Aumann AG (ISIN: DE000A2DAM03) was listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange today, Deutsche Börse just announced. The placement volume of the company was around €250 million. The initial listing price was €48.20; the issue price €42.00. Berenberg, Citigroup and Hauck & Aufhäuser led the IPO. Berenberg is also the designated sponsor…
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IBM Security (NYSE: IBM) and SIX, the operator of the infrastructure underpinning the Swiss financial sector, today announced plans to leverage IBM Watson for Cyber Security in a new cognitive Security Operations Center (SOC). The new facility will be housed at SIX’s offices in Switzerland to provide localized cyber security services tailored to needs of…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) announced that will introduce 5-year China Ministry of Finance Treasury Bond (MOF T-Bond) Futures on Monday, 10 April 2017. HKEX’s MOF T-Bond Futures will be the offshore markets’ first futures on domestic Chinese government bonds. HKEX is introducing the new futures to meet international investors’ growing demand for…
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The number of complaints regulators have received in the first half of 2016 by financial consumers has increased, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) says. ESMA’s recent report on trends, risks and vulnerabilities (TRV) reveals that the total number of complaints reported across the EU was 7,026 in 1H16 compared to 5,152 in 2H15.…
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The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has resolved its concerns with Merrill Lynch Far East Limited (MLFE) and Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Limited (MLAP) over internal control failures. Under the resolution, the SFC reprimanded and fined them a total of $15 million for breaches of the Code of Conduct and the Internal Control Guidelines. In…
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Euronext and Vigeo Eiris today launched the CAC 40® Governance Index, a thematic index that rates companies in the Paris market’s benchmark CAC 40 index on their corporate governance performance. The CAC 40® Governance Index takes the constituent stocks of the CAC 40 index and weights the components based on their corporate governance score, using…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Cyprus regulated broker Opteck (operating at opteck.com) has recently dropped Binary Options from its list of tradable assets. Opteck, which is a brand of CySEC CIF license holder Centralspot Trading Ltd, has been operating for several years and marketing itself mainly as a Binary Options broker. As a licensed CIF…
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FCA regulated retail forex and CFD broker INFINOX Capital Limited has announced that it is partnering with London-based trading academy Knightsbridge to offer a range of forex trading training courses and mentoring. Clients will be able to participate in training courses ranging from a 3 Hour FX Insight seminar, a 5 week Online FX Master…
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ANZ today announced an update on variable home loan and business loan interest rates. Principal and interest owner-occupier home lending Variable interest rates for the 80% of owner-occupier borrowers who repay principal and interest on their standard variable home loan remain unchanged at 5.25%pa. Investor home lending The variable interest rate paid by property investors…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Liberty Specialty Markets/ Liberty Corporate Capital Markets. 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…
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