On 28 June 2017, the new Swiss Finance Museum will open its doors at Pfingstweidstrasse 110 The first of its kind in Switzerland, it combines historical exhibits with state-of-the-art multimedia installations. The museum is located in the new global head office of SIX, the operator of Swiss financial infrastructure. The completely redesigned exhibition introduces visitors…
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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 UK TV Care Limited. UK TV Care Limited is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying…
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Trax, a subsidiary of MarketAxess Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:MKTX) and a provider of regulatory reporting, trade matching and capital market data services, and Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBOE) company, today announced plans to offer Trax Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) customers the choice to direct equity trade reports to the Bats APA in order to…
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Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes just announced that has upgraded the MetaTrader 5 for iOS build 1605 and has simplified the request to open a real account in MT5 iOS. The new MetaTrader 5 for iOS build 1605 provides the possibility to easily open preliminary brokerage accounts. When opening a new account: Select "Open a…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today provided an update on its regulatory sandbox and unveiled the list of firms that were successful in their applications to begin testing in the second cohort of the sandbox. The regulatory sandbox allows businesses to test innovative products, services, business models and delivery mechanisms in a live environment while…
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Singapore Diamond Investment Exchange (SDiX), the commodity exchange in physically settled diamonds, today announced that it has successfully partnered with Kynetix, the physical commodity digitisation expert, and Everledger, supplier of blockchain and distributed ledger infrastructure, to complete the first part of a Proof-Of-Concept of a blockchain-based authentication and secure record-keeping service for trading diamonds on…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm London Private Finance Ltd. 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…
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Copenhagen based multi-asset broker Saxo Bank has released a fairly interesting document called Enhanced Disclosures, which provides insight into Broker Incentive, Broker stability, Client Leverage and Performance. Saxo Bank released the document as part of the company signing up formally to the FX Global Code of Conduct. Some of the interesting insights from Saxo Bank's disclosure document…
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ASIC announced that has disqualified former director Mr Colin Geoffrey Oxlade, of Adelaide, from managing companies for four years. Mr Oxlade's disqualification follows the appointment of liquidators to two companies he managed: Vanilla Management & Investment Group Pty Ltd (ACN 140 550 787) Africa Uranium Ltd (ACN 123 144 347) ASIC also found that: Mr…
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The following article was written by Ipek Ozkardeskaya, Senior Market Analyst at FCA regulated broker London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG). The Federal Reserve (Fed) raised the interest rates by 25 basis points as widely priced in by the US and the global markets. The FOMC hinted at another rate hike before the end of…
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