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Breaking: ESMA adopts new measures for the provision of CFDs and binary options to retail investors
June 1st, 2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has formally adopted new measures on the provision of contracts for differences (CFDs) and binary options to retail investors. The measures have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union ...
European Authority agrees to prohibit CFDs and binary options to retail investors
March 28th, 2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has agreed on measures on the provision of contracts for differences (CFDs) and binary options to retail investors in the European Union (EU). The agreed measures include: 1. Binary Options – a ...
Former CEO of Israeli binary options company charged with defrauding investors all over the world
March 26th, 2018
Lee Elbaz, the former CEO of Israeli binary options company Yukom Communications, was indicted by a US federal grand jury on March 22 for allegedly participating in a scheme to “defraud investors in the United States and across the ...
Regulator calls on Google to ban ads for binary options, cryptocurrencies
February 6th, 2018
Following Facebook’s announcement last week that it was banning all advertising for binary options, cryptocurrencies and initial coin offerings, a Canadian regulator has called on Google to do the same. Jason Roy, a senior investigator at the Manitoba Securities ...
Over £87,000 lost to binary options scams every day in the UK
January 29th, 2018
Over £87,000 lost to binary options scams every day in the UK Under 25s are six times more likely to trust an investment offer made via social media, compared to those aged 55+ Online overtakes phone as most common ...
UK Regulator released the names of unauthorised binary options providers
January 15th, 2018
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a list of 94 firms without FCA authorisation that it understands to be offering binary options trading to UK consumers. Since January 3rd 2018, firms involved in binary options trading in the ...
FBI Raids Tel Aviv Offices of Binary Options Platform Provider SpotOption
January 15th, 2018
SpotOption owner Pini Peter: ‘It wasn’t a raid, we cooperated with the FBI and they got everything they wanted. The raid was connected to the September arrest of Israeli binary options executive Lee Elbaz FBI agents, accompanied by Israeli ...
Israel bans binary options industry; Operatives have three months to shut down
October 24th, 2017
The Knesset on Monday unanimously passed a law to ban Israel’s binary options industry, a vast, multibillion dollar scam that has defrauded millions of victims worldwide for a decade. The law, which will go into effect three months from ...
London police raided 20 offices as part of a crackdown on binary options fraud
October 20th, 2017
The City of London Police has issued a press release to inform that conducted a day of action and visited 20 offices to speak with businesses to help build an intelligence picture around Binary Options and other types of ...
Canadian Securities Regulators Announce Ban On Binary Options
September 29th, 2017
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) announce the implementation of Multilateral Instrument 91-102 Prohibition of Binary Options, which makes it illegal to advertise, offer, sell or otherwise trade binary options shorter than 30 days with any individual. “Binary options are ...
