August 28, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex Industry Week Review: Leverate exits binary options, FXDD-IronFX merger, Swissquote's new brand, and lots more…

It was a very mixed bag of Forex Industry News this past week at LeapRate. Companies exiting business lines, companies entering business lines, M&A, new logos and brands... Our most popular guest posts this week dealt with two important questions: What is your Company’s Content Brand? by MediaGroup's Bart Burggraaf, and How much does downtime really…

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August 27, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC remakes ‘sunsetting’ class orders on dollar disclosure

ASIC has made a new legislative instrument to replace three class orders on dollar disclosure that were due to expire (‘sunset’) on October 1, 2016 and April 1, 2017 respectively. The new legislative instrument is ASIC Corporations (Disclosure in Dollars) Instrument 2016/767. The instrument has the same effect as relief that ASIC had granted by…

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August 26, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns on clone firm of IBL Markets

Today the UK Financial Conduct Authority put out details of the cloned firm IBL Markets. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. The clone firm are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…

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August 26, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC adds Amberfield Group to its alert list

Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…

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August 26, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC publishes fifth report on corporate finance regulation

ASIC has published its fifth report on the regulation of corporate finance issues in Australia. The report, which covers the period January to June 2016, provides companies and their advisers with insights into ASIC's regulatory approach in the corporate finance sector and aims to assist them with their associated legal and compliance obligations. It also…

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August 26, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Brian Myers resigns as VP Sales of OANDA Europe

LeapRate has learned that Brian Myers has resigned as VP Sales of OANDA Europe Limited, the FCA-regulated UK subsidiary of global retail forex broker OANDA Corp. He was also a board member of the UK company. The resignation was effective as of August 18. Myers was one of a number of executives who joined Daniel…

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August 26, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Directors of Storm Financial found to have breached their duties under the Corporations Act

The Federal Court has found that the directors of Storm Financial, Emmanuel and Julie Cassimatis, breached their duties as directors. The Court also found that Storm Financial provided inappropriate advice to certain investors. Since around 1994, Storm Financial operated a system created by the Cassimatises, in which what ASIC considered to be "one-size-fits-all" investment advice…

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