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 Halifax and Penn. Halifax and Penn is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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GTX, the institutional foreign exchange (FX) arm of Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), and Ideal Prediction, an independent trading analytics and data science company, are offering clients FX data and advanced analytics to optimize their FX trading. The market data, tools, and services enable buy-side and sell-side market participants to optimize profitability and simulate strategies…
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A successful B2B remarketing campaign can be boiled down to 5, excuse me, 1 secret. Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate, explains. For those relatively new to the world of digital marketing, remarketing (or re-targeting) refers to a popular advertising technique amongst PPC professionals, where they focus their marketing campaigns on visitors who have already visited…
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Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes just announced that the pool of liquidity providers for MetaTrader 5 is expanding. In the wake of the brokers' interest in the platform, Just2Trade Online Ltd has released an integration solution based on the MetaTrader 5 Gateway to MetaTrader 5. According to Just2Trade Head of Operations Evgeny Zhilin, this is…
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The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has commenced legal proceedings in the Court of First Instance to seek disqualification and compensation orders against Mr Tse On Kin, former chairman and executive director of Kong Sun Holdings Limited (Kong Sun) and China Sandi Holdings Limited (China Sandi), for devising a scheme to conceal his interests in…
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On 30 January 2017, ESMA has issued an Opinion, addressed to national regulators in order to ensure a harmonised approach across the EU, in which it sets out the following four high-level principles which UCITS must follow when setting up different share classes: common investment objective; non-contagion; pre-determination; and transparency. It should be noted that…
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LeapRate Exclusive... It isn't often that a large block of active retail forex traders (or IBs) come up for grabs. So when it happens, it shouldn't really come as a surprise that rival retail forex brokers do all they can to get a piece of that action. This is, after all, an industry more dependent…
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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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