UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company SMO Investments Limited t/a The Loan Doctor. SMO Investments Limited is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is…
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Australian regulator ASIC has noted the announcement by ASX-listed Kazakhstan Potash Corporation Limited (Kazakhstan) of an $8 million reduction in a profit recognised on the issue and replacement of convertible notes in the year ended 31 December 2017. The correction will be reflected in the comparatives in Kazakhstan’s 30 June 2018 half year financial report.…
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Information giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) has just announced that it will now offer clients access to in-depth content from Real Vision, the premiere video-on-demand service for financial and business media. The agreement will enable banks, brokerage houses, asset managers, hedge funds and other Thomson Reuters clients to purchase Real Vision subscriptions for employees, and for…
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The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has just issued a warning against a scam company called Kensley Asset Management. Kensley Asset Management Address: 77 Knightsbridge London SW1X 7RB Website: www.kensley.co.uk Phone: +44 (20) 70434508 Email: [email protected] Reason for warning: Kensley Assessment Management is not registered on the Financial Service Providers Register to provide financial services in…
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UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company Oladimeji Junior Oyefeso / Elijah Oyefeso. Oladimeji Junior Oyefeso / Elijah Oyefeso is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK…
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Shyft, a blockchain-based solution that is building a trusted ecosystem to enable secure and private data transfers, has announced its first group of companies that have signed an expression of interest to become Trust Anchors, including EnStream, BDO, Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS), Polymath, and Aion, with more than one billion data points across key sectors…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that Citigroup has agreed to pay $10.5 million in penalties to settle two enforcement actions involving its books and records, internal accounting controls, and trader supervision. The charges stem from $81 million of losses due to trader mismarking and unauthorized proprietary trading and $475 million of losses…
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Trading platform Tradeweb has announced the launch of the Tradeweb U.S. options platform for institutional customer-to-dealer trading. Designed to improve efficiency and access to liquidity in the surging U.S. options market, the Tradeweb U.S. equity options platform allows institutional investors to directly source full-size price quotes from multiple market makers using the request for quote…
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Venezuela is struggling very hard at the moment, experiencing both economic and political meltdowns. Amidst a crisis that is "living" among Venezuelans in so many ways, including their daily and social lives, the Venezuelan government has introduced its second official cryptocurrency, in addition to the bolivar fuerte, the petro - an oil-backed cryptocurrency. While Venezuela…
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TABB Group has just announced that it has added to its team two capital markets industry veterans, George Bollenbacher as head of fixed income research, and Russell Rhoads, as head of derivatives research. George Bollenbacher, a longtime industry expert and thought leader, has spent twenty years as a bond trader and ten years in the…
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