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 Clarksdale Corporate Partners. Clarksdale Corporate Partners is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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The following article was written by Reem Aboul Hosn, Research and Market Analyst Officer at Credit Financier Invest (CFI) Ltd. Despite a slight recovery in oil prices at the beginning of 2019, low oil prices could have a negative effect on Canadian economy this quarter. In October 2018 too many uncertainties pressured oil prices from…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Leleux Associated Brokers. 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…
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Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has just released its trading volumes report for the month of December. The total trading volume of FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) continues its monthly drop, this time down 6.3% from November. But its total trading volume in 2018 was 10% up YoY. The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures…
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On Wednesday there was a significant price move affecting the Japanese yen (JPY) during the early hours of the Asia trading day. CLS Group has confirmed those spot volume movement observations, based on its extensive data set. This was particularly prevalent across US dollar (USD) Japanese yen and Australian dollar (AUD) Japanese yen currency pairs.…
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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 Safemarkets. Safemarkets is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated activities which require authorisation:…
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Occasionally small headlines that seem insignificant actually reveal much larger insights into what might be transpiring behind the scenes. Such may be the case after the government of a small country like Abkhazia pulled the plug on fifteen mining operations within their borders. This event, while apparently isolated, is indicative of growing pains within the…
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After announcing a successful year for its Cash market, Deutsche Börse has released December volumes for its Eurex stock exchange. It's been a successful month for Eurex, as the number of traded contracts were up 23%, reaching 174.6 million traded contracts compared to 142.4 million in 2017. European equity index derivatives increased by 38% from 69.8…
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Ten years ago on January 3, an anonymous figure dubbed Satoshi Nakamoto “mined”, or verified, the first block of transactions on the Bitcoin network. In the decade that followed, Bitcoin would face a litany of organized attacks, the price of the currency would collapse 4 times by upwards of 70%, and it would be subjected…
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Another day, another report of a hacking loss in the crypto world. Hacking compromises of crypto exchanges have become all too common, even in 2018 after the network has had some time to work through necessary security enhancements. A new report from Cyphertrace claims that “some $927 million had been stolen from cryptocurrency exchanges in…
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