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Deloitte, Libra, Accenture: The work of auditors in the age of Bitcoin 2.0 technology
August 20th, 2015
Back in the late 1990s the cryptographer Nick Szabo predicted the paper-era techniques of auditing and accounting would be dramatically augmented by, and eventually integrated into, smart contracts. The last year or two has seen lots of opinion about ...
CFTC Orders Swap Dealer to Pay $200,000
August 20th, 2015
CFTC Orders Swap Dealer INTL FCStone Markets, LLC to Pay a $200,000 Civil Monetary Penalty for Failure to Supervise Swaps Trading in Violation of CFTC Regulation 23.602 The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed and simultaneously settled charges ...
China’s devaluation may be bad news for FX industry
August 19th, 2015
China’s currency devaluation should give a shot in the arm to global foreign exchange volumes as traders take advantage of and protect themselves against the surprise surge in volatility, but its longer-term impact on market activity may not be ...
SFC recovers $23 million for investors from restoration orders against insider dealer Du Jun
August 19th, 2015
Court appointed administrators, Mr John Lees and Mr Mat Ng of JLA Asia Limited, have completed distributions of restoration payments to all but three of the 297 counterparties to the insider dealing by convicted insider trader Mr Du Jun. ...
Gold price rises to $1,117.80 an ounce
August 18th, 2015
Analysts attribute increase to Chinese yuan devaluation The global prices of gold moved higher on Monday, causing retail prices in the UAE to edge slightly higher by less than a dirham per gram. Retail gold rate in Dubai went ...
British banks facing billions in fines over forex-rigging scandal
August 18th, 2015
British banks could face billions of pounds of civil claims over the rigging of the ‘wild west’ foreign exchange markets following a landmark court case in New York. Barclays, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland were among nine banks ...
J.P. Morgan Launches Aqua Algorithm to Help Buyside Find Blocks
August 17th, 2015
Looking for that elusive block trade but want to go through a bulge bracket broker? Then J.P. Morgan might have something for the buyside – a new algorithm designed to seek out blocks of stock and get a large ...
U.S. judge upholds gas market manipulation charge against BP
August 14th, 2015
A U.S. judge on Thursday found that BP Plc (BP.L) manipulated the natural gas market in 2008, as alleged by the U.S. energy regulator, but did not address a proposed $28 million (18 million pounds) fine or any other ...
SEC release no. 2015-163- Exante’s Official Response
August 13th, 2015
EXANTE would like to address the above press release by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the sensational and inaccurate headlines that followed in the local media. EXANTE holds a license with no. IS/52182 with the Malta ...
Can You Imagine The Fed Raising Rates In This World? Currency Crisis Edition
August 13th, 2015
A month ago China’s stock bubble was bursting and Greece was imploding. Yet the US Fed, in a violation of both headline sentiment and common sense, was still promising to raise interest rates come September. Fast forward to this ...
