The French Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has informed that it amends its General Regulation and publishes an instruction following the entry into force of the new Prospectus Regulation. The national threshold above which a securities offering requires a prospectus has been raised to EUR 8 million. The implementation of this threshold on 21 July…
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Online gaming and financial trading systems provider Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) has announced that Susan Ball will join the Company's Board as a Non-Executive Director, effective August 1, 2018. Susan Ball is a Chartered Accountant with over 35 years' senior finance and board level experience in the gambling, leisure and consumer industries, with a focus in…
Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has charged Mizuho Securities USA LLC for its failure to safeguard information pertaining to stock buybacks by its issuer customers. Mizuho failed to maintain and enforce policies and procedures aimed at preventing the misuse of material nonpublic information, including maintaining effective information barriers between different trading…
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UK online trading leader IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) has reported its financial results for 2018 (IG has a May 31 fiscal year end), sporting record revenues and profits - but indicating that results will likely be lower in 2019 due to the CFD leverage caps being instituted by ESMA, scheduled to come into effect…
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The Gibraltar Blockchain Exchange (GBX) has undergone its official full-scale launch today. The newly launched exchange is now open to members of the public and will feature fiat onboarding for customers, as well as a number of trading pairs, which it is set to expand in the future. Today marks the most exciting development on…
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The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has just issued a warning against a company called Taylor, Hodgson and Associates. Taylor, Hodgson and Associates Website: www.taylorhodgson.com Address: 85 Ghuznee Street, Te Aro, Wellington, 6012 Phone: +64 4 888 1307 Email: [email protected] Reason for warning: Taylor, Hodgson and Associates is not a registered New Zealand Company and is…
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eBay and online payment giant PayPal has released a survey, unveiling key global shopper insights for merchants. This year, the company surveyed more than 34,000 consumers across 31 countries and asked how and why they shop online both domestically and internationally. At a macro-level, their responses reveal major opportunities: International online shopping continues to increase…
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has announced that Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank (U.S.A.) Limited (SuMi TRUST USA) has become the first Japanese global custodian to go live on the ALERT Global Custodian Direct (GC Direct) workflow. With GC Direct, SuMi TRUST USA can…
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Netherlands-headquartered online payment company PayU has just announced the acquisition of Israeli payments technology platform ZOOZ. The deal supports PayU’s ongoing expansion into high growth markets and targets the $994 billion opportunity in cross border payments. The ZOOZ acquisition is for an undisclosed amount but brings PayU’s total sum of investments and acquisitions in global…
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The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has just informed that it has become aware of an entity calling itself FXenergy and utilizing the website https://www.fxenergytrade.com/#/. FXenergy fraudulently claims to be regulated and licenced by the MFSA under the purported license number 5651919008284 to provide investment services. FXenergy is not a Maltese entity, it is not…
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