New Zealand financial regulator Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has issued a warning regarding Binary Options broker Stern Options, operating from website sternoptions.com. Adding Stern Options to its "Businesses to be wary of" list, the FMA stated that it has received reports that representatives of Stern Options are cold calling New Zealand Residents. Stern Options is not…
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Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) announced that Mr. Henri Bergstrom has joined The Exchange as a Market Development Advisor. Previously he was the Chairman of the Board of NASDAQ OMX Armenia Exchange and CSD and Product Manager for Nasdaq Post Trade Solutions. Further he has been assigned as an advisor to deliver post trade strategies…
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Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed Y Ventures Group Ltd. to Catalist under the stock code “1F1”. Y Ventures Group is a Singapore-founded data analytics driven e-commerce retailer and distributor specialising in online retail data analytics, marketing, distribution and sale of a wide range of merchandise, under third-party brands and its private label “JustNile”. Capitalising on…
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The Vienna Stock Exchange announced that has started operating the trading system for the Zagreb Stock Exchange and additionally supplies a service and system package. The package includes real-time trading surveillance and data dissemination for the Croatian market, index calculation, downstream systems and specific database solutions and interfaces. These services along with the Xetra trading…
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BNP Paribas, CACEIS, Caisse des Dépôts, Euroclear, Euronext, S2iEM and Société Générale with the support of Paris EUROPLACE announced the creation of the European fintech venture LiquidShare. This new independent startup is the fruit of a partnership launched by its shareholders in June 2016 to develop a post-trading blockchain infrastructure for the Small and Medium…
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GreenKey Technologies, an AI-driven voice collaboration platform for the financial markets, announced today a global partnership with Red Box Recorders, an expert in voice recording technology and services, to create an integrated solution for embedded compliance recording within GreenKey's software-based trader collaboration offering. Red Box technology records voice conversations over soft client phones, turrets and…
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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 firm Sakai, Yao and Partners. Sakai, Yao and Partners is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying…
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U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Acting Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo today appointed Daniel Gorfine to serve as Director of LabCFTC and Chief Innovation Officer, effective immediately. Daniel is a well-respected leader whose expertise in market-enhancing FinTech will help the CFTC disrupt the status quo and change the way government interacts with our ever-innovating marketplace,"…
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Stripe just announced a new global partnership with Alipay, operated by Ant Financial, unlocking the Chinese consumer market for Stripe-powered businesses around the world. Starting today, businesses on Stripe can begin accepting Alipay on their websites in just a few clicks. For the first time, eligible businesses can activate Alipay right from their Stripe dashboards,…
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ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of Sydney-based company Grey Oak Services Pty Ltd (AFS 430752) for failing to lodge its financial statements and auditor's reports for the 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 financial years. The annual lodgement of financial statements and auditor's reports is an important part of a licensee demonstrating…
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