Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) just released its trading volumes report for the month of June 2017. Interest Rate Futures contracts The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 143,008 ( + 113.2% MoM / - 31.0% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 6,500. FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) The total trading volume…
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Moscow Exchange just announced its June volumes and total trading volumes across MOEX`s markets increased by 12.3% to RUB 78.9 trln. Turnover increased on the Bond Market (+26.9% YoY), Money Market (+20.9% YoY), Equity Market (+12.5% YoY) and FX Market (+10.7% YoY). Equity and Bond Market Total trading volumes on the Equity and Bond Market…
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The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) has just published the first set of Questions and Answers (Q&A) related to the Key Information Document (KID) requirements for Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products (PRIIPs) laid down in the European Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/653. This Q&A document aims at promoting common supervisory approaches and practices in the…
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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 TraderVC. TraderVC is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated activities which require authorisation:…
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Continuing a fairly flat month for volumes we have been seeing from leading retail and institutional eFX industry trading venues, CySEC and FCA regulated broker Exness has reported that forex volumes in its system came in at $252.0 billion in June, slightly below $253.1 billion last month. Both May and June volumes showed a nice increase over…
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Moscow Exchange just announced it will commit its innovative technologies business line and work with fintech start-ups to a new subsidiary company, MOEX Innovations. The Exchange plans to invest up to RUB 1.2 bln into innovation-focused companies and projects. Alexander Afanasiev, Moscow Exchange's CEO, said: We are striving to reinforce our position as a leader…
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The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) announced that has approved a settlement agreement with Electrovaya Inc. and its President and Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Sankar Das Gupta, in connection with the company’s failure to comply with disclosure obligations, including its failure to update forward-looking information. This settlement agreement follows allegations by OSC Staff that Electrovaya issued…
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Cyprus financial regulator has issued a €90,000 fine to Lionsman Capital Markets (Cyprus) Ltd, which used to operated Forex and Binary Options brokerages. Lionsman used to own and operate the OptionWeb binary options and NessFX retail FX and CFDs websites, however quite a while ago those brands were offloaded to two other CySEC licensed entities - OptionWeb…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Horizon Management Advisors. 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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An event was held at the Exhibition Hall of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) to celebrate the successful launch of Bond Connect, a mutual bond market access programme between Hong Kong SAR and Mainland China with Northbound trading link initially and Southbound trading link to be added later. Bond Connect has been welcomed…
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