Australian regulator ASIC announced earlier today that 58 Australian finance services (AFS) licensees have now had their authorisation revoked. The reason is that the companies were in breach of the law because they were also authorised representatives of other AFS licensees. According to section 916D of the Corporations Act 2001 (the Act), an AFS licensee…
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Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has just released its trading volumes report for the month of April 2019. Interest Rate Futures contracts The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 57,590 ( - 39.9% MoM / - 54.7% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 2,880. 項目 April 2019 Trading Volume Daily Average Change…
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Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has earlier this week released its volume report for the month of April. Total trading volume across Moscow Exchange’s markets was RUB 73.8 trln in April 2019. The growth leaders were bond (+24.3%), GCC repo (+22.2%), commodity derivatives (+18.4%) and CCP repo (+12.5%) markets. The complete report as shown on Moscow Exchange's…
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Traiana, a trade life-cycle and risk management solutions provider, just announced that it has provided direct central clearing connectivity to Eurex, part of Deutsche Börse Group. This connectivity agreement is well-timed for market participants keen to use our services to consolidate their OTC clearing processes and benefit from an increase in clearing activity at Eurex,"…
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The UK regulator FCA has issued several Decision Notices today in respect of three firms and five individuals. The companies names are Financial Page Ltd, Henderson Carter Associates Limited and Bank House Investment Management Limited and the individuals - Andrew Page, Thomas Ward, Aiden Henderson, Robert Ward and Tristan Freer. The FCA will take the…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) announced that more than 310,000 Micro E-mini futures contracts traded yesterday across all four indices - the S&P 500, Nasdaq-100, Russell 2000 and Dow Jones Industrial Average indexes. Total cumulative volume makes Micro E-minis the most successful new product launch in CME Group's history. We are pleased to see strong…
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Euronext announced earlier this week that it has extended its Oslo Børs VPS Holding ASA’s outstanding shares acquisition offer. The pan-European exchange will continue to receive and accept acceptances of the offer up to 31 May 2019. All other terms of its offer as revised remain unchanged. Back in December 2018 Euronext raised its commitment…
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UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued several warnings against unregulated financial services providers targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning includes the companies Sergo Capital, a trading style of Sergo Solutions Limited, Millennium FX, Tradospot OÜ, Prime Loan, and UK Investments. The FCA has once again strongly advised individuals to only deal…
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Deutsche Börse just released its cash markets volumes for April. The cash markets generated a turnover of €120.9 billion, down 7% MoM (compared to €127.2b in 2018 and €130.3 billion in March 2019). €107.8 billion of which were attributable to Xetra (€117.1b in 2018), bringing the average daily Xetra trading volume to €5.4b. Börse Frankfurt…
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Cyprus regulator CySEC has just announced that it has decided to impose a total administrative fine of €170.000 to CIF Goldenburg Group Ltd. The reason for the fine is noncompliance with provisions of The Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law of 2007, as was in force (‘the L.144(Ι)/2007’), and of Directive DI 144-2007-02…
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