Posts published in January 2017

Global technology platform and digital payments provider PayPal today released its fourth quarter and full year results for the period ended 31 December, 2016. The…

BUX, an Australian mobile money wallet provider, has partnered with the blockchain-based global settlement platform . BUX currently provides digital payment services for the unbanked, allowing users to…

Probes into whether banks have manipulated Libor have led to over $9 billion in global settlements to date, with cases against financial institutions and various…

Paxful, a peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace, has launched a new widget, allowing anyone to buy bitcoin worldwide with over 300 ways to pay. The Virtual Bitcoin…

Jonathan L. Marcus, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission General Counsel who defended the CFTC’s approach to the consideration of costs and benefits under the…

The euro dropped against other major currencies (with the exception of the Japanese yen) today as the US dollar staged a recovery. Professor Ted Malloch (a potential candidate for the post of the US Ambassador to the European Union)…

Citigroup’s investment advisement subsidiary, Citigroup Global Markets, today agreed to dole out $18.3 million to end the U.S. regulator’s allegations that it overbilled about 60,000…

Two months after CySEC issued a circular informing regulated CIF firms of the reduction of leverage to 50x and to halt offering bonuses, online forex…

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an order simultaneously filing and settling charges against brokerage group E*TRADE Securities LLC, and subsidiary E*TRADE…

We all knew this is inevitable, but had no idea how high profile the victim could be. Bloomberg and the Financial Times are reporting that…