The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) Index ended 2017 at 1,753.71 points – the year’s closing high, up 13.7 percent from end-2016, while a combined market capitalization of SET and Marker for Alternative Investment (mai) hit the fresh record high at THB 17.9 trillion (USD 542.4 billion), up 15.6 percent from end-2016. The average daily…
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HM Treasury has today announced the appointment of Charles Randell CBE as the new Chair of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Charles Randell is currently an external member of the Prudential Regulation Committee of the Bank of England and a non-executive board member of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Randell will take…
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Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced that it has today welcomed Memories Group Limited to Catalist under the stock code “1H4”. Memories Group is a tourism company in Myanmar. It has developed an “Integrated Tourism Platform” that brings its three business segments, namely experiences, services and hotels, under one cohesive brand which allows operational synergies, economies of…
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Traders using at least two major online discount brokerage platforms are complaining of sporadic outages and expressing frustration that the latest glitch has tied their hands amidst a broad plunge in marijuana stocks, Financial Post reported earlier today. Clients of TD Bank’s WebBroker and Royal Bank’s RBC Direct Investing platforms have again taken to social…
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) announced today that in accordance with the terms of the outstanding warrants to purchase common stock of JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM/WS), the warrant Exercise Price will be reduced to $41.764 per share from $41.834 per share, and the Warrant Share Number will be increased to 1.02 from 1.01, effective…
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Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) has reminded investors of the recent QFMA mechanism approved by Qatar Financial Markets Authority (QFMA) with regards the mechanism to not suspend trading of the shares of the companies listed on QSE on AGM days as of January 1st, 2018. The QFMA approval included a set of procedures to be followed…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Binary Escrow. 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 to…
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) announced that it has recently assessed a $70 million civil money penalty against Citibank, N.A., for failing to comply with the agency’s 2012 consent order related to Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and anti-money laundering (AML) deficiencies. In its 2012 order, the OCC cited the bank for…
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Exchange holding company Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has just reported its December and full-year 2017 trading statistics. The data sheet "Cboe Global Markets Monthly Volume & RPC/Net Revenue Capture Report" contains an overview of certain December and full-year 2017 statistics. Annual Trading Records Set in 2017 Several trading records were set for the…
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While everyone was talking about Bitcoin a month ago and its price skyrocketed to meteoric levels, now, investors' eyes are turning to Ripple (XRP). The cryptocurrency has grown to around $4.00, while it was around 20 cents just two months ago. Such an increase has shifted the focus from Bitcoin to Ripple, especially after Ripple…
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