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The Financial Conduct Authority has announced a set of new rules to protect investors using CFD's, after it was revealed 82% of investors lost money. According to research by Financial Orbit, there are 125,000 active CFD accounts in the UK and the average loss is £2200. So, what's in store for companies offering financial spread betting and other risky investment instruments? Matt Cox spoke to Dice McCairn, Editor and Analyst at WhichInvestmentTrust, to find out more.

It’s day three of the politically sensitive appeal that will decide whether the government or parliament has legitimate authority to trigger Brexit. On Tuesday, Lord Pannick QC opened the argument on behalf of the lead claimant, Gina Miller, labelling the government’s assertion that it was entitled to use its prerogative powers to trigger Article 50 as “inherently implausible”. So, what might we expect from day three? David Mundy, Partner and Parliamentary Agent at Westminster based law firm Bircham Dyson Bell, joined Share Radio Breakfast to discuss.

Seijiro Takeshita, Professor of Management and Information at the University of Shizuoka in Japan, joined Share Radio Breakfast to discuss the biggest stories coming out of East Asia. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is to become the first serving Japanese PM to visit Pearl Harbor - the US Naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by Japan on this day in 1941. What's the purpose of the visit? And the CEO of Japanese technology firm, Softbank, has said the company will invest £39.3bn ($50bn) in US businesses.

As part of our series with financial journalist and author Rodney Hobson, we look at identity theft.

Banks' failures are leaving people vulnerable to huge financial harm. This is according to new research from The Money and Mental Health Policy Institute, which found that over 16 million people know someone else's PIN number. Sharing PINs is even more common for carers and a lack of support by the banks leaves them using risky workarounds to help those for whom they care. To find out more, Olivia Demetriades was joined by Helen Undy of the The Money and Mental Health Policy Institute and Leah Milner, a freelance journalist who lives with bipolar.

Thousands of National Lottery players had their online accounts hacked by cyber criminals just last week. More than 100,000 people in the UK had their internet access cut after a string of service providers were hit by what is believed to be a coordinated cyber-attack. TalkTalk, one of Britain's biggest service providers, the Post Office and KCom were all affected by malware, which is spread via compromised computers. To find out what needs to be done by organisations to better protect customers' data and money, Olivia Demetriades spoke to Ryan Rubin, a managing director at Protiviti, the business management consultants.

It's The Bigger Picture with Rishi Patel of FTI consulting. Simon and Rishi discussed: What is the Supreme Court, what is it considering and why are news organisations having so much trouble making it interesting for the rest of us? Why did the Italians vote against their prime minister and what might it for the future of the EU? Why has Time magazine put Nigel Farage on its shortlist for Person of the Year?

John Lloyd, legendary TV producer of QI, Blackadder and much more, joined Simon live in the studio to talk about his new book “1,342 QI facts to leave you flabbergasted”.

Every week on the AIM Show we meet interesting people behind companies listed, or in this case, soon to be listed, on the junior stock market. This week it's the turn of ECSC Group, a Bradford based provider of cyber security services to major blue-chip companies. Simon speaks to Ian Mann, the CEO.

The Financial Conduct Authority has outlined new proposals to crack down on financial spread betting. Financial spread-betting products known as "contracts for difference" are agreements that allow two parties to exchange the difference between the opening price and closing price of a contract. However they are notoriously risky- with an investigation by the FCA finding that 82% of investors lost money on them. Shares in spread betting companies fell dramatically today after the news. To find out more about the measures proposed, Simon was joined by Jake Green Regulation Partner at law firm Ashurst.