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 Neo Finance Limited. Neo Finance Limited is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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CUSIP Global Services (CGS) has announced the release of its CUSIP Issuance Trends Report for January 2018. The report, which tracks the issuance of new security identifiers as an early indicator of debt and capital markets activity, found an increase in CUSIP request volume for new U.S. corporate equities and debt, but sharp decreases in…
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Cyprus financial regulator CySEC has announced that it has withdrawn the CIF license suspension of Boursotrade Ltd. We had reported in March 2017 that CySEC had issued a temporary suspension of Boursotrade's license, due to “Persons who effectively direct the business”. Boursotrade Ltd operated several website brands, including boursotrade.com, boursepro.com, and Binary options broker boursebinary.com.…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Rowena Harris-Doughty has left her role as Marketing Director at Retail FX broker Destek Markets, to become Marketing Manager at deliverable spot FX dealer Monex Europe. Not to be confused with either Monex Group Inc. (TYO:8698), the publicly traded Japanese FX broker or Indonesia-based PT Monex Investindo Futures, Monex Europe is…
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Today, Vantiv, now Worldpay, Inc. (NYSE: WP), announced the release of DataEdge for Financial Institutions (FIs), a data insights and analytics tool powered by Worldpay's Vivid Data Engine™. DataEdge for FIs is an advanced reporting solution that gives banking professionals convenient and immediate access to credit and debit card portfolios through a single dashboard. Through…
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Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ:FISV), a global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced the appointment of Harry F. DiSimone to its board of directors. DiSimone, 63, founded and has served as president of Commerce Advisors, Inc., a consulting and advisory services firm founded in 2008 for the retail financial services and payments industries. From 2010…
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Established over a decade ago, OKMerchant Payment Solutions is a Brooklyn, New York-based credit card processing platform which is an independent office of Card Connect a First Data Corporation that helps businesses of all sizes reduce and/or eliminate maintenance and transaction charges when they accept credit or debit card payments from their customers. My goal…
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Big Oil is due for a disruption. The world's most important industry has been carrying on without any significant changes in its day to day routine for far too long. But now, the new tech on the block has its sights set on the multi-trillion-dollar oil and gas sector. It's official: Blockchain technology has infiltrated…
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ANZ today announced the appointment of Kevin Corbally as Chief Risk Officer, reporting to Chief Executive Officer Shayne Elliott. Mr Corbally joined ANZ in 2009 and is currently Group General Manager Internal Audit after having previously held senior institutional banking and credit management roles. Prior to joining ANZ, he was Managing Director and Head of…
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IPC, a global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, and GreenKey Technologies, creator of patented voice software with integrated speech recognition designed specifically for the financial markets, today announced that they have just signed an agreement for a significant collaboration between the firms. The agreement brings to market…
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