Contego, the RegTech and compliance specialist, informed that it has been chosen by The Open Banking Implementation Entity (OBIE), the body created by the UK’s largest personal and small business current account providers to create a better way to move, manage and make more of your money, to verify its users and to support the…
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In the context of the ongoing disputes regarding assets of the Central Bank of Iran (Bank Markazi), Clearstream Banking S.A., Luxembourg, a 100% subsidiary of Deutsche Börse AG, announced that it was served today with a complaint of Bank Markazi naming Banca UBAE S.P.A. (UBAE) and Clearstream as defendants. The complaint filed before the Luxembourg…
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2017 was “absurdly good”, 2018 is shaping up no worse.
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ANZ today announced it is filing joint court submissions with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) on an agreed settlement for a number of cases where car finance brokers or dealers engaged in suspected fraud when submitting loan applications on behalf of customers to Esanda between 2013 and 2015. In a statement of agreed…
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Exactly a month after dropping its bombshell proposal of a hard 30x cap on CFD leverage, European pan financial regulatory body ESMA has taken the next step in enacting its proposals by formally opening a 'call for evidence' from the public and affected parties to give formal feedback on its proposals. The consultation period will…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) today announced the settlement of January expiry Cboe bitcoin (XBT) future. The settlement price was $10,900.00, as determined by the 4:00 p.m. ET Gemini Exchange bitcoin auction. Cboe XBT futures, the first regulated futures of their kind, launched on December 10, 2017, and a total of over 124,000 contracts…
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The Israel Securities Authority (ISA) said on Sunday it approved a plan to allow Israeli companies traded in Singapore, Hong Kong and Toronto to easily dual-list on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE). The dual-listing arrangement that came into force in 2000 in response to worldwide globalization, allows companies whose securities are listed for trade…
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Payments services and technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) has just provided the following pre-close trading update for the year ended 31 December 2017. The Group generated record revenues and transaction processing volumes in Q4, with the latter exceeding US$ 1 billion for the first time in December. This excellent Q4 performance followed a…
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ASIC announced that it has banned Kimberley Holgate, of Wagga Wagga, NSW, from providing financial services for five years. Ms Holgate was an authorised representative of Commonwealth Financial Planning Limited (CFPL) from January 2014 to October 2015. ASIC found that Ms Holgate: engaged in conduct that was likely to mislead by cutting clients' signatures from…
Read moreGlobal Brokerage Inc (OTCMKTS:GLBR), formerly known as FXCM Inc, has taken the next step in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization, filing a 'T-3' form with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to qualify the new debt it will issue to current holders of the company's $172.5 million of outstanding Convertible Notes. The new debt will…
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