The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of three new cloned firms: ReLoan UK, Pulse Finance, and Guaranteed Loans. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details…
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that has signed cooperation agreements with the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR) and the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) of France to enhance FinTech cooperation between both countries. The cooperation agreement provides a framework under which ACPR, AMF, and MAS will share information about emerging…
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ThinkMarkets, a global multi asset brokerage, just announced that has enhanced its ThinkTrader mobile trading app through the implementation of Neumob’s SDK, an app acceleration framework, to significantly reduce latency for global forex and CFD traders. Through the partnership, ThinkMarkets’ mobile app users will see a drastic change in the performance of the platform. Traders…
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Financial markets regulator the National Commission for Companies and the Stock Exchange (CONSOB) has forbidden (pursuant to art. 99, paragraph 1, letter d, of the Consolidated Law on Finance - CLF) offers to the public resident in Italy, for the purpose of investments of a financial nature, through the website www.profits25.com. The CONSOB also announced…
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Moscow Exchange (MOEX) and Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) announced today that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), aimed at expanding the cooperation between the two exchanges in terms of information sharing, high-level visits, training and exchange programmes for staff, and other areas of business cooperation. Li Zhengqiang, Chairman of DCE, said during the…
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Digital wealth manager Moneyfarm just launched a partnership with Allianz Global Investors which will provide access to an active wealth management solution at institutional cost to UK employees of Allianz companies. This follows Allianz’s strategic investment in Moneyfarm, which was announced in September 2016. In an industry and European first, the two organisations have developed…
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Bitcoin ATM specialist, AlphaVend just announced the installation of its second London ATM, (the third nationally) strategically situated between Euston and Kings Cross underground stations. The UK’s independent high street provider of foreign exchange services will play host to the ATM which is located at the No1 Currency store, 128 Euston Road. Customers can buy…
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Provider of network, cloud, and security services BT Global Services UK (LON: BT.A) just announced the opening of a new customer experience showcase for its financial industry clients. Located at its Adastral Park research and development hub in the UK, it demonstrates how digital innovations can be securely adopted throughout a financial services organisation to…
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Mizuho Financial Group, Inc., Mizuho Bank, Ltd., and Marubeni Corporation announced that have agreed to start exploring for opportunities to provide new financial services utilizing FinTech in the ASEAN region. As various new FinTech based financial services are recently being offered, the companies will explore opportunities to provide community-based financial businesses in the ASEAN region…
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At the end of the settlement date of March 15, 2017, short interest in 2,328 Nasdaq Global MarketSM securities totaled 7,352,374,802 shares compared with 7,280,848,100 shares in 2,345 Global Market issues reported for the prior settlement date of February 28, 2017, as announced by Nasdaq. The mid-March short interest represents 4.54 days average daily Nasdaq…
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