ASIC has banned Mr Geoffrey Woodcock of Auckland, New Zealand, from providing financial services for a period of four years. Between November 2011 and October 2013, Mr Woodcock was the founder and manager of Capital Alternatives Pty Ltd and a director of Velvet Assets Pty Ltd. Both of those companies promoted alternative investments in Australia.…
Read morebet365 has become the first operator to go live with Playtech’s new native mobile casino application, offering instant gameplay and improved speed and performance across all iOS and Android devices. bet365 players can download and play games in seconds, with loading speeds up to three times faster than HTML5 equivalents, giving them instant access to…
Read moreAMP Futures, a Chicago-based Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) today announced that the Rithmic R | Trader platform now includes options trading. Rithmic is a developer of high performance multi-asset trade execution software. This Initial Release includes Options Trading on all CME exchanges: CME CBOT NYMEX COMEX 2nd phase release will enable live options trading using CQG 3rd…
Read moreIndian financial exchange BSE today said it has decided to begin mock trading sessions for its international exchange in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT) from October 3rd. BSE had signed a pact with GIFT SEZ Ltd in January last year to set up BSE International Exchange and BSE International Clearing Corporation at the GIFT city…
Read moreCBOE Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ:CBOE) today announced that it plans to launch options on the FTSE Emerging Index on September 26, 2016. The FTSE Emerging Index is a market-capitalization weighted index representing the performance of large and mid-cap companies from advanced and secondary emerging markets. The FTSE Emerging Index (Ticker: FTEM) includes approximately 972 securities from 22…
Read moreTMX Market Insights has announced that it has named John Willock as Director, TMX Datalinx, effective September 26, 2016. Reporting directly to Eric Sinclair, President, TMX Market Insights and Group Head of Information Services, TMX Group, Mr. Willock will be responsible for managing the suite of TMX Datalinx real-time products and services, including all equities,…
Read moreThe Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has informed the Regulated Entities that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its Guidelines on Cross Selling Practices under MiFID II to ensure investors are treated fairly when a firm offers two or more financial products or services as part of a package. The Guidelines include…
Read moreKCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) has also released its trade volumes for the month of August 2016 today. In Market Making, KCG averaged $24.1 billion dollar volume traded, 3.7 billion shares traded, and 3.1 million trades per day in U.S. equities. In Global Execution Services: KCG Institutional Equities averaged 194.6 million U.S. equity shares traded per…
Read moreTHEAM, BNP Paribas (EPA:BNP) Investment Partners’ specialist in capital-protected, indexed and model-driven management, has unveiled a new strategic plan for its indexed fund activities, confirming its intention to double assets under management in indexed funds and triple those of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by 2020. Denis Panel, CEO of THEAM, comments: Our expertise in indexed management…
Read moreToday the UK Financial Conduct Authority put out details of the cloned firm Sky Financial Services. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. This FCA authorised firm that fraudsters are claiming to work for has no association with…
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