The ltalian financial watchdog CONSOB has ordered the black-out of 6 new websites that oferfinancial services illegally, bringing the total number of websites blacked out to 1,000, a historicthreshold, reached in just over four years of commitent.

Below are the new websites Consob has ordered to be blacked out:

Bitblanco (website www.bitblanco.co and related page https://webtrader.bitblanco.co):

Stormlnvest (website https://storminvest.io)

Cryptogo365 Ltd (website https://cryptogo365.com);

TCRinvest (website https://tcrinvest.com and related page https://trading.tcrinvest.com):

EuroXTradeFX (website www.euroxtradefx.com)

The Authority availed itself of the powers deriving from the "Decreto crescita" ("Growth Decree'Law no. 58 of 28 June 2019, Article no. 36, paragraph 2-terdecies), on the basis of whichConsob can order lnternet service providers to block access from ltaly to websites offeringfinancial services without the proper authorization.

The regulator explained that it can take several days for the black-out of these websites due totechnical reasons.