Day: August 25, 2022

Aug 25
Ruling to keep Tornado Cash developer in jail for 90 days sparks backlash

A judge ruled that the developer must stay in jail for 90 days while awaiting charges and a court date. 1053 Total views 44 Total shares A judge in the Netherlands ruled that Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev has to stay in jail for 90 more days while waiting for charges. Puzzled by the decision, […]

Aug 25
Aurora Cannabis buying Canadian greenhouse company Bevo Agtech

Aurora Cannabis Inc. ACB, +2.73% ACB, +3.47% said Thursday it agreed to acquire a controlling 50.1% interest in Bevo Agech Inc., the parent of Bevo Farms Ltd., operator of 63 acres of greenhouse facilities in British Columbia with revenue of C$39 million ($30.2 million) in the 12 months ending June 30. The deal includes a […]

Aug 25
Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm – Man Asset Management (Ireland) Limited cloned by fraudulent entities

It has come to the attention of the Central Bank of Ireland (‘Central Bank’) that fraudulent entities have been operating as investment firms / investment business firms in the State in the absence of appropriate authorisations. In multiple instances, the fraudulent entities cloned and impersonated a legitimate Central Bank authorised firm in order to deceive […]

Aug 25
Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm – Northstate

It has come to the attention of the Central Bank of Ireland (‘Central Bank’) that a scam entity by the name Northstate (Commonwealth of Dominica), formerly operating the website www.northstate.io, has been claiming to be an investment firm / investment business firm in the State in the absence of appropriate authorisations. A list of unauthorised […]

Aug 25
Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm – Allconi Bank Administration Limited

It has come to the attention of the Central Bank of Ireland (‘Central Bank’) that Allconi Bank Administration Limited (Ireland) – https://www.allconi-bank.eu.com (no longer in operation) – has been holding itself out as a banker in the State in the absence of an appropriate authorisation. A list of unauthorised firms published to date is available […]

Aug 25
Central Bank of Ireland Issues Warning on Unauthorised Firm –   Fraudulent entity clones authorised firm Great American International Insurance (EU) DAC

It has come to the attention of the Central Bank of Ireland (‘Central Bank’) that a fraudulent entity has been operating as an insurance / reinsurance firm in the State in the absence of appropriate authorisations.  In this instance, the fraudulent entity cloned and impersonated a legitimate Central Bank authorised firm in order to deceive […]

Aug 25
Central Bank reinforces consumer protection expectations of regulated financial firms providing Direct Debit services

The Central Bank of Ireland has engaged with financial services firms to reinforce its consumer protection expectations of all regulated firms that also operate as Direct Debit originators (DDOs). This follows a review of plans submitted from the financial services firms that are amongst the top 20 DDOs in Ireland, which set out the measures they […]

Aug 25
Statement on the publication of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022

The Central Bank of Ireland welcomes today’s publication of the Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022. The Central Bank will continue to work with the Department of Finance throughout subsequent stages as the legislation progresses through the Oireachtas to enactment. Once the Bill has been enacted the Central Bank intends to publicly consult on […]

Aug 25
Fiscal policy and planning for resilience

At last week’s meeting of the ECB’s Governing Council, we decided to increase our main policy rate by 50 basis points.  This continues the normalisation of our monetary policy, a path that we had started to travel on last December. Our aim is to dampen the inflationary pressures that we’re seeing in the euro area […]

Aug 25
Aladdin Healthcare Technologies SE: BaFin imposes administrative fines

On 16 August 2022, BaFin imposed four administrative fines totaling 155,250 euros on Aladdin Healthcare Technologies SE. The sanction related to breaches of section 114 paragraph 1 sentence 2 of the German Securities Trading Act (Wertpapierhandelsgesetz – WpHG) and breaches of section 115 paragraph 1 sentence 1 of the German Securities Trading Act (Wertpapierhandelsgesetz – […]