Eurex
January 13, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Eurex saw 29% growth in the OTC Clearing space in 2020

The company attributed the volumes to a large extent to the Partnership Program which offers participants the chance to share in the economics of OTC IRD clearing and have a say in the governance of Eurex Clearing. Portfolio switch activity also increased significantly throughout the year, while Eurex contracts continue to show a similar spread…

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January 12, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Founder of $147 million GemCoin crypto Ponzi scheme sent to prison for 10 years

He claimed that USFIA extracted amber and other gemstones from non-existent mines it “owned” in the United States, the Dominican Republic, Argentina and Mexico. He ultimately managed to obtain $147 million from 72,000 victims spread globally. The Department of Justice described USFIA as a “multi-level marketing program” which compensated investors for recruiting other investors with…

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new appointment
January 12, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Former CFH CEO Marc Levin joins United Fintech

Marc Levin added: I am delighted to be working with Christian again – he always challenges me and encourages me to ‘think big.’ I am hugely motivated by the opportunity to facilitate banks and financial institutions in their transition to a digital world, accelerating their implementation of innovative software for capital markets. Levin continued I…

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ASIC, AFS licence
January 12, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ASIC cancels Halifax Investment Services’ AFS licence

On 8 January 2019 the Australian watchdog suspended the Halifax AFS licence until 10 January 2020. The suspension followed the appointment of Morgan Kelly, Stewart McCallum and Phil Quinlan of Ferrier Hodgson as joint voluntary administrators of Halifax on 23 November 2018. On 20 March 2019 at the second creditors meeting it was decided to…

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January 11, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Weekly forex data: inflation in view

From a technical perspective, support around $1.35 has yet to be clearly broken. Despite the recent movement below both the 50 and 100 SMAs, selling volume remains low this week so far and we now have clear oversold signals from both the slow stochastic (15, 5, 5) and Bollinger Bands (50, 0, 2). Both of…

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