Tag: Germany

RoboMarkets
June 09, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

RoboMarkets announces new German brand for professional investors

Under ESMA regulation, a trader qualifies as a professional if they have a portfolio that exceeds €500,000 in cash deposits and investment instruments. Professional traders must have carried out 10 transaction of significant size per quarter over the last year and should have been working in the financial sector for at least a year. Professional…

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New German government calls for crypto regulation
November 29, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

New German government calls for crypto regulation

The document states: We are making European financial market supervisory law fit for digitization and for complex group structures in order to ensure holistic and risk-adequate supervision of new business models. We need joint European supervision for the crypto sector. We oblige crypto asset service providers to consistently identify the beneficial owners. The coalition agreement…

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The German economy is coming back from the brink
November 28, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

The German economy is coming back from the brink

The following market analysis of Gross Domestic Product Annualized (Q3) was prepared by Ramy Abouzaid, Head of Market Research at ATFX. Germany's Q3 GDP came in better than expected after showing limited growth in the euro zone's largest economy by 0.1% QoQ and 0.5% YoY, showing a consolidation in the economy after GDP growth slowed…

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The German economy is coming back from the brink
March 21, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Germany to create state fund for preventing unwanted foreign takeovers

Germany intends to pass laws for the creation of a government-owned fund that would protect vital German companies from being acquired by foreign companies (especially Chinese ones), by end of 2019, according to Reuters. This is a major departure from the government’s “laid-back” approach towards business. Peter Altmaier, the Economy Minister first suggested the creation…

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Whale concentrations in BTC and Tether raising manipulation concerns
February 07, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Stealing electricity with crypto mining

Crimes related to cryptocurrency mining never stop. Cryptocurrency mining has allowed plenty of criminals to "showcase" their "power" all over the world. The latest arrest, however, comes from Germany. In the city of Klingenthal, Saxony, a group of suspects was arrested by the police, as reported by Cointelegraph auf Deutsch. The suspects have reportedly operated a cryptocurrency…

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