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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ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licences of Rebate Financial Services Pty Ltd and Capstone Capital Pty Ltd for failing to comply with a number of their key obligations as financial services licensees. In particular, ASIC has found that the two licensees failed to: lodge annual financial statements and auditor's reports; and maintain…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings made in Poland that Warsaw-based X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), which operates the XTB.com retail forex brokerage as well as the X Open Hub platform business, has decided to promote from within in replacing recently departed CEO Jakub Maly. As was exclusively reported by LeapRate in…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued final reports on two sets of guidelines regarding the implementation of the Central Securities Depositary Regulation (CSDR). The CSDR harmonises the settlement of securities by providing a set of common requirements for central securities depositories (CSDs) operating securities settlement systems. SMA’s guidelines, which complement the CSDR…
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Trading began today in shares of ENBD REIT following its 105 million US dollar initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq Dubai, the region’s international exchange. ENBD REIT is a Sharia’a-compliant Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) managed by Emirates NBD Asset Management and established in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). Abdul Wahed Al Fahim, Chairman of…
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Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced that its Nordic and Baltic exchanges in Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius have issued a voluntary support program on environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure to support their listed companies. Many of the companies listed on the Nasdaq Nordic and Baltic exchanges are already global leaders in…
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The sterling hit one-month high against the dollar on Thursday, after UK retail sales data came in much higher than expected. British retail sales volumes in February rose by 1.4% from January, beating the 0.4% increase forecast by a Reuters poll of economists and following three consecutive monthly declines. For the three months to February, this…
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Effective June 2017, Deutsche Börse will be offering the new market data feed CEF® ultra+ Xetra Order by Order. The new feed will provide insight into the entire visible Xetra order book with unlimited order book depth. Market Data + Services designed the high-performance data feed for market participants requiring the highest data throughput possible…
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Burton-Taylor International Consulting, a division of TP ICAP’s data & analytics group and a provider of market research, analytics and business consulting, has appointed Andy Nybo as Director of its Exchange Vertical research practice. In heading up the exchange and transaction venue research division, Andy Nybo will be building out Burton-Taylor’s comprehensive analysis of current…
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