(Detention) centres of finfluence

(Detention) centres of finfluence
There is increasing scrutiny on financial influencers. (Image: Getty)
David Chaplin
This month, a group of nine regulators participated in the first globally co-ordinated effort to address the plague of unscrupulous financial hucksters infecting the internet.The campaign against so-called “finfluencers”, an icky mash-up of financial and influencer, saw dozens of strongly worded letters issued to basement-dwelling trolls across the globe – or at least those domiciled in the UK, Italy, Hong Kong, Australia, four parts of Canada and the United Arab Emirates.According to the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA),...

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