The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) released the current issue of its SFC Regulatory Bulletin: Listed Corporations, which included an update on how it will execute its authority as stipulated in the Securities and Futures (Stock Market Listing) Rules to protect investors. The dispatch outlined some of the recent steps taken by the…
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JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) may have taken the crypto world by surprise with its sudden “JPM Coin” introduction. The flurry of press headlines about this internal token/blockchain project have been a distraction, but if you peel back the layers of this circus sideshow, you would discover a host of other investment industry leaders touting the long-term…
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Options, a global provider of colocation services and market data for trading firms, revealed that the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX – ALC Australian Liquidity Centre), the Korea Exchange (KRX) and the Hong Kong Exchange (HKEx) have signed up to its Managed Colocation service. Sydney’s Equinix SY2 has also joined Options as its second Australian client…
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Swych, a mobile gifting platform, announced that it will begin accepting payment in a variety of cryptocurrencies. Starting today, consumers will be able to pay for gift cards from 600+ retail partners using both fiat and crypto. Swych now provides an alternative for crypto-holders to exchange their digital assets for instant cash in the form…
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When the CEO of Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange died, the password for his computer "died" with him. As a result, $190 million in deposit were lost. On 31 January, QuadrigaCX filed an application for creditor protection with the supreme court of Nova Scotia, after months of transaction delays.The company hired Ernst & Young as an independent…
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New alternative datasets are available as of today through Bloomberg Enterprise Access Point's data website, Bloomberg just informed. This step allows Data License clients to easily access and incorporate new, non-traditional forms of high-quality data from Bloomberg and alternative data providers including Thasos, Apptopia, TipRanks, PredictWallStreet, RS Metrics, Orbital Insight, OWL Analytics, Predata, Evaluate, 280First and Symphony Pharma. Our…
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AlgoTrader AG today revealed that it had been chosen by tensoralpha GmbH to provide all of its quant modelling requirements. Tensoralpha GmbH is a cryptocurrency investment fund based in Berlin, while AlgoTrader helps investment firms create trading strategies, back test them and deploy the same in the markets. tensoralpha is not the first company to…
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) issued a statement applauding the enactment of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Whistleblower Protections) Bill 2018 by Parliament on 19 February 2019. According to the new laws: The definition of a whistleblower now includes former and current employees, contractors and officers as well as their spouses and children.…
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Deutsche Börse has today launched a new crucial indicator for ETF investors known as iXLM (intraday Xetra liquidity measure), which displays the changes in an ETF’s trading costs during the trading session each day. The new indicator will allow investors to pinpoint period when the costs of trading an ETF were at their lowest so…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) opened charges against Spartan Securities Group, Ltd., a broker-dealer, and Island Capital Management LLC, a transfer agent, which also operates as Island Stock Transfer, for creating and selling a minimum of 19 bogus public companies. The scheme was initiated by Spartan Securities, which filed documents with the Financial…
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