Marex Spectron, the global commodities broker, today announced the appointment of Jarrad Lewis as US Head of Natural Gas Liquids (NGL). Lewis is based in the Houston office and reports to Hunter Baldwin, Marex Spectron Managing Director and Head of North America. Lewis was previously at ION, where he was the Co-Head of the NGL…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced insider trading charges against a San Francisco-based IT specialist who allegedly hacked senior executives at online travel company Expedia Inc (NASDAQ:EXPE) and illegally traded on company secrets. The SEC alleges that Jonathan Ly, who worked in Expedia’s corporate IT services department, illegally traded in advance of nine…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today announced that a whistleblower has been awarded approximately $3.5 million for coming forward with information that led to an SEC enforcement action. Jane Norberg, Chief of the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower, said: Whistleblowers do a tremendous service to the investing public and we will continue to…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Totally Money. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics to…
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This article was written by Ipek Ozkardeskaya, Senior Market Analyst at FCA regulated broker London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG). Italian populists said the last word on Sunday. Italy’s constitutional referendum, which was also a confidence vote for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, has been rejected with 59%. Renzi resigned amid a heavy defeat. The euro…
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Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ:FISV), a global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced that First Financial Bank in Bessemer, Alabama, has selected Fiserv as its new technology partner. Kyle Goodwin, executive vice president and CFO, First Financial Bank, commented: In working with the Fiserv team and speaking with other clients, we are confident that we have…
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Continuing our series of different viewpoints of industry experts on the CySEC bonus ban, we present today's guest post courtesy of Yael Warman from Leverate. During the past year, CySec hasn’t been shy about becoming a stricter regulator and changing its image of a once-lax regulatory body for one of a reputable, don’t-mess-with-us regulator. We have…
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Forex Capital Markets LLC, (FXCM) the US entity of FXCM Inc. (NASDAQ:FXCM), a global online provider of foreign exchange (FX) trading and related services, announced today Live Trading Integration with QuantConnect, a cloud-based algorithmic trading platform for strategy creation, backtesting and deployment. Paired with FXCM's No Dealing Desk (NDD) execution, algo traders can run strategies…
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Italians have voted 'No' to constitutional reform, but it is hardly the sweeping rejection of Europe and the euro that many commentators have implied.
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Moscow Exchange (MOEX) just announced that on December 12, 2016, the Methodology of the Russian Volatility Index will terminate and the index calculation will be discontinued. In late 2013, the RTSVX was replaced by the new RVI – Russian Volatility Index calculated based on global standards of index design. The Exchange decided to keep calculating…
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