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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Cyprus financial regulator CySEC has issued a €5,000 fine to regulated binary options brokerage group Novox Capital Ltd. Novox is a licensed CIF company which operates a number of Binary Options, Forex and CFDs brokerage brands, including OptionBit (at website optionbit.eu), ZoomTrader Global (at zoomtraderglobal.com), RoyalPip (at royalpip.com), and NGN Broker (at ngnbroker.com). The current…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) welcomed the Government's appointment of Stephen Yiu Kin-wah and the reappointment of Anita Fung Yuen-mei, Rafael Gil-Tienda and Margaret Leung Ko May-yee to its Board of Directors. The terms of Mr Yiu, Ms Fung, Mr Gil-Tienda and Mrs Leung will begin at the conclusion of HKEX's Annual General…
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LeapRate Exclusive Interview... It isn't easy to get big companies to implement your software for mission critical uses. And in the online trading business, where bringing in new clients is certainly essential, a broker's affiliate program - and the software running that program - can make the difference between success and failure. We thought then…
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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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ASIC has permanently banned Andrew Peter Panayiotides from providing financial services. ASIC found that Mr Panayiotides failed to act in the best interests of clients and provided advice to clients of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management in relation to exchange traded options (ETOs) that was inappropriate when considering the financial circumstances and objectives of the clients…
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Exness also reported highest ever number of active clients during a calendar month at 42,423.
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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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Special administrator RSM Restructuring Advisory LLP has filed an update on its work on the bankruptcy of retail forex broker LQD Markets. LQD Markets went belly-up in the wake of the January 2015 Swiss Franc spike - meaning that some former clients are still waiting for their money back, more than two years on. According…
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Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) announced the appointment of a new member to its Competitive Markets Advisory Council (CMAC), Jacob Frenkel, Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Group of Thirty (G-30), a private, nonprofit, international body comprised of financial industry leaders; as well as Chairman of the Board of Governors of…
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