Another day, another privacy defalcation by Facebook, so what else is new? Yes, once again Facebook is facing allegations that its staff has crossed another privacy line in the sand. San Francisco’s social media giant just cannot get out of its own way, when it comes to its two billion plus customers across the globe.…
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Fintech software provider of financial solutions TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) has today released its unaudited interim results for H1 2019. LeapRate reminds that the company has recently agreed to extend the completion date of the conditional Share Purchase Agreement to sell its entire holdings in MarketFinancials Limited (MF) to 31 August 2019. TechFinancials has also signed a…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for August 15, 2019. See details below: FOREX The Euro is on the back-foot against other major currencies, noticeably the US Dollar, trading around the $1.11 level on Thursday morning. The perfect storm of risk constraining events (lingering trade tensions, weak Chinese…
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The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has recently added a new name to its list of unregulated firms. The latest addition is the company JJ Lloyd. According to the regulator, the firm may be involved in a scam and is not registered on the New Zealand Financial Service Providers Register. The Hong Kong and Austrian regulators…
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ASIC announced that it has banned a Sydney-based financial adviser, Tarandeep Aujla, because he failed to act in his clients’ best interests. Aujla was an authorised representative of Australian financial services (AFS) licensees Infocus Securities Australia and Chaucer Group. ASIC has found that Aujla did not obtain adequate information from clients about their personal circumstances…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), UK’s primary regulatory watchdog, has finally recognized Ripple’s XRP token in a similar fashion as it has for Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH). The latter two crypto coin systems had already been classified as being an exchange or utility token, as opposed to being deemed a security and then subject…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for August 14, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Hi Everyone, Since landing in California last week, it's become very clear to me how quickly the retail landscape…
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It has been no secret that the development arm of the Peoples Bank of China (PBoC) has been working diligently in the background over the past five years over some form of digital currency that would be nationalized and controlled by the central bank. The status of the project has always been in question, but,…
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R3, the enterprise blockchain software firm, just announced plans to open its second European office in Dublin in 2020. The office will serve as another of R3’s tech hubs and will be primarily staffed by engineering specialists who will work closely with the existing Engineering team in London. The company has recently doubled the size…
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The Cyprus regulator CySEC announced that it has reached a settlement with the company Banc De Binary Ltd. for violations of The Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law of 2007. The settlement reached with Banc De Binary Ltd. is for the amount of €300.000 and has already been paid by the company. CySEC…
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