Category: Financial Services

TFX volumes
July 01, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

TFX-Click 365 volume down 25% MoM in June

Last week Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has released its trading volumes report for the month of June 2019. You can see the highlights below: Interest Rate Futures contracts The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 91,825 ( + 120.5% MoM / + 14.3% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 4,591. 項目 June…

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fca warning
June 28, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

UK FCA warns against more unlicensed companies

Another busy week for the UK regulator… the FCA has put out details of more firms today. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…

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Eurex reports 192.1 million traded contracts in June
June 26, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Swiss Life added to Eurex as direct clearing member

Deutsche Börse Group announced on its website earlier today that Swiss Life Asset Managers has been added to Eurex Clearing as direct clearing member. Swiss Life Asset Managers is the first buy-side client using the central counterparty’s ISA Direct service for OTC Interest Rate Derivatives with ABN AMRO acting as clearing agent. ISA Direct supports both…

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asic afs license
June 26, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC cancels AFS licence of Guarded Pty Ltd and BBY Ltd

The Australian regulator ASIC announced today that it has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of Sydney-based Guarded Pty Ltd for failure to comply with financial services laws, effective from 27 May 2019. Guarded failed to maintain competence to provide the financial services authorised by its licence after its responsible manager, who had been…

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asic charges
June 25, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hacker jailed for insider trading

Australian regulator ASIC announced earlier today that IT consultant Steven Oakes has been sentenced to a total effective sentence of 3 years imprisonment. He will, however, be released after serving 18 months of the term of imprisonment, on his own recognisance to be of good behaviour for 18 months. The hacker was pleading guilty to…

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cssf warning
June 24, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Luxembourg regulator CSSF warns against S&P Broker

The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) has just warned the public of the activities of an entity named S&P Broker. S&P Broker is operating via the website https://snpbroker.io and claims to be established at 2 rue Edward Steichen, 2540 Luxembourg. According to the regulator, S&P Broker is unknown to it and that the…

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fca warning clone firm
June 20, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

UK FCA issues more clone firm warnings this week

Busy week for the UK regulator - FCA has put out details of more clone firms today. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…

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Argentex revenues
June 20, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Argentex reports a compound annual growth rate of 43% in FY19

The company is headed to LSE's AIM Market FCA regulated UK-based foreign exchange service provider Argentex (AIM: AGFX) announced its FY2019 revenue today as well as its intention to apply for admission of its entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital to trading on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange (“Admission”).…

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