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Plus500: AGM Trading Update and Statement
May 27th, 2015
Plus500, a leading online service provider for retail customers to trade CFDs internationally, today announces the following trading update, in advance of its AGM being held later today. Trading update Group Summary · Year to date revenues of $107.9m are ...
Binary options – potential changes in regulation
May 26th, 2015
Binary options allow consumers to speculate on the short term movement in price of financial instruments such as shares. Find out how the FCA may start regulating them. The FCA does not currently regulate binary options You do not ...
ASIC has suspended the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of FX provider AGM Markets Pty Ltd (AGM)
April 2nd, 2015
Following an investigation, ASIC has suspended the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of FX provider AGM Markets Pty Ltd (AGM). The move is part of ASIC’s ongoing crackdown on the margin FX industry and work around retail investment in ...
Bitcoin dealer sentenced to four years in US prison
January 21st, 2015
Robert Faiella, 55, and an accomplice were charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering and running an unlicensed money transmitting business. A New York court Tuesday (Jan 20) handed a four-year prison sentence to a Bitcoin exchange operator who ...
ASIC surveillance prompts FX provider to enhance compliance procedures
December 8th, 2014
Following an ASIC surveillance, Calibre Investments Pty Ltd will implement changes to the way it offers FX services to retail clients. The move is part of ASIC’s crackdown on the FX industry which has resulted in a number of ...
Getty Images taking Microsoft to court
September 5th, 2014
Microsoft has launched a new online product that Getty Images says allows website publishers to embed digital photographs on their sites and is a “massive infringement” of copyrighted images, the photo agency claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal ...
Bitcoin Foundation’s Shrem Will Plead Guilty
September 1st, 2014
Charlie Shrem, the former Bitcoin Foundation Inc. vice chairman, will plead guilty to unlicensed money transmission under an agreement with federal prosecutors, his lawyer said. Shrem was accused in an indictment of trying to launder more than $1 million ...
China against Windows 8 Amid U.S. Spat
June 5th, 2014
China’s government took another step against Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) by telling officials in one province not to use Windows 8 software, marking an escalation in the dispute with the U.S. over spying and hacking allegations. Jiangsu province, south of ...
China bans Windows 8 from government computers
May 21st, 2014
Government ties the decision to security concerns, though it’s unclear what will replace the still-widely-used Windows XP. The Chinese government has officially banned Windows 8 from use on all government computers, reports out of the country claim. The Xinhua ...
Credit Suisse Said Close to Guilty Plea, $2.5 Billion Accord With U.S.
May 16th, 2014
Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) is close to reaching an agreement to plead guilty and pay about $2.5 billion to the U.S. Justice Department and regulators to resolve investigations into whether it helped Americans evade taxes, three people familiar ...
