UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued two more warnings this week, this time against several unregulated financial services providers targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warnings are against the companies: Sterling Lloyd Limited (ex EFEX Capital) Address: 11 Lucas Avenue, London, United Kingdom, E13 0QP & 40 Bank Street, 30th Floor Canary…
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Australian regulator ASIC announced earlier today that it has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of the company Platinum Perpetual Global Private Wealth Pty Ltd, based in Perth (AFSL 508415). The AFS licence was cancelled at the request of the company, following a separate action brought by Western Australian Police Force (WAPF), which has…
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Deutsche Börse’s cash markets just announced their turnover for the month of August. The cash markets generated a rise in turnover by 4% MoM to €130.2 billion last month (€130.0 billion in 2018 and €124.8 billion in July 2019). €117.4 billion were attributable to Xetra (€117.9 billion in 2018), the average daily Xetra trading volume…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Sector Capital Funds Plc. 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…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) announced that they will launch Indian Rupee (INR) Currency Futures in Q4 2019. The exchange plans to introduce two new futures contracts: the INR vs US Dollar (INR/USD) Futures; and the INR vs Renminbi traded in Hong Kong (INR/CNH) Futures. The INR/CNH Futures contract will be the first…
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FinTech company AlgoTrader announced that they have entered a strategic partnership with Avaloq aiming to change the way banking and wealth management clients behave and how financial services will do business in the future. The two companies are creating a global digital asset management ecosystem to enable banks and other financial intermediaries to be prepared…
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Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has released its trading volumes report for the month of August 2019. You can see the highlights below: Interest Rate Futures contracts The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 55,246 ( - 26.8% MoM / - 27.5% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 2,631. 項目 August 2019…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that they have awarded more than $1.8 million to a whistleblower. The whisteblower alerted SEC about a misconduct committed overseas and provided extensive and ongoing cooperation during the course of the investigation, including the review of documents. The whistleblower in this matter provided stellar information and ongoing assistance…
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The Cyprus regulator CySEC has made a new announcement yesterday regarding the withdrawal of KIT Finance Brokers Ltd's CIF authorisation. KIT Finance Brokers Ltd's CIF authorisation number is 365-18 and, according to the regulator, the company has decided to expressly renounce it earlier this week. This announcement has been officially made on 28 August 2019…
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The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has recently added two more names to its list of unregulated firms. The latest additions are the company Yifu International Futures Co Ltd and the website www.rncapitalalliance.com. According to the regulator, Yifu International Futures is not registered on the New Zealand Financial Service Providers (FSPR) register nor is it associated…
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