Category: Financial Services

FCA warning
October 16, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Aegon London, Infinity Loans and others added to FCA's warning list

Aegon London (Clone of an FCA authorised firm) Address: The Leadenhall Building, 122 Leadenhall St, Lime Street, London, EC3V 4AB Telephone: +442031908789 Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Website: www.aegonlondon.com, www.aegonlimited.com Infinity Loans / Chetwood Financial (clone of an FCA authorised firm) Email: [email protected] Website: www.infinityloans.uk Moneycorp life and wealth investment Management (Clone of EEA authorised firm)…

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Whistleblower
October 16, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Whistleblower receives $800K award from SEC

So far, the agency has awarded over $562 million to total of 107 individuals since the first award was issued in 2012. Payment of the awards is taken out of an investor protection fund set up by Congress. It is financed through monetary sanctions of security law violations paid to SEC. To be eligible for…

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ASIC, AFS licence
October 14, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Ballast Financial Management’s AFS licence cancelled

The suspension will last for 10 weeks and give Ballas enough time to put in place adequate compensation arrangements. This will also provide Ballast with an opportunity to identify and appoint an appropriately qualified and experienced responsible manager following the resignation of its previous responsible manager. ASIC may consider cancelling Ballast’s licence if the company…

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Eurex
October 14, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Eurex traded contracts up 73%MoM for September with 162.7 million

Eurex Repo posted 19.9% MoM rise in GC Pooling, however Repo markets dell by 1.3% MoM. At the EEX, electricity was up 22.7% MoM for September 2020, gas rose 10.3% and emissions trading increased by 95.8%. Sep-20 Aug-20 Change Financial derivatives: Traded contracts Eurex Exchange European equity index derivatives (million) 87.7 45.4 93.17% European interest…

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CFTC
October 12, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Black Diamond Forex LP, BDF Trading LP and Advanta FX operator to pay over $1.2 million penalty

The US watchdog found that between January 2017 and March 2018 Salerno and his Pennsylvania-based companies solicited individuals on websites such as LinkedIn and Indeed.com and their own websites to become forex traders. The defendants required prospective traders to pay risk deposits and falsely promised to match it with some multiple of company funds in…

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Canadian regulator BCSC warns against Highgoldminings.com, Crypto Hallmark Investment and others
October 09, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Canadian regulator BCSC warns against the Everest Coins Invest, FalconFxOption and others

Marketscap claims to be a cryptocurrency based trading platform located in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and offer several types of accounts with different rates of return. The company, however, is not registered to trade in, or advise on, securities or derivatives in BC. Penz Trades purports to be based in Amsterdam and offers investment plans in cryptocurrency…

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FCA warning
October 09, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Trade Center, UK Bonds Club and others added to FCA's warning list

Trade Center Telephone: +441833280002; +97142148125; +4915735997832 Email: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Website: https://www.tradecenter.fm/ UK Bonds Club Address: 2 Wandsworth Road Nine Elms London SW8 2FA Website: www.ukbondsclub.com UK Gilts Community Address: 30 Park St London SE1 9EQ Website: www.ukgiltscommunity.com Property Investor Expert Address: 8 Lombard Street London EC3V 9LJ Telephone: 0800 0487555 Email: info@ www.propertyinvestor.expert Website:…

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FCA warning
October 08, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Luxeeforex, Bluebird Options Limited and others added to FCA's warning list

Luxeeforex (Clone of Appointed Representative firm) Address: TradeEd Group Ltd, Beachmont Business Center, Suite 53 Kingstown, St Vincent & the Grenadines Email: [email protected] Website: www.luxeeforex.com Bluebird Options Limited (clone of FCA authorised firm) Address: Hinds Building, Kingstown, St. Vincent and Grenadines Telephone: Account Opening +19089890903; Office +19089890903; 24/5 Support +19089890903; Marketing +44 7451273925 Email: [email protected]…

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