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 ...

IG Group, a major global forex broker based in the UK, has reported a “record revenue” for the first quarter of its 2018 financial year that ended on August 31, 2017. According to the data, the Q1 FY2018 stood ...

Just days after the first reports that the Chinese government is planning to shut down the domestic cryptocurrency exchanges, which also happen to be some of the largest in the world, the authorities have issued a tight schedule ...

The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has warned investors of the risks of cryptocurrencies and the initial coin offerings (ICOs) in particular. In its statement the regulator explains that those ICOs are usually used for funding of a ...