role in the Federal Reserve‘s decision about when to lift interest rates. A ...
History of Bitcoin: The journey of a virtual currency
September 3rd, 2015
The biggest thing to hit the global market since the invention of currency is the word “Bitcoin”. What started merely as an alternate electronic payment system soon became the seventh wonder of modern economy. But while most of us ...