CME Group (NASDAQ:CME)'s new legal entity CME Amsterdam B.V. will be fully operational from 18 March 2019, since the approval from the Dutch Minister of Finance is already a fact. The newly formed Amsterdam establishment will ensure that CME Group's BrokerTec and EBS venues and CME Regulatory Reporting services (formerly NEX Regulatory Reporting) can continue to service…
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US independent futures brokerage and clearing firm R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO) has just established a new affiliate, R.J. O’Brien France S.A.S. The Paris office will open doors at the end of the month, pending regulatory approval. RJO Group has recently achieved record revenues and profits for 2018, according to RJO Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Gerald…
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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 company Lenders Club Ltd. Lenders Club Ltd is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that a federal court has resolved its action against the company 1pool Ltd. and its owner, by entering a Consent Order. 1pool Ltd. and its CEO and owner, Patrick Brunner, have been charged with illegally offering retail commodity transactions that were margined in bitcoin, failing to register as a…
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Deutsche Börse Group announced that has joined forces with Swisscom, the Swiss Information and Communication Technology (ICT) company, and Sygnum, a Swiss and Singapore-based fintech firm. The companies want to build out and grow a trusted and regulatory compliant financial market infrastructure for digital assets. The ecosystem's aim is to enable investors to tap into…
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CMC Markets Institutional just informed that it has appointed Ahmed Soliman as Senior Relationship Manager. He will be responsible both for new sales and ongoing relationship management in the Middle East. Ahmed Soliman has worked with a number of institutional liquidity providers across the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. He is proficient in both English and…
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Cboe Europe, a division of Cboe Global Markets (Cboe: CBOE), announced that Cboe Europe B.V. has just received authorisation from the Dutch Ministry of Finance and will be regulated by the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM). Cboe Europe B.V. is Cboe Europe's new subsidiary based in Amsterdam. The company is now authorised to operate a Regulated Market…
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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 company Payton Capital Partners. Payton Capital Partners is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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While the crypto community eagerly anticipates the participation of institutional heavyweights in 2019, Fidelity’s new cryptocurrency company has actually been active, silently surveying, educating, and steadily adding interested institutional investor clients, comprised at this point primarily of hedge funds and family offices. Tom Jessop, the head of Fidelity Digital Assets, recently shared his thoughts in…
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In what many may perceive as a reiteration of the obvious, the Nikkei Asian Review has reported that an unnamed panel of experts has advised the U.N. Security Council that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has been the driving force behind crypto exchange hacks since 2016 and has used its ill-gotten gains of $670…
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