UK to regulate cloud service providers Microsoft, Google and others to protect financial stability

The week brought developments across retail trading, broker earnings, fintech and digital assets, with online reputation, profitability and changing trading behaviour among the recurring themes. Broker operations also saw several changes, from iFOREX revising its earnings outlook to AvaTrade closing its Polish branch. At the same time, copy trading continued to gain traction among retail…

New data has shown the preliminary clearance rate for the combined capitals lifted to its highest in 11 weeks last week, with Melbourne leading the results. According to Cotality’s Market Indicator Summary for the week ending 9 August, preliminary clearance rates rose to 55.1 per cent last week, after a low of 47.4 per cent…

Robin Jones, Defense Metals VP Projects, commented: “We’re exceptionally pleased that all eleven drill holes reported in today’s news release intersected significant widths of high to moderate grade Rare Earth Element mineralization within the pit confines defined by the 2025 Preliminary Feasibility Study and are expected to contribute positively to a resource classification uplift.” Highlights…

Just days after the Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation became fully applicable on July 1, the European Parliament called on the European Commission to identify gaps in the current crypto rulebook and assess whether further regulation is needed. For brokers and institutional firms, it signals that areas currently outside MiCA are likely to receive greater regulatory…

New Year in the Maldives Image 1 of 4 (Image credit: Intercontinental Maldives Maanunagau) (Image credit: Intercontinental Maldives Maanunagau) (Image credit: Intercontinental Maldives Maanunagau) (Image credit: Intercontinental Maldives Maanunagau) Join Pixie Lott in the Maldives this Christmas. The British pop star will be performing on New Year’s Eve at the InterContinental Maldives Maamunagau as part…

Rightmove is hosting a webinar on 23 July focused on strategies to reduce property transaction fall-throughs, featuring television presenter Phil Spencer and John Reynolds, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of transaction technology platform Coadjute. The session will examine causes of delays and failed transactions in the home-moving process, alongside discussions on how improved collaboration and…