Category: Financial Services

Canadian regulator BCSC warns against Highgoldminings.com, Crypto Hallmark Investment and others
August 07, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Canadian regulator BCSC warns against GiroFX, TorexFX and others

Grand Trade Options (GTO) is allegedly located in Washington, DC and offers an automated platform for forex and cryptocurrency trading. It operates through website www.grandtradeoptions.com but it is not registered to trade in BC. CryptoBravos claims to be based in Chicago. The company offers an online cryptocurrency trading platform to trade and mine in cryptocurrency and operates through…

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Options expands into Singapore Exchange
August 06, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Options expands in Singapore with SGX

Options’ Managing Director for APAC Jun Ashida, said: As a managed colocation and private cloud service provider, our offering gives clients a fully compliant institutional infrastructure, integrated with industry-leading technologies. This allows us to connect clients to both Asian and Global financial hubs for a seamless trading experience. We have worked closely with MAS (The…

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Cboe Global Markets
August 06, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Cboe Futures ADV volumes down 22% MoM for July

Cboe’s July highlights include: Each of Cboe Global Markets’ four options exchanges posted gains in ADV from July 2019: Cboe Options up 12%, C2 up 13%, Cboe BZX up 66% and Cboe EDGX up 136%. ADV at Cboe BZX, EDGA and EDGX Equities Exchanges was up from July 2019: Cboe BZX up 58%, Cboe EDGA…

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CFTC penalty
August 05, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

NYMEX and two former employees to pay $4 million for disclosing trading information

This is the first time the CFTC has charged and exchange with violations of these regulations and disclosure of material non-public information. Director of Enforcement James McDonald commented: Today’s settlement sends a strong message that the CFTC will work tirelessly to protect our market participants against unlawful disclosures of their confidential information to ensure that…

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CME Group
August 05, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group reports 13.6 million contracts for July and 20% drop MoM

Agricultural ADV for the company was 1.3 million contracts. Foreign Exchange ADV registered 755,000 contracts and Metals ADV 725,000 contracts. Additional highlights from July include: Equity Index ADV grew 82% from July 2019, including 16% Equity Index options ADV growth Micro E-mini Equity futures ADV of 2 million contracts E-mini Russell 2000 futures ADV grew…

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FCA warning
August 04, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Dominion Financial Assets, Assurix Asset Management and others added to FCA warning list

Dominion Financial Assets (clone of FCA authorised firm) Telephone: 00357-782-254-8295 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Assurix Asset Management (clone of EEA authorised firm) Address: 23 Berkeley Square, Mayfair, London W1J 6HE Telephone: 02038808930, 02045402621 Email: [email protected], [email protected] ​​​​​​​ Website: https://assurix-uk.com; https://application.assurix-uk.com UMARKETS Address: Beachmont Business Center, Suite 40, Kingstown, St Vincent & Grenadines Telephone: +44 208 077…

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