The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of several unregulated firms. The names of the latest additions to the regulator’s warning list are JP Morgan Asset Management and Switch Finance. According to the regulator, the fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics to scam people…
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Bitcoin giveth and taketh away, like no other asset class before it, but analysts keep searching for Bitcoin’s “twin”, assuming that one might exist from another era that would provide an insight into the future price behavior of the world’s favorite digital asset. This search is not some kind of new age, outside of the…
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INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: INTL) has announced earlier this week that the Broker-Dealer Division of its wholly owned subsidiary, INTL FCStone Financial Inc., released a new interactive Canadian equity trading platform called Maple Live. The company's Canadian subsidiary, INTL FCStone Financial (Canada) Inc. has recently become a member in the category of futures commission merchant…
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Countries are finding different ways to fight illegal cryptocurrency mining activities. One of the more interesting approaches comes from Iran, which has started offering bounties to people who expose illegal crypto mining operations. The announcement came after new regulations were set in motion for the cryptocurrency industry. The news comes from local agency IRIB News.…
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Alphabet Inc's Google just announced that it will start offering personal checking accounts in 2020 via its Google Pay application, a project supported by Citigroup and a credit union at Stanford University. The information comes from Reuters. The project is named Cache and is a direct rival to Apple and Facebook, two giants who are…
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The freelancing eco-system has come of age over the past decade. Originally, the users of these global contractor job sites were considered “misfits” or outcasts from the corporate mainstream, but the “digital nomad rocketship” has taken flight. In the U.S. alone, recent studies peg 36% of the U.S. workforce, some 57 million people, as freelancers,…
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Canadian regulator BCSC has recently issued a warning against the company Edu-Pension and its website http://www.edu-pension.com. According to the watch dog, the company claims to be based in Toronto, Ontario, and offers forex and cryptocurrency trading. BCSC, however, recently became aware that Edu-Pension accepted funds from a British Columbia (BC) resident. The company is not…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for November 14, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Hi Everyone, The economic landscape has undergone a radical swing from an expected recession to a somewhat stable footing…
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We live in a digital age, where the ability to send instant messages resides in our hands via our various smart phones and smart devices. The mechanism rests in the coding of a variety of “apps” on the market. This apps market is highly competitive. You need only conduct a simple Internet search to arrive…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for November 14, 2019. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX The euro is up by over 0.15% against the US dollar following the publication of Germany’s Q3 GDP data, which showed quarter-on-quarter growth of 0.1%. This is good…
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