November 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SGX welcomes No Signboard Holdings Ltd. to Catalist

Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed No Signboard Holdings Ltd. to its Catalist under the stock code “1G6”. No Signboard Holdings Ltd. is an established and well-recognised food and beverage brand in Singapore, operating a chain of seafood restaurants under its No Signboard Seafood brand, a beer business that distributes its in-house Draft Denmark brand of…

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November 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Velocimetrics partners with CloudShark for better data visibility in trading environments

Velocimetrics, the provider of real-time business flow tracking and performance analytics and CloudShark, the world’s first web-based packet capture management and analysis system have today announced a tie-up, which will enable traders, network operatives and financial IT specialists to have greater visibility into network packets of data. Velocimetrics and CloudShark have collaborated to develop a…

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November 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

AMF warns of fraudulent crowdfunding site Crowd-Partners.com

The French regulator Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has warned of the activities of the website https://crowd-partners.com/ which encourages savers to invest in various fraudulent investment solutions and abusively uses the label "Plate-forme de financement participatif régulée par les autorités françaises" without the required authorization. The website https://crowd-partners.com/ is abusively using the label "Plate-forme de…

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November 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

BoE and FCA launch next phase of Sterling Libor transition work

The Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced the next phase of work with market participants on Libor transition. From January 2018, the market-led Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Rates will have an extended mandate and broader participation. The Working Group’s new mandate will be to catalyse a broad-based transition to SONIA over…

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November 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

BaFin approves Deutsche Börse as ARM and APA

Germany financial regulator BaFin (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht / German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority) has determined that Deutsche Börse AG’s ARM (Approved Reporting Mechanism) and APA (Approved Publication Arrangement) services are compliant with all relevant MiFID II requirements. Based on this regulatory approval, Deutsche Börse’s Regulatory Reporting Hub (RRH) will offer ARM and APA services as…

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LCH SA EquityClear extends clearing services with Euronext stocks traded on Turquoise
November 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

LCH SwapAgent goes live with Cross-Currency Basis Swaps

LCH SwapAgent, a service for the non-cleared derivatives market, today announced that it has processed its first Cross-Currency Basis Swap. The first trade was conducted between Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank and was a EUR/USD Cross-Currency Basis Swap. The trade was brokered by ICAP, which is part of TP ICAP group, and was processed through…

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SGX announces trading volumes
November 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SGX welcomes Cromwell European REIT to Mainboard

Singapore Exchange (SGX) informed that it has today welcomed Cromwell European REIT (CEREIT) to its Mainboard under the stock code “CNNU”. CEREIT is the first Singapore real estate investment trust that offers investors an opportunity to invest in a diversified Pan-European portfolio. Its initial public offering portfolio consists of 74 properties in or close to…

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Hong Kong SFC
November 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SFC announces Investor ID for Northbound trading under Stock Connect

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today announced that it has reached an agreement with the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) on proposals to introduce an investor identification regime for Northbound trading under Mainland-Hong Kong Stock Connect. To prepare the market, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK) will soon issue an information…

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clone firm FCA warning
November 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against ADN UK Finance clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm ADN UK Finance. 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…

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trading forex expo
November 30, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

B2C Expos: Our Five Secrets of Success!

The following article was written by Jens Chrzanowski, Member of  the Management Board of Admiral Markets Group AS. Hello, Last week, I reported from a B2B Expo, the London Summit 2017. This week, I will write about the most recent B2C Expo that Admiral Markets joined in Germany – the World of Trading, or just WoT…

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