The Times of Israel is reporting that the Canadian financial regulator overseeing Binary Options has explained to Google how the advertising enables scammers to find victims and has asked it to follow Facebook's lead in barring the ads. On January 30, Facebook announced that it was banning all advertising for binary options, cryptocurrencies and initial…
Read more
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 Blackthorn Wealth Advisory. Blackthorn Wealth Advisory is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
Read more
Through their Joint Unit, the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR) and the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) just informed that they wish to enhance crowdfunders’ protection. They have decided to publish a position on the procedure for default rates calculation, a recommendation on the platforms run-off management and a position on the…
Read more
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined Wedbush Securities Inc. $1.5 million for violating the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Customer Protection and Net Capital Rules, and for related supervisory and books and records failures. The SEC Customer Protection Rule creates requirements to protect customers' funds and securities. To ensure…
Read more
Binary options technology and brokerage company TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) has announced that it has cancelled the planned sale of its Binary Options holdings, after the buyers were unable to secure the necessary regulatory approvals for the deal by a self-imposed deadline of January 31, 2018. As we reported in late November, TechFinancials came to an…
Read more
Fullerton Markets today announced the acceptance of Bitcoin as a new funding method for client deposits. Mario Singh, CEO of Fullerton Markets, commented: We have had loads of requests over the last couple of months to integrate a payment processor which accepts Bitcoin. Interestingly enough, the requests have not dropped despite Bitcoin falling over 50%…
Read more
Bitcoin hit another low this morning, trading at $7,400 per coin according to major exchanges. It seems that when Bitcoin is going down, almost all altcoins are also plunging. After India and China went against Bitcoin, and with the recent news that major banks such as JPMorgan, Lloyds Banking Group and more, are banning Bitcoin…
Read more
In a mad dash to cash, traders were dumping virtually all kinds of assets in favour of good hard cash on Monday, which just saw one of the largest one-day market declines ever. When all the damage was totaled, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by 1,175, or 4.6%. The broader S&P 500 index fell…
Read more
Cyprus financial regulator CySEC has announced that it is withdrawing the CIF financial services license of Best Choice FBC Ltd. Best Choice FBC operates Retail FX broker BCFX Broker at bcfxbroker.com, and also owns a number of other FX properties including the Finish FinFX brand, which it acquired in 2015. CySEC first suspended BCFX's license…
Read more
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) announced that it has today signed the renewal of memorandum of understanding (MoU) to continue the synergized efforts on capital market development and business opportunities between the two exchanges, including products and services development, IT infrastructure cooperation and information exchange. SET President Kesara Manchusree commented: The MoU between SET…
Read more