CySEC also found that the company may have violated European Securities and Market Authority’s decisions regarding the provision of maximum leverage to retail clients, up to 1:30, at specified products and the margin close-out protection, a requirement to market, distribute or sell CFDs to retail clients. Indication Investments and CySEC reached a settlement regarding the…
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The SFC found that Convoy Asset Management failed to conduct proper and adequate due diligence on these bonds before making its recommendations. The company did not have effective system in place to ensure that its recommendations was suitable for and reasonable in all the circumstances and failed to maintain proper documentary records of the investment…
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The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has just announced that it has fined the company Enness Limited (Enness DIFC) USD 105,000 (approximately AED 386,000) for engaging in unauthorised activity outside the scope of its Representative Office DFSA Licence. As a Representative Office, Enness DIFC is only permitted to carry out a narrow set of activities…
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The UK regulator FCA announced earlier today that it has imposed a financial penalty in the sum of £91,000 to the company Hall and Hanley Limited (HHL). HHL is a claims management company (CMC) whose registered address was formerly 1st Floor, Building 4, Universal Square, Devonshire Street North, Manchester M12 6JH. With effect from 1…
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Cyprus regulator CySEC has yesterday announced that it has decided to impose a total fine of €10.000 to the company Solid Financial Services Limited. The company did not ensure that the details regarding derivative contracts concluded were reported to a trade repository. Solid Financial Services Limited has also provided a false statement regarding its reporting…
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UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced yesterday that it has fined Henderson Investment Funds Limited (HIFL) £1,867,900. The company failed to treat fairly more than 4,500 retail investors in two of its funds: Henderson Japan Enhanced Equity Fund and Henderson North American Enhanced Equity Fund (the Japan and North American Funds). Back in 2011,…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has informed the public yesterday that it has required Curtis Dalton of Middleton, Massachusetts to pay $200,000 for offering illegal off-exchange retail commodity transactions to U.S. and overseas customers while failing to be registered by the CFTC as required. Dalton offered transactions, which consisted of binary options in…
Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has yesterday informed the public that it has charged AR Capital LLC, its founder Nicholas S. Schorsch, and its former CFO Brian Block with wrongfully obtaining millions of dollars in connection with two separate mergers between real estate investment trusts (REITs) that were sponsored and externally managed by AR…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has yesterday informed the public that it has instituted two related enforcement actions against Nomura Securities International Inc. The Japanese financial holding company has agreed to repay approximately $25 million to customers for its failure to adequately supervise traders in mortgage-backed securities. Nomura bond traders made false and misleading…
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EU’s securities markets’ regulator ESMA has just informed the public that it has fined the trade repository Regis-TR S.A. €56,000 for negligently failing to provide to regulators direct and immediate access to details of derivative contracts. The European Markets and Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) requires TRs to provide derivative contracts information as well as other data…
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