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FCA warning against clone firm
July 4th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British financial regulatory authority, has issued a warning informing the investors that “BPEFX / BPE” (http://bpefx.com/en/index.asp) is a clone firm, thus, is not permitted to provide any financial services or products. Furthermore, FCA points ...
CySec imposes administrative fine of €5.000
July 3rd, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission informs the investors that, at its meeting held on 02.06.2014 , decided to impose the administrative fine of €5.000 in total against “Deloitte Investment Services Ltd” for breaching the Prevention and Suppression of ...
U.S. Ruling Loosens Four-Decade Ban On Oil Exports
June 25th, 2014
The Obama administration cleared the way for the first exports of unrefined American oil in nearly four decades, allowing energy companies to start chipping away at the longtime ban on selling U.S. oil abroad. In separate rulings that haven’t ...
Emerging Markets: What Has Changed
June 20th, 2014
1) Russia continues to liberalize the currency and move to an inflation targeting regime 2) Political risk is rising in Poland 3) South Africa came under renewed rating downgrade pressures 4) The Chinese yuan’s one-way depreciating bet appears to ...
Accountant jailed for £95,000 VAT fraud
June 19th, 2014
An accountant from North Devon has been jailed for a £95,000 VAT fraud. Robert Leonard Carpenter pleaded guilty after he was caught when HMRC became suspicious of his VAT repayments and requested his invoices. He later admitted that much ...
China signs £14bn trade deals with UK amid Premier’s visit
June 18th, 2014
China says it wants to back major UK infrastructure projects and has signed £14bn in trade deals. The news comes on the first full day of a visit by its leader. The BBC understands the projects the state-owned China ...
Microsoft fights U.S. search warrant for customer e-mails held in overseas server
June 11th, 2014
Microsoft, one of the world’s largest e-mail providers, is resisting a government search warrant to compel the firm to turn over customer data held in a server located overseas. In what could be a landmark case, the Redmond, Wash., ...
European stocks hold six-year highs
June 6th, 2014
European stocks are holding six-year highs, while Wall Street is on course for another record, as investors continue to absorb the latest bout of central bank stimulus and attention turns to the health of the US jobs market. The ...
General Motors (GM) accepts ‘troubling’ report on Chevrolet Cobalt recall
June 6th, 2014
General Motors (GM) has accepted the findings of a “brutally tough, deeply troubling” report into recalls of its Chevrolet Cobalt over ignition problems which have been linked to 13 deaths. GM also said it would launch a compensation fund ...
High-Speed Trading Rules Coming From SEC
June 6th, 2014
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Mary Jo White unveiled the regulator’s most sweeping plan yet for reining in high-frequency trading and monitoring dark pools and other secretive trading practices in the world’s largest equity market. Proprietary traders who ...
