The National Commission for Companies and the Stock Exchange (Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa – CONSOB) just warned against the company Binary Option Robot. Binary Option Robot is not authorised in Italy to use cold calling, i.e. to promote or set up by means of any method, via distance communication, investment services or…
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Nasdaq Dubai, the region’s international stock exchange, today announced it will create a premier platform for capital market, economic, and business thought leadership. Named ‘Market Site’, the venue in Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) will feature an attractive and technologically advanced event space for corporate functions and seminars as well as broadcasting studio facilities. Scheduled…
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Facebook has revamped its AI assistant for Messenger, M, letting it butt into conversations about payments to offer help with sending and requesting money. The upgrade, initially only for US users, lets M pop into open conversations on Messenger when it "recognises intent" and suggest relevant content and capabilities. The suggestions feature has a handful…
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The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) just announced its March market volumes report. Here are the highlights: SET Index closed at 1,575.11 points, up 2.08 pct from end-2016. Average daily securities trading value at THB 43.19 bln, down 17.83% YoY Market cap at THB 15.8 trillion, a 2.01% rise from end-2016 The Stock Exchange of Thailand…
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30 Issuers, 162 Funds Now Listed on Bats in the U.S. Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBOE) company, today welcomed a new J.P. Morgan Asset Management fund to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The J.P. Morgan Global Bond Opportunities ETF (Bats: JPGB) seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing across sectors in developed and emerging…
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Australia regulator ASIC announced that the Supreme Court of Victoria has ordered that Trevor Flugge, the former chairman of AWB Limited, pay a pecuniary penalty of $50,000 and be disqualified from managing corporations for a period of five years following the Court's finding that he contravened s180(1) of the Corporations Act. The orders follow the…
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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 firm Money Information Service. Money Information Service is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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New shareholder voting prototype serves as next step in TMX's emerging digital strategy TMX Group (TSX: X) announced a new Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) prototype as part of its strategy to maximize efficiencies and solve day-to-day client challenges across its various business areas. The company developed the electronic shareholder voting system prototype based on DLT,…
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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…
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30 Issuers, 161 funds now listed on Bats in the U.S. Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBOE) company, welcomed two new PowerShares ETFs to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The PowerShares S&P 500 Value with Momentum Portfolio (Bats: SPVM) seeks investment results that generally correspond to the price and yield of the S&P 500® High Momentum…
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