SMNWEEKLY Forex & Binary options news

Kazakhstan, a major Central Asian economy, announced its plans to launch its own cryptocurrency, backed by fiat currency. According to an official announcement, the government-supported Astana International Finance Center (AIFC) has signed a deal with the Malta-regulated financial ...

It appears that the love-hate relationship between Russia and the cryptocurrencies is getting into a new stage. According to a report of the Russian daily Argumenty i Fakty (AiF) quoting the country’s communications minister Nikolay Nikiforov, Russia will ...

Forexbrokerz.com is ranking among the 1000 best sites in the finance and investing category, shows recent data of the digital market intelligence company SimilarWeb. The main focus of the site, established in 2008, is on forex, CFD and ...

easyMarkets, a Cyprus and Australia-regulated forex broker announced it is expanding its trading portfolio with the addition of CFDs on the most popular digital currency – Bitcoin. Trading in the new instruments is available 24/7, with a leverage ...

The police in the western Finnish region Ostrobothnia have arrested a promoter of the MLM digital currency scam OneCoin, reports the Finnish public media Yle. According to the police commissioner Antti Perälä, there are two suspects in an ...

A Greek court approved the extradition of Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik to the US where he is wanted in connection with a $4 billion bitcoin fraud, reports AP. His lawyers have already appealed the court ruling. “We have ...

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission (FSC) has forbidden initial coin offerings (ICOs) and is considering to prohibit margin trading on digital currencies. According to the report of CoinDesk, FSC will prohibit all forms of the blockchain funding method ...

The Singapore-based cryptocurrency fintech company Quoine announced it has become the first crypto fintech to obtain an official license from the Japan Financial Services Agency (JFSA). Quoine is a Singaporean fintech with offices in Japan, Singapore and Vietnam. ...

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) – the body unifying all regional financial markets and services regulators in the country – has announced an official ban on binary options. The implementation of Multilateral Instrument 91-102 Prohibition of Binary Options ...

Bulgaria’s Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) has denied an investment intermediary license to the local branch of the forex and CFD broker Plus500 – Plus500 BG. The FSC does not give reasons for its decision, but from the publication ...