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…
Read more
The Moscow Exchange (MOEX) released its February market report with ADV down 2% MoM. The trading volume of stocks totalled RUB 662 bn in February. The average daily trading volume was RUB 34.9 bln, down 2% MoM. The T+2 sector made up 99.7% of the total secondary market trading volume and the T0 sector accounted for 0.3%.…
Read more
Cyprus financial regulator CySEC has issued an information circular, providing what it calls "additional guidance" to CIF licensed brokers on the types of bonus incentives which are no longer permissible to be offered to retail clients. In its original announcement on November 30 regarding new rules governing bonuses and trading leverage (which was exclusively revealed by LeapRate…
Read more
PT Monex Investindo Futures, the largest forex and futures broker in Indonesia, has announced that it is introducing eFXplus via API to its high-net worth clients. eFXplus, an innovative FinTech strategy platform, live simulates institutional-derived FX data from a selection of models and recommends portfolios, quant models, forecasts, and insights briefs. According to PT Monex…
Read more
ASIC has today released the findings of its review of how Australia's largest financial advice firms have dealt with past poor advice and non-compliant advisers, including how these firms have dealt with affected customers. The review—which forms part of ASIC’s broader Wealth Management Project—was focussed on the conduct of the financial advice arms of AMP,…
Read more
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced Singapore fintech start-up, INVICTUS, is collaborating with them to leverage IBM Cloud and Blockchain technologies for their Order, Logistic & Payment (OLP) platform. The platform aims to help businesses reduce wastage, redundancy and cash-flow issues in their transaction processes by disrupting the supply chain management cycle with blockchain smart contract…
Read more
Baymarkets Technology AB, a Nordic provider of FinTech and RegTech solutions to the global financial services industry, announced today the appointment of Per Andersson as Head of Sales and Business Development. His arrival brings 20 years of experience of building and managing businesses in the FinTech sector and he joins Baymarkets’ management team with immediate…
Read more
While the rest of the equity market was soaring in the wake of the Fed's Wednesday rate hike, shares of Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR) - recently renamed from FXCM Inc - dropped another 15% to close at $1.75 per share, its lowest closing price ever. Global Brokerage Inc owns 50.1% of the operating company FXCM Group…
Read more
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) sets monetary policy to meet the 2% inflation target, and in a way that helps to sustain growth and employment. At its meeting ending on 15 March 2017, the Committee voted by a majority of 8-1 to maintain Bank Rate at 0.25%. The Committee voted unanimously to…
Read more
Enormous amounts of data are inserted into and have to be processed by the European Central Bank’s securities settlement platform TARGET2-Securities (T2S) day by day. This however does not mean that T2S has already achieved its ultimate goal, Clearstream reported. The technical integration of the European settlement systems can only be a first step,” says…
Read more