ASIC AFS licence cancelled
June 05, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

OTC issuer Forex Capital Trading’s AFS licence cancelled

The Australian watchdog discovered a number of Forex CT clients suffered significant losses in the size of hundreds of thousands of dollars, including from their superannuation accounts, from investing in these products. Forex CT’s AFS licence will continue to end of July to allow setting a dispute resolution scheme in place and to facilitate the…

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Whistleblower
June 05, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Whistleblower receives nearly $50 million award from SEC

So far, the agency has awarded over $500 million to 83 individuals for their help since the first award was issued in 2012. Payment of the awards is taken out of an investor protection fund set up by Congress. It is financed through monetary sanctions of security law violations paid to SEC. To be eligible…

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June 05, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Exclusive: FX broker ATFX teams up with Autochartist

The provision of risk management tools within the Autochartist trading platform allows traders to immediately see what’s at risk in a predetermined currency value. The platform also offers education for beginners on market volatility and how to maximise profits during volatile markets. Less experienced traders will learn how to set their stop-loss and take-profit orders…

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June 05, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Fintech FXCubic partners with multi-asset broker Hantec Markets

Hantec Markets Hayel Abu-Hamdan, Group COO & UK CEO said: Our focus at Hantec Markets is to provide an unrivalled trading experience that demonstrates fairness and transparency and to maintain a stable and secure environment for our customers to trade. Our partnership with FxCubic will ensure that we are at the forefront of our industry in terms…

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Former CEO of Sirtex Medical, Gilman Edwin Wong sentenced for insider trading
June 04, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Former CEO of Sirtex Medical sentenced for insider trading

In October 2016 Wong having inside information on Sirtex’s sales sold 74,968 Sirtex shares and gained more than $2 million. Later in 2016, Sirtex released a Trading Update on the ASX devaluing the growth forecasts for the 2017 financial year. The opening price of Sirtex shares fell to $13.01 after the announcement, a decrease of…

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