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Regulators Slapped Industry with Almost $7b Fines in 2022

2022 saw an unprecedented surge in fines issued by global financial services regulators, according to SteelEye’s Fine Tracker. Its newest report analyzed financial penalties imposed by five key regulators showing that the overall amount of fines exceeded $7 billion. SteelEye’s inaugural Fine Tracker analyzed financial penalties issued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), […]

Electronic Technology, the XR Industry and the Kopin Corporation

There has been a warm welcome for the US stock market in the first trading week of 2023, following a sluggish wage growth in the non-farm payroll report last Friday which sparked market hopes for a less-hawkish Fed  (though less likely for the central bank to reverse its monetary policy). Fig.1: US Non-Farm Payroll and […]

More Transparency Is Needed in the Crypto Industry

The high-profile collapse of FTX was more proof, if we needed any, that the crypto bull run is over. The extraordinary events of 2019 through to 2021, which included the COVID-boom of retail investors in crypto, created a crypto gold rush in which proper risk management and operational transparency were overlooked, in favour of riding […]