Volante Technologies Inc. expands executives team
July 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters and FINBOURNE to develop cloud-based portfolio hosting for investment managers

Information giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) has announced a partnership agreement with London-headquartered FINBOURNE Technology to use FINBOURNE’s cloud-based advanced investment management platform, LUSID®, for Thomson Reuters client and transaction data. LUSID is an event-based ledger with published APIs that allow in-house and third-party solutions to interface with portfolios, holdings or transactions. The partnership is designed…

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fca warning
July 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Talbot Review Centre firm

UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company Talbot Review Centre. Talbot Review Centre is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…

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PepsiCo Inc. to join the NASDAQ-100 Index
July 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

PepsiCo Inc. to join the NASDAQ-100 Index

Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) has just announced that PepsiCo, Inc. (Nasdaq:PEP), will become a component of the NASDAQ-100 Index® (Nasdaq:NDX) and the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index (Nasdaq:NDXE) prior to market open on Monday, July 23, 2018. PepsiCo, Inc. will replace DISH Network Corporation (Nasdaq:DISH) in the indexes. PepsiCo, Inc. is headquartered in Purchase, New York, and has…

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Block.one closes investment round led by Peter Thiel and Bitmain
July 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Block.one closes investment round led by Peter Thiel and Bitmain

Block.one, publisher of the EOSIO blockchain protocol, a high performance blockchain platform for decentralized applications, has just announced that venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel has invested in the company, along with other notable investors, Bitmain, Louis Bacon, and Alan Howard. This round follows an earlier round led by Christian Angermayer, Lansdowne Investment Company Ltd,…

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clone firm FCA warning
July 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against My-PersonalLoan clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm My-PersonalLoan. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics to scam…

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July 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FSB sets out framework to monitor crypto-asset markets

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) informed that it has published a report delivered to the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors on the work of the FSB and standard-setting bodies on crypto-assets. For its part, the FSB has developed a framework, in collaboration with Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), to monitor the…

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fca warning
July 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Fieldbase Investments Limited firm

UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company Fieldbase Investments Limited. Fieldbase Investments Limited is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…

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ICO fraud
July 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SEC files charges in busted microcap fraud schemes

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has informed that it has charged a stock promoter and four others involved in an alleged series of microcap fraud schemes that were foiled by FBI undercover work and an SEC trading suspension. According to the SEC’s complaint filed in federal court in southern California on July 6, stock…

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