March 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Stevenson Investment Management Inc. firm

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 Stevenson Investment Management Inc. Stevenson Investment Management Inc. is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying…

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March 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Dow Jones launches Factiva App on the Salesforce AppExchange

Dow Jones today announced it has launched the Factiva app on the Salesforce AppExchange, empowering businesses to connect with their customers, partners and employees in entirely new ways. The Factiva app offers customers access to content from 33,000 premium news sources and over 20 million public and private company profiles. Factiva’s set of sources is…

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March 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

IOSCO launches its first Regional Capacity Building Hub in Malaysia

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today unveiled the IOSCO Asia Pacific Hub in Kuala Lumpur, hosted by the Securities Commission (SC) Malaysia. This initiative responds to a growing demand among IOSCO members for enhanced capacity building, particularly in growth and emerging markets. Ranjit Ajit Singh, Chair of SC Malaysia, Vice Chair of the…

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March 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

KCG trade volumes are steady in February

KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) today released trade volumes for the month of February 2017. In Market Making, KCG averaged $28.0 billion dollar volume traded (a minor decrease compared to January), 10.9 billion shares traded, and 3.4 million trades per day in U.S. equities. In Global Execution Services: KCG Institutional Equities averaged 217.0 million U.S.…

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March 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

PsyQuation completes first full integration with Australia forex broker GO Markets

Behavioral profiling based trading tool provider PsyQuation just announced that starts to offer the functionality of its robo trading coach to GO Markets clients via the brokers client portal. CEO of PsyQuation Michael Berman commented: GO Markets were focused on simplifying the sign-up process, allowing their clients to opt-in to Psyquation through their new online portal.…

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AFM imposes an order for incremental penalty payments on Miscanthus Green Power B.V.
March 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Netherlands AFM suspends trading in New Sources Energy NV

The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) just announced that it has given an instruction to suspend trading in New Sources Energy NV. Financial instrument: Shares ISIN code: NL0009822014 The reason for suspension has not been announced yet, but trading in New Sources Energy NV will be forbidden with immediate effect, as from 14th…

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March 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SFC reprimands and fines Zhongtai International Securities Limited $2.6 million

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded Zhongtai International Securities Limited, formerly known as Qilu International Securities Limited (Zhongtai), and fined it $2.6 million for failures in complying with anti-money laundering regulatory requirements when handling third party fund deposits. The SFC found that between January 2013 and December 2014 (Relevant Period), Zhongtai failed to:…

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