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December 29, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

SFC bans a former staff of HSBC Broking for life

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has banned Mr Lam Yuk Wai, a former staff of HSBC Broking Securities (Asia) Limited, HSBC Broking Futures (Asia) Limited, HSBC Broking Futures (Hong Kong) Limited and HSBC Broking Forex (Asia) Limited (collectively, HSBC Broking), from re-entering the industry for life. The disciplinary action follows an SFC investigation which…

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December 29, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

ISBA reports increase to share repurchase program

Jae A. Evans, Chief Executive Officer of Isabella Bank Corporation (OTCQX:ISBA), just announced that the Board of Directors at its December 21, 2016 Board meeting approved a resolution to increase its share repurchase program by an additional 200,000 shares, raising the aggregate authorization under the program to 209,557 shares. The Corporation has repurchased to date…

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December 29, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

New York State DFS issues updated proposed cybersecurity regulation protecting consumers and financial institutions

Financial Services Superintendent Maria T. Vullo announced that the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) has updated its proposed first-in-the-nation cybersecurity regulation to protect New York State from the ever-growing threat of cyber-attacks. The proposed regulation, which will be effective March 1, 2017, will require banks, insurance companies, and other financial services institutions…

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December 29, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Businessman settles charges of fraudulent EB-5 offering

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that a Florida-based businessman has agreed to settle charges that he misused investor funds intended to create U.S. jobs through the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program. The SEC alleges that Jason Adam Ogden, the CEO of a pair of smoothie and frozen yogurt franchises called Juiceblendz and Yoblendz, formed…

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December 28, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nomu - Parallel Market to be launched in Saudi Arabia in February 2017

The Saudi stock Exchange Tadawul announced plans to launch Nomu - Parallel Market on February 26, 2017, following the Capital Market Authority’s (CMA) announcement of issuing the Parallel Market Listing Rules published last Thursday. Launching Nomu - Parallel Market is a step towards fulfilling Tadawul’s plans to further develop the capital market. It is also…

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December 28, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Admiral Markets begins publishing execution statistics

Europe based brokerage Admiral Markets just announced that are introducing their new Order execution quality page which will help traders find key information about the benefits of Admiral Markets in terms of execution quality, supported by the statistics on all executed market orders for the previous calendar year. This is the first time Admiral Markets…

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December 28, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Blackwell Global expands Hong Kong broker license to securities and futures

International forex and CFDs brokerage Blackwell Global announced today the acquisition of 2 new licences issued by the Security and Futures Commission (SFC; Securities Licence No. BGX296 and Futures Licence No. BGX460.) in Hong Kong, permitting the brokerage to offer securities and futures contracts to both Hong Kong and international investors. Following the licence approvals,…

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