If you are looking for the story: "Rob Coole talks about the IPC Connexus platform" click here The mid 2017 sale of once-leading Binary Options broker anyoption to Invest.com has led to a pair of lawsuits being filed in both Cyprus and Israel, with competing claims of fraud being bandied about by both anyoption's…
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Binary options turned blockchain technology company TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) has announced that it will receive in early December an $867,000 dividend payout from its 51% owned joined venture company DragonFinancials. DragonFinancials operates binary options broker websites in China and the Far East, one of the few regions where binary options are still being offered to…
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For the second time since first introducing a three-month ban on offering binary options trading to retail clients in the EU in July 2018, European financial regulator ESMA has extended the ban for a further three months. The current ban is set to lapse on January 1, 2019. The three month extension takes the ban…
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Canadian securities regulator the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has just announced that it has become aware of a suspicious entity named Binary Banc. Binary Banc claims to provide an online trading platform for binary options. The regulator has recently became aware of Binary Banc and that it had solicited a British Columbia (BC) resident…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that Judge John Robert Blakey of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois entered a Consent Order for Permanent Injunction (Consent Order), which resolves charges against Defendant Thomas C. Lindstrom, of Winnetka, Illinois, for engaging in fraud in connection with his trading of…
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) has announced that it has filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, charging Yehuda L. Belsky of Brooklyn, New York, and his firm Y Trading, LLC (Y Trading) with solicitation fraud in connection with binary options trading.…
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The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has published a list of new websites offering binary options trading, for which no authorized investment services provider could be clearly identified. Here is the list of new websites recently identified: www.binarycent.com www.patrimoinegestion-management.com www.pocketoption.com A list of all unauthorized websites to offer trading of binary options is available in…
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Binary options platform and broker turned Blockchain company TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) has announced its financial results for the first half of 2018, indicating (not too surprisingly) that Revenues were down by 46% from 1H-2017, to $3.78 million. TechFinancials earlier this year shut down its OptionFair binary options brokerage brand, gave up its CySEC license, and shuttered…
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Just halfway through its initial three month ban on offering binary options trading products in the EU, pan European financial regulator ESMA has announced that it will be extending the ban for a further three months. The initial temporary ban was finalized in March and came into effect on July 2, running through to October…
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Canada's Ombudsman for banking services and investments (OBSI) has once again reminded the public that binary options are highly risky and can leave investors with no protection. However, retail traders are still finding ways to deposit to Binary Options brokers after credit card ban. Key learnings: The sale of short-term binary options has been banned…
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