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 Crypto Options Trader. Crypto Options Trader is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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Solactive has announced the launch of the Solactive Asia Ex-Japan Technology & Internet Tigers Index. It is tracking the performance of the 50 largest technology and/or online retail stocks that have the majority of their business risk in Asia (excluding Japan). The constituents are weighted according to free float market capitalization. Online retailers are booming…
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Nasdaq Dubai has just informed the public that it has welcomed four new debt listings by the global trade enabler DP World, comprising a one billion US dollar Sukuk and three conventional bonds of one billion US dollars, 750 million euros, and 350 million sterling respectively. The four listings together amount to a value of…
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The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has published a list of new unauthorized websites offering atypical investments. Here is the list of new websites recently identified: www.achat-bitcoin.co www.acheterdubitcoin.com www.adg-placement.com www.bitnexx.tech www.buy-bitcoin-pagedemo.co www.cryptofrance.info www.cryptos-maker.com www.eminage.com www.goodcoin.fr www.infoscrypto.com www.investirvin.info www.lesgrandscrus.net www.netcoinplace.com www.patrimoine-vin.com www.prestige-vin.com www.rachatbitcoin.com www.sti-metal.com www.toutsurlebitcoin.com www.versatiscoin.com www.vino-capital.com www.vinsimo.com A list of all unauthorized websites to offer…
Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that the former CEO of Chilean-based chemical and mining company Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile, S.A. (SQM) has agreed to pay $125,000 to resolve charges that he violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). According to the SEC’s order, over the course of seven years, SQM’s…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Branison Partners. 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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Singapore Exchange (SGX) has informed the public that it has welcomed Vividthree Holdings Ltd. to its Catalist under the stock code “OMK”. Vividthree Holdings Ltd. is a virtual reality (VR), visual effects and computer-generated imagery studio. Specialising in immersive technology, the company develops as well as acquires intellectual property (IP) of digital assets and applies…
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Mr Gilman Edwin Wong, the former Chief Executive Officer and director of Sirtex Medical Limited, appeared yesterday at the Downing Central Local Court in Sydney charged with one count of insider trading under the Corporations Act, Australian regulator ASIC informed earlier today. ASIC alleges that Mr Wong was in possession of inside information, concerning Sirtex’s…
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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 Mayfield Pension Services. Mayfield Pension Services is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that SG Americas Securities LLC will pay more than $800,000 to settle charges of improper handling of “pre-released” American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), predominantly by its predecessor entity. In its order against SG Americas, a registered broker-dealer and subsidiary of Paris-based Société Générale S.A., the SEC found that…
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