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The UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) has upheld a ruling that Intercontinental Exchange must sell Trayport, the energy trading technology shop it acquired for $650 million in December 2015.
06 March 2017
A former Federal Reserve employee has been sentenced to 12 months' probation and fined $5000 for installing software on a Fed server to use its computing power to earn bitcoins.
01 February 2017
A New Jersey man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for his role in a $200 million scam that saw crooks fabricate thousands of false identities to obtain credit cards.
27 January 2017
UK startup Funding Circle has received £40m from the state-owned British Business Bank (BBB)on the condition that the funds be used to lend to small businesses, according to a report from news website Business Insider.
05 January 2017
Currency trading firm FxPro has abandoned plans for a London stock market flotation as a result of the UK regulator's plan to crackdown on the growing financial spread betting market, according to Sky News
04 January 2017
The Indonesian Financial Services Authority (OJK)has introduced new regulations for fintech firms running a peer to peer lending business, according to a report in the Jakarta Post.
MasterCard's £700m acquisition of UK-based payment provider VocaLink has hit a snag after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) voiced concerns over the deal.
A former CommBank IT executive who pleaded guilty to taking bribes in a cash for contracts scandal has received a three-and-a-half year jail sentence from Australian courts.
20 December 2016
An ex Goldman Sachs trader who stole software from his employer has disobeyed a judge's order to turn over the stolen intellectual property so that he can profit from it upon his release, a London court heard
16 December 2016
Consumer group Which? has accused the UK's Payment System Regulator (PSR) of letting banks off the hook by not forcing them to reimburse customers who fall victim to online money transfer scams.
Joshua Aaron, the US fugitive suspected of carrying out the largest ever cyber attack on Wall Street, has returned to the US to face trial after hiding out in Russia for more than 18 months.
15 December 2016
Australia's securities watchdog has released a number of waivers that will enable eligible fintechs to test services without the need to hold an Australian Financial Service licence or to make individual applications to the regulator.
Blockchain consortium R3 has contracted global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright to determine whether smart contracts have contractual effect and their enforceability.
21 November 2016
London law firm Addleshaw Goddard is the latest legal group to tap the expanding fintech scene with the launch of a programme valued at £500,000 in free legal advice and mentoring services to 16 top startups.
08 November 2016
Top law firm Slaughter and May is looking to build relationships within the UK fintech scene by giving 10 startups free legal services worth tens of thousands of pounds.
31 October 2016
Wells Fargo has failed to convince a judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by an Ecuadorian bank in connection with a $12 million theft made over the Swift network.
19 October 2016
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is being sued by a shareholder in Jumio over alleged “misrepresentations and ineptitude” related to the digital ID verification outfit's bankruptcy filing earlier this year.
12 October 2016
London police have arrested a man in Romania in connection with a malware attack on ATMs which resulted in the theft of more than £1.5 million.
06 October 2016
A former senior IT executive at CommBank who has pleaded guilty to bribery in Australia is now facing similar charges in the US, according to press reports.
30 September 2016
A US judge has ruled that Bitcoin is a type of money, rejecting the efforts of a defendant to get charges related to his involvement with a virtual currency exchange dismissed.
20 September 2016
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