According to ASIC regulation NXXT Trade is not a transaction permitted for an on-market buy-back. The MDP considered that Credit Suisse had failed to act in accordance with its clients’ instructions to conduct an on-market buy-back when it had entered the NXXT trades. The MDP alleges that Credit Suisse was careless as it did not…
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The companies with monetary penalties include: Harvest Capital Management Public Ltd with administrative fine of €13,000 Cyprus Trading Corporation Plc with administrative fine of €12,500 Aias Investment Public Ltd was fined the amount of €12,500 Regallia Holdings & Investments Public Ltd was fined €6,500 Isxis Investment Public Ltd was fined €6,500 Elma Holdings Public Company…
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The CFTC found that Cunningham Commodities’ did not supervise the GIB accounts over a sixteen-month period diligently. Moreover, the company entered into the guarantee with the GIB despite knowing that the GIB offered a “trading program” to customers when it was not registered as a commodity trading advisor and that the majority of customers lost…
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Australian company Allianz Metro Pty Ltd, together with Eustace Senese and Yoav Ida provided One Tech Media with services without AFS licence and also breached the Corporations Act. Senese and Ida also failed to issue the requisite PDS for each binary option trade conducted. The court found that One Tech Media’s conduct was “systemic and…
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The regulator alleged that Gain UK failed to supervise diligently its US forex customers and missed warning signs of the underlying fraudulent conduct by an unregistered CTA. The company had extensive communication about creating an account with the company with an unregistered CTA with knowledge that the CTA had been rejected from managing accounts with…
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The exclusion of the aged fee receivables would have resulted in monthly liquid capital deficits ranging from $335,000 to $449,000 for Potomac from February to May 2017. The SFC found that Potomac had incorrectly included the fees receivables in its liquid capital for more than three years. However, the company has rectified the FRR breach.…
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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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