The Japanese financial trading giant, Monex, released today its quarterly retail investor survey revealing, among other things, that traders in Japan and China are bullish on…
Posts published in June 2014
A tip for ATO? Australian man arrested, charged for holding bitcoins as “tainted property”
In March, a 21-year old Australian man for allegedly hacking the systems of Riot Networks, a US-based gambling company. He allegedly copied files and hijacked…
MXT Global and VantageFX Merge, to Relaunch as One Brand
Australian broker, VantageFX, announced today that it has signed a merger partnership with MXT Global. Under terms of the deal, the two firms will be…
The Chinese central bank, the People’s Bank of China, has signed a separate memoranda of understanding (MOU) with two of its European counterparts over the weekend to…
Yen Loses Support of Fundamentals, Halts Rally
The Japanese yen halted its rally today and actually fell against some of its major peers as economic reports were not favorable to the currency. Today’s drop followed Friday’s big rally,…
NZ Dollar Slumps, Undermined by Poor Fundamental Data
The New Zealand dollar tumbled today, pushed down by very poor macroeconomic indicators. Not everything in today’s report was bad, but the data was negative enough to cause a massive slump…
Online payment fraud in Singapore surpasses 25%
A recent fraud study conducted by global payments firm ACI Worldwide has found that over a quarter of Ecommerce consumers in Singapore have fallen victim…
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is still deliberating whether Bitcoin and virtual currencies should be treated like goods or money. It has now turned to Australia’s Solicitor-General…
Litecoin (LTC) has fallen hard in the past 24 hours, particularly in trade with Bitcoin (BTC). The LTC/BTC pair has established a new 2014 low…
Integral Appoints New Product and Sales Executives
Following , the company has issued a statement announcing the appointments of two new executives – Jon Barker will be moving from a Head of…