The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has once again rejected an effort by investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss to list a bitcoin ETF. The move comes more than a year after the SEC turned down a rule change request from the Bats BZX Exchange that would have paved the way for the
“U.S. President Donald Trump called it a “very big day for free and fair trade” but his meeting with the EU has failed to provide concrete details on how both sides will fix their differences over trade, analysts said. Trump received Jean-Claude Juncker, the chief of the EU’s executive arm, the European
SEC Cybersecurity is a term to encompass the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) guidance role in the overall spectrum of cyber threats against public companies. The SEC is a federal agency charged with the task of ensuring the protection of investors. According to the official webpage, “The mission of the U.S.
The United States on Monday, July 16, 2018, launched five separate trade disputes at the World Trade Organization (WTO) challenging trade partners’ retaliatory tariffs. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said the U.S. is filing cases against China, the European Union, Canada, Mexico, and Turkey after each imposed new tariffs on U.S. exports in response
“A vice governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has again issued strong statements against initial coin offerings (ICOs), singling out those that have moved overseas, but are still marketing to investors in China. Speaking at an internal meeting of the Internet Finance Rectification Working Group on Monday, Pan Gongsheng
On July 5, 2018, the European Parliament issued a nonbinding resolution for European Commission to suspend the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield unless U.S. authorities can fully comply with the framework by September 1, 2018. The resolution states that the data transfer mechanism does not provide the adequate level of protection for personal
A proposed FTC settlement with California-based employee training company ReadyTech Corporation reminds businesses that if make claims about EU-U.S. Privacy Shield participation, there is an obligation to live up to those promises. The case and settlement confirms the FTC’s commitment to the framework. Privacy Shield gives companies a way to transfer personal data from