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Beware over Covid-19 business email fraud
August 27th, 2021
Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, has recently published a media release to inform that a sophisticated fraud scheme using compromised emails and advance-payment fraud has been uncovered by authorities in Romania, the Netherlands and Ireland as part ...
Business registrations and bankruptcies in the EU
August 27th, 2021
This post presents data on the number of new business registrations and the number of bankruptcy declarations in the European Union (EU) and in the euro area (EA) until the second quarter of 2021. The data is based on ...
European stocks inch lower
August 27th, 2021
European stocks inched lower on Friday ahead of U.S. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell’s speech that could offer hints on the timeline for slowing of its bond purchases programme. The pan-European STOXX 600 index slipped 0.2% in early trading, ...
cTrader Web & Desktop 4.1 Releases Offering Direct Crypto Deposits
August 16th, 2021
Spotware has announced the release of its cTrader Web 4.1 and cTrader Desktop 4.1 versions – updates that spice up the web and desktop versions of cTrader with some of the most sought-after additions for traders across both Windows ...
Cyprus Investment Firm fined for non compliance with an Article of the Market Abuse Regulation
August 16th, 2021
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (the ‘CySEC’) has issued an announcement to inform that has decided to impose an administrative fine to a Cyprus Investment Firm (CIF). In accordance with the CySEC’s announcement: The Board of the Cyprus ...
Cryptocurrency prices today: Bitcoin, ether, dogecoin slip; Cardano gains
August 4th, 2021
In cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin prices today continued to trade below the $40,000 mark as the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization declined over 2% to $38,107, as per CoinDesk. The decline in price puts Bitcoin back in the top end ...
CySEC suspends partially the license of a Cyprus Investment Firm
August 4th, 2021
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (‘CySEC’) announces that the authorisation of the Cyprus Investment Firm Indication Investments Ltd (‘the Company’), number 164/12, is suspended partially, pursuant to section 10(1) of Directive DI87-05 for The Withdrawal and Suspension of ...
VAT rules for European ecommerce
August 4th, 2021
Whether your business is located within the European Union or outside, if you’re shipping to customers in European countries, you will have to pay value-added tax (VAT). On this page we’ll list the current VAT rules for EU cross-border ...
Commission starts legal action against 23 EU countries over copyright rules
August 4th, 2021
France, Spain, Italy and 20 other EU countries may be taken to court for their tardiness in enacting landmark EU copyright rules into national law, the European Commission said on Monday as it asked the group to explain the ...
Euro area unemployment at 7.7%
August 4th, 2021
In June 2021, the euro area seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 7.7%, down from 8.0% in May 2021 and from 8.0% in June 2020. The EU unemployment rate was 7.1% in June 2021, down from 7.3% in May 2021 and ...
