The SEC has recently announced that Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency in the world by market cap, will not be treated as a security by the SEC. The news is an important one, especially for what it might mean for the development of ETH-related "offsprings". Bloomberg reported that the CBOE Global Markets President, Chris Concannon,…
Read moreLeading Swiss online banking and brokerage firm Swissquote Group Holding SA (SWX:SQN) has announced that it has launched the Swissquote Multi Currency Credit Card for making payments in a variety of currencies. It allows owners of a Swissquote trading account to benefit from a simple, flexible, and secure method of payment for transactions across the…
Read moreContinuing its string of warnings against unregulated brokers and other scams targeting retail traders in Canada, Canadian regulator OSC has issued a warning against an entity called Bristol Consulting FX. Bristol Consulting FX , also doing business as www.bristolconsultingfx.com is not registered in Ontario to engage in the business of trading in securities. The company…
Read moreThe UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Viking Investments Global. 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 moreOnline furniture store listed in Prime Standard segment / Sixth Deutsche Börse Venture Network IPO home24 SE (ISIN: DE000A14KEB5) listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange today, making it the sixth start-up from Deutsche Börse's Venture Network to go public in Frankfurt. The online furniture store listed in the Prime Standard and achieved an initial listing…
Read moreFINRA has just announced details of a multi-phased effort to overhaul its registration and disclosure programs, including the Central Registration Depository (CRD)—the central licensing and registration system that FINRA operates for the U.S. securities industry and its regulators and that provides the backbone of BrokerCheck. The first phase of the transformation—a new WebCRD interface that…
Read moreThe UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Satis Asset Management. 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 moreNasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced that the number of listed companies across its Nordic and Baltic markets will exceed 1,000, as Kojamo enters the Nasdaq Helsinki Main Market while Arion Bank completes its dual listing on the Nasdaq Iceland and Nasdaq Stockholm Main Markets. This is the first time ever the total number of listed…
Read moreShivom, the blockchain-based platform aiming to create the world’s largest genomic data hub, has just announced that it will be listed on their first two exchanges, Coinbene and KuCoin. Shivom’s OmiX token has also been integrated into the Jaxx wallet. The announcement comes shortly after Shivom closed out their ICO within just 15 seconds, after…
Read moreAustralian regulator ASIC has informed the public that it has commenced civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia against Frank Cullity Wilson, former managing director of Quintis Limited (Quintis), for failing to discharge his duties as a director under section 180 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth). ASIC is alleging that by failing…
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