FCA regulated Forex and CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has indicated that in accordance with the terms of its Share Buyback Programme announced on 2 June 2017, the Company acquired 22,000 ordinary shares of ILS 0.01 each in the capital of the Company ("Shares") on 13 July 2017 at a price of 598.54 pence per Share.…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm AXA IM Asia. 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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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) has today published CSA Staff Notice 33-320 The Requirement for True and Complete Applications for Registration to caution firms and individuals about the potential consequences of submitting false or misleading applications for registration. Each year, CSA staff receive many applications for registration that omit relevant information or contain information that…
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Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBOE) company, and the market for exchange-traded product (ETP) trading globally, today welcomed two new iShares funds to the Bats ETF Marketplace. Their launch brings the total number of iShares funds listed on the Bats ETF Marketplace to 45, as 43rd iShares ETF was listed only three days ago. The…
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Cyprus financial regulator CySEC has announced the suspension of the CIF license granted to Binary Options broker Optionrally Financial Services Ltd. The reasons given by CySEC involve issues involving protection of clients’ funds, the company's own funds, and the company's capital adequacy ratio. CySEC has given OptionRally one week to take actions in order to comply. In the interim,…
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Vela Trading Technologies LLC, which provides high performance trading, market data, and analytics technology, has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Object Trading, a global provider of a fully-managed Direct Market Access (DMA) platform, pre-trade risk controls, and analytics applications. This is the second acquisition for Vela in just a few…
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At the end of the settlement date of June 30, 2017, short interest in 2,327 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,605,955,093 shares compared with 7,678,787,261 shares in 2,328 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of June 15, 2017. The end-of-June short interest represents 3.91 days average daily Nasdaq Global Market share volume…
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Tradeview Markets, a foreign exchange brokerage and wholly owned trading subsidiary of Tradeview LTD, just announced its most recent executive hire, Mr. Kem Chong who will join the Tradeview team as ‘Head of Asia’. Mr Chong will be focusing on the company's continued expansion into the Asia region and adding a tremendous amount of experience to their…
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National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, announced that has successfully settled the first transactions using its two new services – Linked Transactions and Instruction Prioritization. ATON and Alfa-Capital Management Company have become the first companies to use these services. Both services were launched in spring 2017, and are intended to facilitate more efficient…
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NEPI Rockcastle (ticker symbol: NRP), one of the largest real estate companies in Continental Europe, began trading today on Euronext Amsterdam. At opening, based on a reference price of € 11.33 per share, the total market capitalisation of NEPI Rockcastle was approximately € 6.1 billion. NEPI Rockcastle is the company created through the merger of…
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