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January 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

GMO Click releases consolidated operating revenue, good ending of 2016

GMO Click Holdings, Inc. (TYO:7177), the parent of Japanese online trading giant GMO Click Securities, has released its monthly preliminary report of consolidated operating revenue for December 2016. Operating Revenue in December 2016 was ¥1,962 million, or 22.3% less than the ¥2,525 million same month in 2015. Q3 2016 was total ¥6,771 million, basically the…

Montréal Exchange launches trading on London time

January 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bourse De Montréal announces new Vice President and Chief Regulatory Officer

Montréal Exchange just shared the appointment of Julie Rochette as Vice President and Chief Regulatory Officer of the Regulatory Division of the Montréal Exchange, effective January 16th. Rochette assumes this role following the recent appointment of Brian Gelfand to the role of Chief Commercial Officer for CDS and CDCC. Julie Rochette will lead the Regulatory…

January 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

AFS licence cancelled after Core Insurance fails to lodge financial statements and auditor reports

ASIC has cancelled the Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence of Sydney based company Core Insurance Pty Ltd for failing to lodge financial statements and auditor reports for a period of two years. This is in breach of both its legal obligations and licence conditions. ASIC Deputy Chair Peter Kell said: Licencees are required to lodge…

January 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Moscow Exchange announces December market report, FX ADV is up 14% MoM

Moscow Exchange has just announced its monthly market report for December 2016. The trading volume of stocks totalled RUB 983 bln in December. The average daily trading volume was RUB 44.7 bln, up 4.7% MoM. The T+2 sector made up 98% of the total secondary market trading volume and the T0 sector accounted for 2%.…

January 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FastMatch hires Hotspot FX veteran Trent Beacroft to head sales in Singapore

Forex ECN FastMatch has just announced that Trent Beacroft has joined the company as Managing Director of Sales in Singapore effective February 1st, 2017. Beacroft will be leading sales of FastMatch products to hedge funds, banks, brokers and asset managers in Asia. For the last 8 years Trent Beacroft has been Head of Asia Pacific for…

January 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ESMA calls for consistent application of MIFIR product intervention powers

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today an Opinion regarding the scope of the product intervention powers under the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR). These powers can be exercised by both national competent authorities (NCAs) and ESMA from 3 January 2018. Currently, the powers will only apply to MiFID investment firms…

January 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns on Peyton Private Bank firm

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 Peyton Private Bank. Peyton Private Bank is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…

January 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Gas trading platform PEGAS with record results in 2016

PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, recorded its best annual traded volume with a total of 1,733.3 TWh traded in 2016. This represents an increase of 69% compared to 2015 (1,024.8 TWh). This development was achieved across all PEGAS market segments. Dr. Egbert Laege , CEO of Powernext, commented: The year 2016…

January 16, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

MOEX announces malfunction on its Exchange Equity & Bond Market

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) reported that at approximately 14:30 MSK on 16 January 2017, the Exchange's IT team observed inaccurate operation of software used to produce order tables for one of the repo trading modes. The malfunction could potentially result in errors in accepting orders from trading participants in other trading modes of the Equity &…

January 16, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SGX welcomes Samurai 2K Aerosol to Catalist

Singapore Exchange (SGX) just announced that has welcomed Samurai 2K Aerosol Limited to Catalist under the stock code 1C3. Established in 1997, Samurai 2K is a Malaysia-based aerosol coating specialist with a focus on high performance coating solutions for the automotive refinishing and refurbishing industry. The company manufactures, distributes and markets its products under its…

GMO Click releases consolidated operating revenue, good ending of 2016

Bourse De Montréal announces new Vice President and Chief Regulatory Officer

AFS licence cancelled after Core Insurance fails to lodge financial statements and auditor reports

Moscow Exchange announces December market report, FX ADV is up 14% MoM

FastMatch hires Hotspot FX veteran Trent Beacroft to head sales in Singapore

ESMA calls for consistent application of MIFIR product intervention powers

FCA warns on Peyton Private Bank firm

Gas trading platform PEGAS with record results in 2016

MOEX announces malfunction on its Exchange Equity & Bond Market

SGX welcomes Samurai 2K Aerosol to Catalist

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