Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…
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The securities regulatory authorities in Ontario, Alberta, and Saskatchewan (the participating jurisdictions) released CSA Multilateral Staff Notice 51-349 Report on the Review of Investment Entities and Guide for Disclosure Improvements, which summarizes key findings from an Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) staff review of the continuous disclosure of reporting issuers that meet the definition of an…
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Copenhagen based multi asset brokerage Saxo Bank has issued its financial results for 2016, indicating a return to profitability and healthy overall growth in the business. Comparing Saxo Bank's results to 2015 should be taken with a grain of salt, however. The firm's 2015 results were hurt on both the top and bottom lines quite…
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Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…
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Moscow Exchange announced that has made an update to its indices. The coefficients for Moscow Exchange indices come into force from March 17, 2017 and can be see in the table below: № Index Code Currency Index Name Divisor 1 MICEXINDEXCF RUB MICEX Index 4,782,605,957.6012 2 RTSI USD RTS Index 151,818,269.5514 3 RTSSTD RUB MICEX Blue…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm ABSA Wealth Management. 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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SLS, a long-standing partnership of SIX Swiss Exchange with Liquidnet, just announced that will give JP Morgan (NYSE:JPM) access to genuine block liquidity with unrivaled average execution size, providing maximum price improvement and minimal market impact. SLS unites participants with over 830 buy-side institutions actively trading more than 3'100 large-, mid- and small-cap stocks across…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings in the UK that FCA regulated institutional FX brokerage ACM Group plc, which operates under the brand name Alpha Capital Markets, has posted a loss of £2.1 million (USD $2.6 million) in fiscal 2016. Alpha has a September 30 fiscal year end. The news was not all…
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FTSE Russell, the global index and data provider, announced that Sean Smith has joined the firm as Managing Director of Derivatives Licenses, to lead the company’s efforts to further expand its options and futures business. Dozens of FTSE Russell indexes are used as the underlying benchmarks for options, futures and OTC cleared derivative products. Indexes…
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Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) announced Canada Goose, a maker of Arctic luxury apparel, began trading on TSX this morning under the symbol TSX:GOOS. Canada Goose is the largest retail IPO year-to-date 2017 on TSX. TSX is extremely proud to welcome Canada Goose to the market. Made in Canada and an iconic global brand, TSX is…
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