February 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns on Wainscott Consulting Group 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 Wainscott Consulting Group. Wainscott Consulting Group is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…

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DFSA fines individual US$52,500
February 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Dubai DFSA launches second consultation into crowdfunding framework to support SME financing

The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has launched the next phase of consultations on its proposed framework for regulating crowdfunding platforms in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), with a paper detailing its approach to investment-based crowdfunding. The consultation is the second in a series of papers which outline the DFSA’s measures to support the…

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February 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

HKFE announces revised margins for futures contracts

Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited (HKFE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), has released a list of minimum margins to be collected by an Exchange Participant from its clients in respect of their dealings in these particular futures contracts. The information is with effect from the commencement of trading on Monday,…

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SEC investor fraud
February 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CySEC beefs up Binary Options brokerage rules including 5-minute minimum and lifting restrictions on exiting trades

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has today published a consultation paper regarding its proposed reforms to the regulatory framework governing the provision of investment services in binary options by firms under its supervision (CIFs). CySEC proposes five fundamental reforms to eliminate deficiencies in the existing regulatory framework for binary options, and establish new,…

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February 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns on Halifax and Penn 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 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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February 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Gain Capital institutional arm GTX to use Ideal Prediction's analytics

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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February 13, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

The 1 secret to a successful remarketing campaign

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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February 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Just2Trade releases MT5 multi asset integration solution

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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