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EU Authority fines five Banks for €2.48 million in total
July 24th, 2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has fined Danske Bank, Nordea Bank, SEB, Svenska Handelsbanken and Swedbank €495,000 each and issued five public notices for negligently breaching the Credit Rating Agencies Regulation (CRAR). ESMA found that the five ...
Initial Coin Offerings: A total of $13.7 billion USD raised the first five months of 2018; Report
July 5th, 2018
The Crypto Valley Association has teamed up again with Strategy&, the strategy and consulting division of CVA member PwC, to launch the June 2018 edition of their quarterly reports on the global Initial Coin Offering (ICO) market. The report, ...
80 Percent of the Total Bitcoin Supply Have Now Been Mined
January 15th, 2018
This weekend marks a milestone for bitcoin as 80 percent of the currency has now been mined into circulation, this means there’s only 20 percent left to mine. Satoshi Nakamoto’s protocol was one of the first to introduce digital ...
ECB fined Irish bank for a total of €2.5m
August 29th, 2017
The ECB has fined Irish bank PTSB €2.5m for breaking liquidity rules, its first such penalty The European Central Bank (ECB) has issued its first penalty against a bank since tough new rules were introduced in the wake of ...
CySec announced a total fines of €195,000 on directors of a Cyprus Investment Firm
July 10th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has today announced a series of financial penalties on the directors of Falcon Brokers Limited (www.new.falconbrokers.com; the “Company”), and has banned all key persons of the Company from exercising professional activity related ...
CySec announced more than 1 Million euro in total fines to Members of the Board of Directors of Cyprus Popular Bank
June 22nd, 2017
The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform the public that it has investigated the compliance of: Cyprus Popular Bank Public Co Ltd, its Board of Director Members’ and its Group ...
FCA secures eight confiscation orders totalling almost £2.2 million
May 24th, 2017
The Central Criminal Court has made confiscation orders against the two final defendants who were convicted of offences following one of the FCA’s largest investigations into unauthorised activity. The FCA’s investigation, known as Operation Cotton, led to eight convictions ...
FXSpotStream reports more than $342 million in total Volume for April 2017
May 2nd, 2017
FXSpotStream (FSS), a bank owned consortium providing a multibank FX streaming aggregation and a matching service supporting trading in FX Spot, Forwards, Swaps, NDF/NDS and Spot Precious Metals has issued a report to publish its Volumes for April 2017. ...
Financial fraud losses in UK totalled £768.8 million in 2016
April 1st, 2017
Financial fraud losses across payment cards, remote banking and cheques totalled £768.8 million in 2016, an increase of 2 per cent on the previous year, figures from Financial Fraud Action UK show. The new data shows banks and card ...
SFC fined in total $15 million Merrill Lynch Far East and Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific)
March 27th, 2017
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has resolved its concerns with Merrill Lynch Far East Limited (MLFE) and Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Limited (MLAP) over internal control failures. Under the resolution, the SFC reprimanded and fined them a total of ...
