New Zealand has a rather untypical financial industry structure: the country doesn't have its own banks, but it relies entirely on Australia's big four banks. As reported by Financial Review, the fact that the two countries share the same banks and the same "client" for exporting their commodities (China), if for some reason both economies…
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Canada’s Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has recognized that Bitcoin is a legitimate market, trading in millions of dollars per day in a host of exchanges. For that very reason, it has reversed a prior decision and given a green light for a Bitcoin Fund IPO, which will offer participations to retail investors. With this simple…
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Global capital markets have come a long way in the past decade, another sign of the interconnectedness of all global markets in our modern commercial setting. Investors today think nothing of investing in overseas markets, when just ten years back, one would have to jump through hoops in order to find a broker with an…
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The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) has just warned the public of the activities of an entity named Alysa Group and/or Alysa Finance Holding SA. Alysa Group and/or Alysa Finance Holding SA, Société de Gestion de Patrimoine Familial SPF is operating via the website www.alysa-group.com and claims to be supervised by the CSSF.…
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced on Tuesday that it has made the following new retail regulations: Retail investors will now have access to 20:1 leverage (previous leverage was 50:1). As stated in the announcement, exemption from the new measures are only specified holders of a licence who maintain a base capital of…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of two unregulated firms yesterday. The names of the latest additions to the regulator’s warning list are GL-FX and FTCA. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics to scam people in the UK: GL-FX/ GL FX Address: 10…
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Yoni Assia, the CEO and co-founder of eToro, a social trading and multi asset brokerage company, made a recent appearance on Charlie Shrem’s podcast, Untold Stories. During his interview, he expressed two general concerns. The first had to do with the world’s need for a publicly accessible digital currency, which would be fully transparent and…
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There’s gold in them thar hills, or so say-ith the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and most other major taxing jurisdictions across the globe. After years of lenient auditing practices with regard to crypto tax collection, officials have suddenly realized that there could be enormous payoffs, ripe for the picking, for only investing a few million…
Read moreWhile the SEC is pondering whether to grant the existence of a Bitcoin ETF, it is not wasting time in charging the cryptocurrency industry, where appropriate. The financial regulator has fined the blockchain company Block.one for unregistered ICO. The fine was $24 million. According to the SEC, the ICO raised billions of dollars in digital…
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The Cyprus regulator CySEC has made a new announcement today regarding the withdrawal of the AIFLNP authorisation of two companies. The latest additions to CySEC's list are Quantelion Fund Ltd and MESSINA FUND VCIC LTD. Quantelion Fund Ltd’s authorization is with number LPAIF88/2014 and MESSINA FUND VCIC LTD's authorization is with number LPAIF66/2014. According to…
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