Category: Financial Services

CME Group
June 03, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group reports 17.9 million contracts for May

The company’s monthly metrics highlights from May include Interest Rate ADV of 8.2 million contracts. Equity Index ADV registered 5.2 million contracts, up by 23% YoY. Micro E-mini Equity futures traded 252 million contracts, across all four indices, since their May 2019 launch and E-mini Russell 2000 futures ADV grew 39%. Options ADV were 2.5…

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June 02, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

SIX adds HANetf as ETF issuer and launches first medical cannabis ETF

Through the new ETFs at SIX, HANetf provides investors with exposure to five equity-themed products, while investing in companies with a promising growth profile. The new ETFs range from e-commerce, cloud technologies, medical cannabis and wellness. The underlying indices reflect stocks targetting long-term, social and technological megatrends. RBC Europe provides liquidity for the 5 ETFs…

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Deutsche Börse
June 02, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Deutsche Börse reports 7.5% MoM decline in trading volumes

Divided by class of asset, equities generated around €139.9 billion. Trading ETFs/ETCs/ETNs earned €18 billion. The trading volume in bonds was €0.4 billion, in certificates €1.4 billion and in funds €0.2 billion. SAP SE achieved the highest volume from the DAX stock on Xetra in May with €7.2 billion. TeamViewer AG led the MDAX equities…

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FCA bans sale of crypto-derivatives to retail consumers
June 02, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FCA bans Cypriot firms Hoch Capital, Magnum FX, Rodeler and F1 Markets from offering CFDs in the UK

FCA’s actions came as a response to insufficient information to the nature of the investments, some of the investors were pressured into making increasingly large investments in CFDs, which referenced bitcoin, foreign exchange, shares and indices. In some cases, investors were even encouraged to take out credit to make the payments. The firms also failed…

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CySEC fines
June 01, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CySEC fines Indication Investments Ltd for €160,000

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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asic afs license
June 01, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ASIC cancels the AFS licences of Personal Risk Management and Australian Golden Securities

ASIC also cancelled the AFS licence of Melbourne-based financial services provider and responsible entity Australian Golden Securities Ltd (formerly AFS Capital Securities Ltd) effective 21 May 2020. The Australian watchdog discovered that Australian Golden Securities did not lodge its financial and audit reports and failed to address its short comings in maintaining adequate competence and…

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moex moscow exchange
June 01, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

MOEX appoints Andrey Burilov as Chief Information Officer

Yury Denisov, Chief Executive Officer of Moscow Exchange, said: Reliable and advanced IT infrastructure is the cornerstone of our future success. We are pleased to welcome a high-caliber professional to our team with great expertise in software development, building complex IT systems and leading large IT teams, as well as deep knowledge of capital markets…

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