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The CBOE exchange listing has again raised the discussion that cryptocurrencies should be regulated

Dentons' international expansion shows no signs of stopping with the firm launching a new office in Melbourne. The new location will be headed up by Nick Stretch who joins the firm with a team of three other partners.

As early as March 2014 the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) alerted potential investors to the risks associated with investment in virtual currencies or contracts for difference (CFD) linked to them. Its recently-issued circular C244 dated October 13 2017 sets out the conditions Cyprus investment firms must satisfy in the event they provide investment services in respect of such products to safeguard investors' interests.

Latest guidance seeks to reconcile differences in UK and US opinion letter practices in cross-border financial transactions

The PCC is stepping up enforcement scrutiny

The Mifid II train will arrive at Compliance station on January 3

In this exclusive interview, the regulator's former acting head talks about his successor, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Volcker and his future

It hasn't been a great year for the Americas. It's a year that around 48% of voting US citizens would like to see stricken from the record, where corruption scandals continue to engulf Brazil and Venezuela has fallen further into despair. Mexico continues to wait tensely to see what will happen to Nafta and whether a somewhat controversial 3,200km wall will ever materialise along its northernmost border. But even with all the doom and gloom across the region, it is Puerto Rico that has arguably been hit the hardest, allegorically, physically and perhaps most damaging, financially.

The US dollar value of bitcoin reached over $11,000 on November 29 for the first time in its seven-year history as institutional investors flooded the market. At the time of writing, the level has fluctuated slightly but is still hovering close to that landmark level.

The race is on to crown the world's largest e-commerce company. This particular market may count an endless number of organisations, but the battle is really only between the US' Amazon and China-headquartered Alibaba. Both have multi-billion capitalisations, huge market shares and more spare cash to spend than the economy of a small country.