The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of several unregulated firms. The names of the latest additions to the regulator’s warning list are Star Finance and Ouroneclub. According to the regulator, the fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics to scam people in the UK:…
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Fintech is exploding in Hong Kong and the entire APAC region. The latest winner in terms of funding goals is the Hong Kong-based fintech company WeLab that just raised $156 million during its Series C funding round. Some of the investors included the China Construction Bank and Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund. The Founder and CEO…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) recently conducted a peer review of compliance by the national oversight authorities of thirty member states with new rules regarding suspicious transaction detection and reporting. These rules have been in force since 2017. Eight member organizations were rated as “Partially Compliant”, its lowest category. CySEC, which has spent…
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Australian regulator ASIC has announced earlier today that it has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of Sydney-based financial services provider KP International Group Australia Pty Ltd, effective 22 November 2019. This is not the first time ASIC suspends the company's licence, it was previously suspended until 23 September 2020. KP International Group Australia…
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The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is suddenly reporting that foreign exchange volume and open interest are hitting records never before seen. Volatility in our forex markets have been in gradual decline for years, due in part to the constraints that global central banks have instituted regarding monetary and interest rate policies. CME executives have tried…
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Saxo Bank has just announced that it has teamed up with Geely Sweden Holdings AB, a subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co. Ltd, to establish a technological joint venture (JV). The two companies will now provide financial and regulatory technology solutions to financial institutions such as banks and fintechs in China. The ownership structure…
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The Sydney Stock Exchange (SSX), Australia’s alternative tier-one listing venue, has today announced its new CEO, Michael Go. The exchange has also accepted its first listing applications from Australian cleantech energy company AGEO Resources and Australian medical technology company ANNSCA Medical. Michael Go joins the SSX from an international career in finance. He said the…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of several unregulated firms. The names of the latest additions to the regulator’s warning list are ash.trades, Easy Money Finance, Miyamoto, Asuka and Associates, The Financial Consultancy Group (Scam), Best Returns, Cash FX Group. According to the regulator, the fraudsters are using or giving out…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) has announced its foreign exchange (FX) futures reached a new single-day volume record of 2.7 million contracts on December 11, 2019. Previous record of 2.5 million contracts was set on June 14, 2017. Open interest (OI) for CME Group FX futures also reached a record 2.3 million contracts on December…
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Securities Clearing Corporation of the Philippines (SCCP), a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc. (PSE), has just announced that it has selected LSEG Technology’s Millennium Post Trade solution to improve its post trade processes. LSEG Technology will now be able to implement Millennium Clearing and Millennium Risk products, enhancing SCCP’s clearing, settlement, risk…
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