Teens: Voting has never been so simple
Colorado Springs Independent (blog)
The world spreads before you. You can legally buy cigarettes and porn. Legally serve in the military. Legally vote. (OK, so maybe it's not as exciting as your 16th or 21st birthday, but still.) About that voting thing. Statistics show that few young ...

WorldSpreads' high-rollers to be pursued
Financial Times
By Simon Mundy WorldSpreads' administrators are set to pursue several high-stakes clients of the defunct spread betting group for £2.5m of losses incurred through losing bets. The company went into administration last month after informing regulators ...
Scheme to compensate spread-bet firm clientsIrish Times

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Interview mit Christian Schneider von WH SelfInvest
Broker-Test.de
Kunden merken dies leider oft erst dann, wenn es zu spät ist - das Beispiel von World Spreads ist Warnung genug. Anbieter, die irgendeine beliebige Finanzlizenz der Aufsichtsbehörde ''überdehnen'' und damit werben, Broker zu sein, obwohl sie keine ...

Worldspreads and FSA alerted to alleged fraud
Financial Times
By Simon Mundy The board of Marketspreads, formed by a 2009 buyout of Worldspreads' Irish business, wrote to the Worldspreads board in December 2011 and January 2012 to alert them to the discovery of apparent fraud and false accounting at the division ...
FSA and Worldspreads aware of alleged fraud before FSCS hitCitywire.co.uk

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ETX is set to mop up some of the mess at WorldSpreads
The Independent
ETX Capital is poised to complete a deal that will rescue some of the wreckage from the collapse of spread-betting rival WorldSpreads. The City firm considered buying the entire business at first but backed away after finding the losses at WorldSpreads ...
ETX Capital Accelerates International Expansion With Signing of Three ...MarketWatch (press release)
ETX gets WorldSpreads' Greek, Spanish, Danish armsReuters UK

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Maloney to investigate Worldspreads collapse
Irish Times
ACCOUNTANT GEORGE Maloney is to investigate the collapse of spread trading group Worldspreads, after being appointed liquidator to two of its key companies yesterday. Worldspreads collapsed dramatically in March when its board discovered a €15.6 ...

Worldspreads administrators rack-up £900000 in two months
Financial Director
By Rachael Singh Samantha Bewick and Jane Moriarty, KPMG partners, were appointed joint-special administrators to the investment business on 18 March following an application by the directors. The first creditors report showed the cost including.

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Worldspreads' clients likely to lose out
Financial Times
By Simon Mundy The remaining assets at Worldspreads are enough to repay only a third of the money owed to clients of the defunct spread betting operator, its administrators reported on Friday. The company admitted insolvency in March after misusing ...

Collapse of WorldSpreads Shows Need For Broker Diversification, Says ...
TopWireNews (press release)
A former highly regarded broker, Worldspreads had allegedly loose barriers between company and client funds, leading to a fatal shortage in capital as the broker was brought to its knees and causing potential losses to some 15000 Worldspreads traders.

Worldspreads may have misused funds
Financial Times
By Simon Mundy Worldspreads had moved 80 per cent of its clients' funds out of segregated accounts at the time of defunct spread betting operator's failure, and may have routinely misused client money for as long as five years, according to its ...