April 30, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ASIC bans Spectrum Wealth financial adviser

ASIC found Myers to lack adequate training and competence to provide financial services. SMSF may impact customers’ retirement savings and advisers must take the personal circumstances of their clients into account when recommending the establishment of SMSFs. ASIC also banned a New South Wales adviser Alexander Bruce Thomas for a period of three years. Thomas…

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April 29, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

AcadiaSoft teams up with Margin Reform and Margin Tonic to provide UMR compliance support

Margin Reform will provide clients with advice on strategy and insight across derivatives, repo and securities lending for the margin, collateral and legal domains. Margin Tonic will assist clients with defining, delivering and stimulating change within collateral and post-trade domains. The collaboration will allow clients to access a suite of UMR educational workshops, analysis, strategy…

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April 29, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

New Zealand FMA adds Techvision to its warning list

New Zealand watchdog FMA also reported that Techvision is not registered as a financial service provider and it is unable to offer financial services to New Zealand residents. Read More: New Zealand FMA adds accessfinancenz.com to its warning list New Zealand FMA adds MetalsWise to its warning list New Zealand FMA adds Horse Forex and Whitley…

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FlexTrade adds Paul Beatty to team
April 29, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Senior sell-side industry expert Simon Greenwell joins Liquidnet as non-executive director

Vicky Sanders, Global Head of Investment Analytics at Liquidnet commented: The sell-side will be absolutely key to the development of Liquidnet’s business in the future, and as one of the most experienced sell-side research professionals around, Simon will play a big part in the next stage of our evolution. His understanding, experience, and connections will…

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fca warning
April 29, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Cryptotraderoptions, SLBE BVBA and others added to FCA warning list

Cryptotraderoptions Address: 66 Great Suffolk St, London, SE1 0BL, UK Telephone: +15203650313 Email: [email protected] Website: https://cryptotraderoptions.com/en/ SLBE BVBA (clone of EEA authorised firm) Address: The Shard, 32 London Bridge St, London, SE1 9SG, United Kingdom Telephone: 02036036294 Email: [email protected] Website: www.slbe-bvba.com Alpstone Capital Services Limited (clone of FCA authorised firm) Telephone: +44(0)203 745 9198 Email:…

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Whistleblower
April 29, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Whistleblower receives $18 million award from SEC

So far, the agency has awarded over $448 million to 81 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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fxcm
April 29, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FXCM releases commission-free share CFD trading expansion

The share CFD trading will be provided on MetaTrader 4, the Trading Station platform and on mobile devices, supporting connectivity for existing customers and reducing the need to switch between providers. FXCM will launch the product for South African and Australian customers with European customers next in line. Brendan Callan, CEO of FXCM said: “Share…

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FINRA releases report on the rise of RegTech
April 29, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

DASH launches LDB platform for regulatory capital compliance

The new DASH 360R suite allows clients to support multiple users and parallel optimizations and build their own unique configurations to meet their specific needs. Given the current work-from-home status of most clients, an increasingly necessary feature is secure remote access. The new platform simplifies it replacing the cumbersome and sluggish VPN configurations used by…

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