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EU weighs screening member states over tax avoidance
October 15th, 2018
The European Union is considering screening its own member states to assess whether they should be included in the bloc’s blacklist of tax havens, a senior EU official said on Wednesday. In December 2017 the EU drew up a ...
European stocks are set to open lower Monday morning
October 15th, 2018
European stocks are set to open lower Monday morning, as concerns over Brexit talks, a potential slowdown in the Chinese economy and higher U.S. borrowing costs limited investor appetite. The FTSE 100 is seen little changed from the previous ...
Beware of fraudulent initial coin offering
October 12th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has obtained an emergency court order halting a planned initial coin offering (ICO), which backers falsely claimed was approved by the SEC. The order also halts ongoing pre-ICO sales by ...
ESMA highlights progress on MiFID II implementation
October 12th, 2018
Steven Maijoor, Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), has delivered the following statement to the Economic & Monetary Affair Committee (ECON) at the European Parliament as part of the annual hearing of the chairs of the ...
U.S. Federal Court enters $14 Million Judgment against Options Trader
October 12th, 2018
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Judge John Robert Blakey of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a Consent Order for Permanent Injunction (Consent Order), which resolves charges against Defendant Thomas ...
British pound is facing continued pressure on Friday morning
October 12th, 2018
The British pound is facing continued pressure on Friday morning after Liam Fox, Michael Gove and Dominic Raab spoke out against the UK PM at a senior ministers Brexit meeting in Downing Street last night. The Pound to Euro ...
Global stocks extended declines Tuesday
October 10th, 2018
Global stocks extended declines Tuesday, taking European markets past a six month and pulling U.S. equity futures into the red, following a downbeat assessment of world economic growth from the International Monetary Fund and a renewed rise in U.S. ...
House prices in the euro area rose; These are the countries with the highest increases
October 9th, 2018
House prices, as measured by the House Price Index, rose by 4.3% in both the euro area and the EU in the second quarter of 2018 compared with the same quarter of the previous year. These figures come from ...
Emergency action filed against a Swiss-based company for microcap fraud scheme
October 9th, 2018
The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed an emergency action and obtained an asset freeze against two individuals and their companies in a scheme that generated more than $165 million of illegal sales of stock in at least 50 ...
U.S. District Court finds that virtual currencies are commodities
October 9th, 2018
On September 26, 2018, Senior Judge Rya W. Zobel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, entered an order holding that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has the power to prosecute fraud involving virtual currency ...
