The Bermuda Stock Exchange (BSX) today confirmed that it is authorsied to issue Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) to Bermuda domiciled companies and has been doing so for several months. In making the announcement BSX Operations Manager Mr. Neville Caines noted: The BSX through its relationship with CUSIP Global Services, is now issuing LEIs to Bermuda…
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Visible Alpha today announced that it has secured an additional $38 million of equity financing. The company will use this investment to fuel its growth and maintain its position among firms driving efficiency, transparency and alpha generation in the institutional research process and helping solve for the research valuation and budgeting requirements of MiFID II.…
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AxiomSL, the regtech provider of regulatory reporting and risk management solutions, today announced the appointment of Patrick Ward as Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Business and Partnership Strategy. Ward will play a key role expanding the company’s footprint across EMEA and developing strategic global relationships. Prior to joining AxiomSL, Ward was Managing…
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The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) just announced that, no certification examinations (advanced or basic) will be carried out during February and March 2018, due to the up-date of the examination material, in the light of the new Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law of 2017. The current examination material will be…
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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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