Category: Financial Services

FCA warning
December 06, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Blooming Finance firm

UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company Blooming Finance. Blooming Finance is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated activities which…

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clone firm FCA warning
December 06, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against FC COIN clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm FC COIN. 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 to…

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fca warning
December 06, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against City Global Trading firm

UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company City Global Trading. City Global Trading is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…

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fca warning clone firm
December 06, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Easy FX Trade clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Easy FX Trade. 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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fca warning
December 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against TradeBNP firm

UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company TradeBNP. TradeBNP is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated activities which require authorisation:…

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moex moscow exchange
December 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

MOEX releases steady results in November's FX Market turnover

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has announced its financial results for November. Total trading volume across Moscow Exchange’s markets was RUB 69.7 trln. The Exchange has been quite busy lately, expanding analytics offering for algorithmic and HFT firms. MOEX also launched trading in futures contracts on non-ferrous metals such as aluminum, nickel, zinc and copper, as well…

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asic afs license
December 05, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC cancels Solar Financial Advisory’s AFS license

The Australian regulator (ASIC) has cancelled the AFS license of Financial Advisory Pty Ltd (Solar) company. More details can be seen in the official announcement below: The Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) license of Sydney-based Solar Financial Advisory Pty Ltd (Solar), effective from 21 November 2018. The…

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fca fine
December 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA fines a former CEO of Sonali Bank £76,400

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has just announced that it has fined Mohammad Ataur Rahman Prodhan, the former Chief Executive Officer of Sonali Bank (UK) Limited (SBUK), £76,400 for being knowingly concerned in a breach by SBUK of its obligations to maintain effective anti-money laundering (AML) systems. This is not the first time the regulator takes action…

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Japan
December 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Japanese Yen added to MOEX FX offering

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has announced that it has added Japanese Yen/Russian Rouble (JPY/RUB) currency pair for trading, alongside US Dollar/Swiss Franc (USD/CHF), US Dollar/Chinese Yuan (USD/CNY), US Dollar/Kazakh Tenge (USD/KZT) and US Dollar/Turkish Lira (USD/TRY) currency pairs. JPY/RUB currency pair will be traded from 10:00-17:45 MSK with same day settlement. The rest of the pairs (USD/CHF, USD/CNY,…

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