Just halfway through its initial three month ban on offering binary options trading products in the EU, pan European financial regulator ESMA has announced that it will be extending the ban for a further three months. The initial temporary ban was finalized in March and came into effect on July 2, running through to October…
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Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has just announced its financial results in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for Q2 2018. Higher trading volumes on all markets and a favorable change in the product mix helped achieve record high fee and commission (F&C) income. Unless stated otherwise, all figures below refer to performance in Q2 2018…
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Allan Raad of Wentworthville, NSW and his brother-in-law Yousef Joseph Bazouni of Sandringham, NSW, have been convicted and sentenced in the Downing Centre District Court after pleading guilty to ASIC charges concerning a breach of director’s duties and the fraudulent removal of company assets. Mr Raad pleaded guilty to using his position dishonestly to gain…
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SharesPost, the provider of liquidity solutions to the private growth asset class, has announced that it has partnered with Securitize, an end-to-end technology platform for tokenizing any asset, to enable security token issuers to list on the SharesPost platform. The partnership will help both investors and security token issuers by providing additional liquidity and accessibility…
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The SEC is serious about regulating the Bitcoin "market", it seems. The Security and Exchange Commission has just denied a total of nine Bitcoin ETF applications from several investors, including ProShares, Direxion and GraniteShares. The rejection of the nine applications by the three candidates was announced one day prior to the deadline (23rd August). ProShares…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Base Finance. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics to…
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Osaka Exchange, Inc. (OSE) has announced that on August 22, 2018, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order granting OSE registration as a Foreign Board of Trade (FBOT) under the U.S. Commodity Exchange Act. The registration permits OSE to provide trading participants located in the U.S. with direct access to OSE's trading…
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CellPoint Mobile, a global provider of sales and payment-side mobile technology solutions for the travel and hospitality sectors, has just announced that it has partnered with Runtriz to provide enterprise-level payment capabilities to the company's hotel guest experience mobile solutions. With CellPoint Mobile integrating its Velocity payment platform into Runtriz's suite of guest engagement solutions,…
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OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of financial markets for 10,000 U.S. and global securities, has announced Bank of San Francisco (OTCQX: BSFO), a modern community bank headquartered in San Francisco, has qualified to trade on the OTCQX® Best Market. Bank of San Francisco was previously privately-held. Bank of San Francisco begins trading today…
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The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has announced that it has recorded the first trade in the new liquid milk future. The exchange transaction covered a volume of 25,000 kilograms traded at the price of EUR 36.50/100 kg for the October 2018 expiry. The liquid milk future launched by EEX on 15 August 2018 complements the…
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