Tag Archives: Financial Services Authority
How confidential is your confidential data in the hands of online payment solutions? Is Moneybookers fully in tune with the law?
All we online gambling players, ploppies, punters, squares, sharps and sharks share the common need of moving our money around as quickly and painlessly as possible. With credit cards not always passing muster, online payment solutions Moneybookers and Neteller are a valuable resource. Also Paypal, which still services a limited gambling market, and Click2Pay, offering [...]
The Germans In Germany & The Prediction Exchanges In Great Britain
If I have understood correctly what Fabian John has just told me, the Germans can legally trade on the British prediction exchanges regulated by the Financial Services Authority (like TradeFair Spreads or SpreadFair), but not on those regulated by the Gambling Commission (like BetFair, Betdaq, or TradeFair Binaries).
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Fabian John (who runs a web forum for [...]
BetFair is expanding into spread betting.
London Capital Group:
London Capital Group Holdings PLC
29 October 2007
29 October 2007
London Capital Group Holdings plc
Betfair White Label Agreement
London Capital Group Holdings plc (the “Company”), the financial services and
online spread betting company, is pleased to announce that it has reached an
agreement with Betfair, the revolutionary egaming operator, to provide it with
the Company’s white label spread betting [...]
UK Gambling Commission is taking effect this Saturday, September 1, 2007.
UK Gambling Commission:
1 September 2007
With effect from 00.01 on Saturday 1 September 2007, all gambling in Great Britain (except spread betting and the National Lottery) becomes subject to the provisions of the Gambling Act 2005.
Gambling Commission
The Gambling Commission regulates gambling in the public interest. It does so by keeping crime out of gambling, by ensuring [...]
Which services will be affected by the EU’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID)?
Fabian John asks the question.
EU’s MiFID = European Union’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive
The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) will introduce a single market and regulatory regime for investment services across the 27 member states of the European Union and the 3 other member states of the European Economic Area (ie Iceland, Norway and [...]
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