Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has just announced that it will launch trading in options on its new futures offering, the US 500 Index futures contract. The options contracts will expire on the third Thursday of March, June, September and December. The first expiration date will be 21 March 2019. MOEX has already informed that a revised…
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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 Bitprofiting (operated by Finance Advisory GMBH & Co). Bitprofiting is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Bitcoin FX Option. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…
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Sydney, Australia based boutique prime broker Invast Global has just announced that has opened a new Hong Kong office. Senior Executive Marcus Fung, who has been with Invast since 2013, will lead the Hong Kong business as its CEO. Invast Global has committed to the FX Global Code of Conduct back in June 2018. The…
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White label trading education provider TraducationFX has added a cryptocurrency calendar to its line of crypto-oriented products. The calendar includes upcoming events that are anticipated to affect the crypto market: conferences, exchange listings, forks, and other updates. At the moment it covers about 25 of the most popular currencies. Denis Alyanov, CEO of TraducationFX, commented…
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RegTek.Solutions, the provider of global regulatory reporting solutions, has just informed that it has appointed Chris Cornish as a Consultant Business Analyst based in London. Cornish previously worked at IHS Markit where he was a Senior Business Analyst and Securities Financing Transaction Regulation (SFTR) specialist. Prior to this, he was at ICBC Standard Bank, focusing…
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The Financial Services Agency (FSA), Japan’s regulatory watchdog, will either give the green light to seven new crypto exchanges to commence operations in the country in the next two months or delay the licenses for a subset of the group. The FSA had instituted new procedures relating to exchange license applications in 2018 to accommodate…
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Australian regulator ASIC has just announced that it has charged Richard Gardner, a credit representative and former financial adviser, and Advanced Wealth Financial Services Pty Ltd with unauthorized financial services offering. The company and Gardner are carrying on a financial services business without being authorized or licensed to do so. Advanced Wealth Financial Services is…
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The U.S. tech giant Google has had an ongoing “Love-Hate-Relationship” with the cryptocurrency industry for the past year. It first banned crypto-related ads on Google Adwords back in March of 2018, citing a need to protect its customers from fraudulent offerings. It then reversed itself in late September by modifying the ban, effective in October,…
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Ford is going to implement blockchain to keep record of cobalt suppliers in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as reported by Telegraph. Cobalt is the major metal used for the construction of batteries for electric vehicles. The proper quantity of metal supplied will be traced by a blockchain pilot program, launched by Ford, LG Chem,…
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