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May 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC takes action against Courtenay House Capital Trading Group to protect investors

Following an application by ASIC, the Supreme Court of NSW has made interim orders by consent against Courtenay House Capital Trading Group Pty Ltd (Courtenay House Trading Group), Courtenay House Pty Ltd (Courtenay House) and a number of other parties, including freezing their assets and restraining them from carrying on a financial services business. ASIC…

May 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bats welcomes new issuer Franklin Templeton Investments to the Bats ETF Marketplace

Bats, a CBOE Holdings Inc.(NASDAQ: CBOE) company, welcomed Franklin Templeton Investments as a new issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace with a suite of three U.S. equity focused funds. The funds include: The Franklin LibertyQ U.S. Equity ETF (Bats: FLQL), which seeks to provide investment results that closely correspond, before fees and expenses, to the…

April 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC adds Blackstoneh and BlacKstone to its alert list

Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…

April 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TSX Company Services joins Diligent to offer board collaboration tools to issuers

TSX Company Services and Diligent today announced a collaboration to offer Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange issuers secure, effective tools to enable board members to work on materials in real-time from anywhere. Through this arrangement, issuers will benefit from preferred pricing for Diligent's best-in-class board management software. We are continuously looking at ways…

April 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Canadian Securities Regulators outline steps to support transition to T+2

The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today published two notices outlining amendments to support the transition from a three-day settlement cycle (T+3) for trades in Canada to two days (T+2) on September 5, 2017, consistent with the U.S. Canadian securities regulators are committed to facilitating a smooth transition to the T+2 settlement cycle and to ensuring…

April 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

LCH Ltd opens Norwegian Krone account with Norges Bank

LCH Ltd, a global clearing house, announced today that it has established deposit and intraday liquidity facilities with Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway. LCH is now settling its Norwegian Krone payments via the central bank. As part of the account opening process, LCH has become a direct member of NBO, the payments system…

April 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Catella launches the first Swedish Real Estate Fund listed on Nasdaq Stockholm

Sweden-based company active in the financial sector Catella (STO:CAT-B)’s Property Investment Management unit is launching Property Income 2017, an alternative investment fund that will invest in investment properties with stable cash flows and high dividend capacity. The fund’s AIF manager is Plain Capital Asset Management Sverige AB, and the fund’s depositary is SEB. The listing…

April 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Autorité Des Marchés Financiers creates Fintech Lab and signs partnership with R3

The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has announced the creation of its Fintech Lab. It will enable the AMF to explore the current and potential applications of new technologies among regulated entities (including market infrastructures) or in connection with its regulatory activities. The Lab will be accessible to all AMF staff who contribute to the…

April 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SFC releases report on retail futures brokers

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today published its Report on the fact-finding exercise on retail futures brokers which aimed to understand the business profiles and major risk management controls and practices of 10 major local futures brokers (the Reporting Firms). This information assists the SFC in supervising licensed corporations and helps market participants understand…

April 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Monex Group releases financial results for fiscal year March 2017

Japanese online trading company Monex Group Inc. (TYO:8698) just announced its financial results for fiscal year ended March 31, 2017. The highlights are: Japan segment Segment profit of JPY 1,768M, which is 70% decrease YoY in FYE Mar. 2017, due to decrease in stock and FX trading volume and increase in costs for parallel operation…

ASIC takes action against Courtenay House Capital Trading Group to protect investors

Bats welcomes new issuer Franklin Templeton Investments to the Bats ETF Marketplace

Hong Kong SFC adds Blackstoneh and BlacKstone to its alert list

TSX Company Services joins Diligent to offer board collaboration tools to issuers

Canadian Securities Regulators outline steps to support transition to T+2

LCH Ltd opens Norwegian Krone account with Norges Bank

Catella launches the first Swedish Real Estate Fund listed on Nasdaq Stockholm

Autorité Des Marchés Financiers creates Fintech Lab and signs partnership with R3

SFC releases report on retail futures brokers

Monex Group releases financial results for fiscal year March 2017

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