Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, just announced it has expanded its trade reporting facility, BXTR, to offer a new service that enables buyside firms to meet their trade reporting obligations under MiFID II. The new service, an assisted reporting model, allows buy-side firms to enable their brokers to submit trade reports on…
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ASIC regulated Retail Forex broker IC Markets has announced today that it has yet again registered a record month for trading volumes in March 2017. March volumes totalled US$234 billion. Sydney-based IC Markets does not usually report its monthly volumes – last time its best-ever month was November 2016 at $188 billion. According to IC Markets’ Managing…
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Mr Steven Robert Noske, of Subiaco, Western Australia has today been found guilty and convicted on one count of insider trading brought by ASIC after a two week trial in the Western Australian Supreme Court. The charge related to the acquisition of 750,000 WestSide Corporation Limited shares between 6 and 10 February 2012 via a…
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Following a request of Banco de Portugal, acting as the national resolution authority of Portugal, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) has requested the suspension of the financial instruments issued by Novo Banco S.A. and NB Finance Ltd. These financial instruments are to be suspended from trading on the regulated market of the…
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The Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) has affirmed ASIC’s decision to ban Mr Ryan Batros from providing financial services for five years. The banning follows an ASIC investigation into Mr Batros’ conduct on 25 and 26 August 2014 in placing 'execution only' orders on the ASX that he had received from clients to sell shares and…
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Like GTX, the institutional FX arm of retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), the Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) just announced its March volumes and, considering the low start of the year, numbers are finally going up for them. The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 266,249 (+175.5% MoM / +4.7% YoY) and…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) proposed new rules to help customers who are in persistent credit card debt. This follows the FCA’s study of the UK credit card market, which found significant concerns about the scale, extent and nature of problem credit card debt. Under the FCA’s definition, credit card customers are in persistent debt…
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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 G R Ranking Limited / Paydayloan. G R Ranking Limited / Paydayloan is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying the scope of the consolidated tape for bonds, structured finance products, emission allowances and derivatives. The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) introduces the concept of consolidated tape providers (CTPs). CTPs will collect post-trade information published by trading venues…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published near final rules on the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) II. These include changes to the trading of financial instruments including issues affecting trading venues, transparency of trading and algorithmic and high frequency trading. The FCA is also providing an update on the…
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