The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has banned Ms Li Lee, a former employee of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC), from re-entering the industry for life following her criminal convictions. The District Court earlier found that Li, who was responsible for selling and promoting investment and insurance products at HSBC at the…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has appointed Ferheen Mahomed to serve as its Group General Counsel from today (Monday). Ms Mahomed will head HKEX's Legal Services Department and oversee the Group's legal function, including the teams at the London Metal Exchange (LME) and LME Clear. She will report to HKEX Chief Executive Charles…
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The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has become a full signatory of the IOSCO Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MMoU) after the IOSCO team of international experts assessed ADGM as fully compliant with the international benchmark for effective cross-border cooperation. The IOSCO MMoU provides a global framework for enforcement co-operation…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it obtained an emergency court order freezing brokerage accounts holding more than $29 million in illegal profits from insider trading in advance of the April 2016 acquisition of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. by Comcast Corp. The SEC alleges that in the weeks leading up to the news…
Read moreTurkey’s treasury is set to pave the way for foreign investors to issue foreign exchange-based securities as part of the Istanbul Finance Center project, in a move to attract more foreign investors into the country’s capital markets, Hurriyet Daily News has announced. Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek commented: Foreign investors and issuers can make transactions…
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Australia based international forex broker Invast Global has announced the appointment of industry veterans Andrew Pal and Cassandra Lister as specialist consultants, further strengthening the firm’s Asian prime brokerage and Liquidity offering. With a distinguished, twenty-year career at UBS under his belt, most notably as the Executive Director & CEO of UBS Futures Singapore, Andrew Pal…
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The license will allow ADS to act as financial advisor in Hong Kong for M&A transactions, fundraising and other corporate activities.
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Forex and CFD technology solutions provider Spotware Systems has announced its most recent update for its cTrader platform, trading with hedging accounts via FIX API. The scope of cTrader’s FIX API now includes application messages for Request for Positions and Position Report to allow traders to manage open positions through FIX API. In August 2016…
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Retail forex broker FXCM Inc (NASDAQ:FXCM) filed early Monday some more details regarding the US clients it is offloading to rival Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP). The sale is occurring after FXCM and its CEO Drew Niv were issued a ban from the US forex market, following settlement of allegations that FXCM defrauded its customers over…
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Forex Industry News at LeapRate was clearly dominated this past week by the drama surrounding FXCM Inc (NASDAQ:FXCM) after it and its CEO were banned from the company's home US FX market. More of our coverage from the past week follows below. But there was much more. We reported exclusively on the secret talks being…
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