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Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive for CIFs
June 12th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) is informing the Cyprus Investment Firms (‘the CIFs’) about Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive and on the Data requested by the EU Parliament as follows: 1. The European Parliament and the Council ...
HM Treasury, the BoE and the Financial Conduct Authority announce Fair and Effective Markets Review
June 12th, 2014
The British government has announced in a press release publishing the Fair and Effective Markets Review the strategic steps to follow in order to raise standards of conduct in the financial system. The review was conducted jointly by the Treasury, the ...
Money Moves, India Tax Evaders, Credit Suisse: Compliance
June 10th, 2014
The U.S. Treasury Department said it sets limits while giving the nation’s intelligence agencies access to reports that banks file on suspicious or large money moves by customers, including information about Americans. The Treasury, saying it was responding to ...
CySec on ESMA’s regulation
June 6th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) draws the attention of the supervised entities, the stakeholders and the investing public to the announcement of the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA). This announcement refers to the publication of the following ...
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 ...
Irish Tax Reform needs further improvements
June 5th, 2014
The European Commission has described Ireland’s system of labor taxation as fragmented and complex, has criticized its range of value-added tax (VAT) rates, and called for improvements to environmental taxes. The comments are made in the Commission’s latest package ...
Illegal Bitcoin IPO Actually Worked Out Pretty Well for Investors
June 4th, 2014
Today the Securities and Exchange Commission shut down a bitcoin investing scam that, as bitcoin investing scams go, is disappointingly un-scammy. A very bitcoiny guy named Erik Voorhees1 started some very bitcoiny companies called SatoshiDICE and FeedZeBirds,2 and he ...
Gunfire in Karachi, Stocks Drop on Report of Politician’s Arrest
June 4th, 2014
Shops closed and public buses stopped operating in Pakistan’s biggest city a day after U.K. police questioned Karachi’s most powerful political figure as part of a money-laundering investigation. About 400 people blocked one of Karachi’s main streets to protest ...
All you need to Know about CySec’s Exams 2014 – Analysis by GP GLOBAL LTD
June 3rd, 2014
All you need to Know about CySec’s Exams 2014 – Analysis by GP GLOBAL LTD When will the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) Exams 2014 take place? According to a recent press release issued by the Commission, the certification exams ...
Iran Eliminates US Dollar from Forex Reserves
June 3rd, 2014
The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has practically rid the country’s foreign currency reserves of US dollar, replacing them with the United Arab Emirates’ dirham, an official said. Hossein Ya’qoubi, CBI governor for international affairs, told the Tasnim News ...
