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Law firm Kemp Little launches free Covid-19 Toolkit for businesses

Kemp Little has launched a free advisory resource to help businesses navigate tax, legal and financial processes thrown into discord by Coronavirus.

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Westpac faces US class action suit over financial crime disclosure

Westpac today confirmed that Rosen Law Firm has filed a class action lawsuit against Westpac on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Westpac between 11 November 2015 and 19 November 2019 inclusive.

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Quinn Legal to become first Isle of Man law firm to accept bitcoin payments

Bitcoin exchange, CoinCorner, has partnered with leading legal firm, Quinn Legal, to enable clients to make Bitcoin payments directly via the legal firm’s website, becoming the first Isle of Man based law firm to do so.

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Deutsche Bank to launch new digital legal document management system globally

Deutsche Bank announced today that it has signed a contract for the NetDocuments cloud-based legal document management system.

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North West law firm Brabners sets up fintech practice

Growth continues with increasing pace for Brabners with the appointment of two new partners, Stephen Hadlow and Piers Dryden, to its corporate team based in the firm’s Manchester office.

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Ashurst opens Fintech Legal Labs for applications

International law firm Ashurst announces the launch of FinTech Legal Labs, an intense fintech accelerator programme aimed at enabling FinTech businesses to gain insight into legal issues affecting their business, as well as accessing the firm's network of corporate clients, leading financial institutions, investors and potential JV partners.

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Intesa Sanpaolo goes live with ClauseMatch

ClauseMatch, a financial technology company founded in 2012, officially announced today that it has become operational at Intesa Sanpaolo.

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Movencorp issued financial wellness patent

Movencorp, Inc, a leading provider of smart banking technologies to promote financial wellness, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent No. 10,217,162 covering the “Methods and Apparatus for Promoting Financial Behavioral Change.”

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Banking industry stops £4.5mn of fraudulent payments per day, UK Finance finds

The finance industry prevented £820 million of unauthorised fraud in the first half of 2019, up 14 per cent on the previous year, according to the latest figures from UK Finance.

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Bulgarian scammer jailed for £41.6m fraud

A Bulgarian phishing expert who created website scripts designed to look just like the real websites of legitimate companies to help criminals defraud victims out of an estimated £41.6 million has been jailed for nine years.

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Iberclear secures CSDR licence

Iberclear, BME’s Spanish Central Securities Depository, has been granted authorisation to continue operating under the EU's Central Securities Depository Regulation (CSDR), a new set of regulations aimed at improving the settlement of securities in the EU.

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Increase in sanctions revealed by Accuity Data

Accuity, the leading global provider of financial crime screening, payments and know your customer (KYC) solutions, has revealed new research into the current sanctions landscape that demonstrates a significant increase in complexity for organisations involved in global trade.

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MAS bids to help payments firms access legal services

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) have launched a new Payments Regulatory Evaluation Programme (PREP) to help connect the payments industry with legal service providers.

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CIB Limited awarded banking licence

CIB Limited, part of the Capital International Group, an Isle of Man headquartered company has been awarded a provisional class 1(2) banking licence. The licence is the first class 1(2) to be issued on the Isle of Man under the Alternative Banking Regime.

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EPA calls for wider account access

The Emerging Payments Association (EPA) has today published its response to the publication of UK Finance’s good practice guidelines on Access to Payment Account services.

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Diebold Nixdorf to contest shareholder class action lawsuit

Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD) understands that a plaintiffs' law firm has filed a putative federal securities class action complaint against the company and two former officers relating to the company's pre-earnings announcement dated July 5, 2017.

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Chainalysis names Michael Mosier chief technical counsel

Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company, has appointed Michael Mosier as Chief Technical Counsel.

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Innsworth signs agreement to fund £14bn Mastercard consumer claim

Innsworth Litigation Funding confirms that it has agreed to fully fund the £14bn Mastercard consumer claim.

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US seeks extradition of alleged cryptocurrency fraudster

In a criminal complaint unsealed today, a citizen of Sweden and his company were charged with securities fraud, wire fraud and money laundering in a scheme to defraud potential investors.

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Polymath and Blockpass team upfor ID verification

Leading security token platform Polymath has today announced a strategic collaboration with digital identity verification solution Blockpass.