Aprelskoe Limited, the Kyrgyz Republic focused gold exploration and development company, whose shares are traded on the J P Jenkins trading platform, has announced it has engaged Vox Markets to enhance its communications with investors. Vox Markets offers a compliant platform which allows greater access to information to existing shareholders, and also gives Aprelskoe an…
Read moreGMEX Group (GMEX), a global provider of multi-asset exchange trading, post trade business solutions and technology has announced it will launch a Mauritius based International Derivatives and Commodities Exchange (MINDEX) ecosystem. The setting up of a MINDEX ecosystem was initially an initiative first announced in the National Budget 2016/2017, and the GMEX-led private sector consortium…
Read moreAbu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the International Financial Centre in Abu Dhabi, has announced that it has today launched its framework to regulate spot crypto asset activities, including those undertaken by exchanges, custodians and other intermediaries in ADGM. This follows the successful completion of a public consultation on the introduction of a robust crypto asset…
Read moreThe UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Arden & Partners. 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…
Read moreSharesPost, Inc., a liquidity provider to the private technology growth asset class, has just announced it has closed a $15 million Series C round led by LUN Partners and Kenetic Capital. The funding will be used to build out SharesPost’s Alternative Trading System (ATS) for private company shares and security tokens and to further expand…
Read moreAustralia financial regulator ASIC has announced that it has accepted a court enforceable undertaking from Vantage Global Prime, to address systems and controls inadequacies within its CFD business. Vantage is an Australian Financial Services licensee that is authorised to deal in financial products including CFDs to retail and wholesale clients. CFDs are derivative financial products…
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Read moreCyprus financial regulator CySEC issued a statement on its supervisory priorities and activities for the second half of 2018, led by overseeing the adoption of MiFID II requirements. CySEC stated that its mission is to exercise effective supervision of Cyprus Investment Firms (‘CIFs’) to ensure maximum investor protection and the healthy development of the securities…
Read moreGlobal clearing house LCH has announced that it has obtained recognition as a central counterparty from the Banco de México. The recognition for LCH’s SwapClear Service is effective from June 22, 2018 and provides a greater choice of CCPs to those participants affected by the Mexican clearing mandate. With this recognition, LCH can expand clearing…
Read moreThe Dutch gas transmission system owner and operator, Gasunie Transport Services, and the operator of the pan-European gas trading platform PEGAS, Powernext, announced that both companies will expand their cooperation: as of 1st July 2018, Gasunie Transport Services will use PEGAS as the exclusive platform for the determination and provision of the Neutral Gas Price…
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