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Albanian Parliament Signs New Crypto Law: A Bid to Become Blockchain Hub?

  • The law covers licensing, preventing abusive practices in the market, and supervising the activities of crypto platforms.
Friday, 22/05/2020 | 08:38 GMT by Rachel McIntosh
Regulation

Great Migration of Traders: Regulations Changed the Whole Industry in 2019

  • The retail trading industry changed in 2019. Finance Magnates looks at what brought the biggest impact to the whole FX/CFD scene
Friday, 27/03/2020 | 18:47 GMT by Sylwester Majewski
Interviews

Forex’s 'Apple & Blackberry Effect': Gold-i CEO on FX’s Evolution

  • Tom Higgins on regulatory changes, technological innovation, and strategic scaling in the forex industry.
Tuesday, 18/02/2020 | 13:00 GMT by Rachel McIntosh
News

Turkish Regulator Ramps Up Efforts to Create Crypto Legislation

  • The Capital Markets Board is honing in on crypto following what seems to be an explosion of interest.
Monday, 06/01/2020 | 07:55 GMT by Rachel McIntosh
News

New Bill in House of Congress Seeks to Define & Regulate Crypto

  • A discussion draft of the bill names the United States CFTC, SEC, and FinCEN as regulators.
Friday, 20/12/2019 | 08:27 GMT by Rachel McIntosh
Thought Leaders

New Leverage Regulations: Protection or Discrimination?

  • Regulatory updates on forex and CFDs leverage added some bitterness to retail traders’ mojitos this summer.
Wednesday, 09/10/2019 | 10:56 GMT by Sponsored
Regulation

FX Leverage Cut to 20:1 in Singapore

  • Retail traders in the small nation-state previously had access to 50:1 leverage
Tuesday, 08/10/2019 | 09:14 GMT by David Kimberley
Regulation

CySEC Scraps Higher Leverage, Adopts ESMA Rules

  • The Cypriot regulator weighed up offering three tiers of leverage to retail clients in May
Friday, 27/09/2019 | 13:58 GMT by David Kimberley
Technology

Horizon Upgrades Stress Test Reporting Tools

  • The firm says the updates will enable firms to more easily meet MiFID II requirements
Thursday, 29/08/2019 | 09:29 GMT by David Kimberley
Regulation

AFCA Welcomes ASIC Product Intervention Powers

  • The dispute resolution agency says the powers will lead to better protection for consumers
Tuesday, 27/08/2019 | 08:43 GMT by David Kimberley
Brokers

134 Brokers Have Registered in Vanuatu Since 2018

  • Cheap set-up costs and lax regulations make the Pacific islands an appealing option for some firms
Monday, 26/08/2019 | 12:46 GMT by David Kimberley
Regulation

Brokers Breaking Rules With Offshore Activity

  • Showing clients that they can go offshore for higher leverage is against ESMA regulation
Thursday, 22/08/2019 | 15:09 GMT by David Kimberley
Brokers

Brokers Are Still Sending Clients Offshore

  • We spoke to ten brokers asking for high leverage. Seven were happy to send us to non-EU entities.
Tuesday, 20/08/2019 | 15:06 GMT by David Kimberley
News

Zenus Bank Gets US Regulatory Approval

  • Founded by Mushegh Tovmasyan, the challenger bank allows anyone to open a US bank account
Monday, 12/08/2019 | 14:58 GMT by David Kimberley
Analysis

ESMA One Year In: Offshore, Equities and B2B

  • A year after ESMA put game-changing regulations in place, we look at how the retail trading industry has changed
Thursday, 08/08/2019 | 14:31 GMT by David Kimberley
Regulation

RoboMarkets Receives Labuan License

  • With a less restrictive regulator, the Malaysian island is becoming a hub for FX brokers in Asia
Thursday, 08/08/2019 | 09:18 GMT by David Kimberley
Thought Leaders

Brokers Making Moves to Cut Costs in the Face of Regulatory Shift

  • Though several years in the making, the compliance measures greatly rewrote the rules and caused wholesale changes.
Thursday, 01/08/2019 | 08:20 GMT by Sponsored
Payments

Simplex Gets EMI License in Lithuania

  • The payments firm will now be able to offer a broader ranger of services to clients
Friday, 26/07/2019 | 11:32 GMT by David Kimberley
News

Why Open Banking Will Take the Financial World by Storm

  • More than a hundred firms are now vying to provide innovative services to bank's retail and business customers
Thursday, 25/07/2019 | 12:51 GMT by David Kimberley
Regulation

AvaTrade Israel Fined $141,000 by Regulator

  • The broker will also have a conditional fine of 500,000 shekels hanging over it for the next two years
Wednesday, 24/07/2019 | 10:09 GMT by David Kimberley
Regulation

For Libra, Regulators Can Learn From the Forex Industry

  • ESMA regulations forced brokers to change their business models. Regulators could make Facebook do the same.
Tuesday, 23/07/2019 | 09:48 GMT by David Kimberley
Regulation

ESMA to Consult on Market Data Fees

  • The regulator said that MiFID II has failed to have the desired effect when it comes to pricing
Friday, 12/07/2019 | 15:37 GMT by David Kimberley
Regulation

BNP Fined $100k for Options Compliance Failings

  • The broker-dealer put two systems in place that both failed to properly report transactions to the FNTRF
Friday, 12/07/2019 | 10:22 GMT by David Kimberley
Regulation

Brokers Need to Set Ad Standards, Says Russian Official

  • Anti-trust official Tatyana Nikitina said that brokers' setting standards will be better than increasing fines
Thursday, 11/07/2019 | 15:42 GMT by David Kimberley
Regulation

FCA Pursuing 3 Binary Options Firms

  • The British regulator said it received more complaints regarding unauthorised firms last year than it ever has before
Wednesday, 10/07/2019 | 14:20 GMT by David Kimberley
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