Category: Financial Services

Cboe Global Markets
August 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe to launch U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index futures trading

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq:CBOE) has announced that Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE), plans to offer trading in Cboe® iBoxx® iShares® $ High Yield Corporate Bond Index (IBHY) futures beginning September 10, 2018, pending regulatory review. The $8.5 trillion U.S. corporate bond market includes robust cash and exchange-traded fund (ETF) markets, however, there is currently no…

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sfc bans
August 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC bans individual for a year

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has announced that it has banned Ms Fonia Kwok Lai Kwan from re-entering the industry for 12 months from 25 August 2018 to 24 August 2019 following her conviction for unlicensed asset management. The Eastern Magistrates’ Court found that between 2009 and 2015, Kwok, who was the…

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crypto scam protection interview
August 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Scammers nick $4.4M in 2018 from online bank access: ACCC

Scammers are increasingly catching out people by impersonating well-known businesses or the police so they can get access to computers and steal money or banking information. The ACCC’s Scamwatch website has recorded a significant spike in these types of scams, known as remote access scams, with more than 8000 reports recorded in 2018 so far…

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moex moscow exchange
August 24, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

MOEX releases higher trading volumes on all markets in Q2

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has just announced its financial results in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for Q2 2018. Higher trading volumes on all markets and a favorable change in the product mix helped achieve record high fee and commission (F&C) income. Unless stated otherwise, all figures below refer to performance in Q2 2018…

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clone firm FCA warning
August 23, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Base Finance clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Base Finance. 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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Osaka Exchange receives FBOT registration from CFTC
August 23, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Osaka Exchange receives FBOT registration from CFTC

Osaka Exchange, Inc. (OSE) has announced that on August 22, 2018, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order granting OSE registration as a Foreign Board of Trade (FBOT) under the U.S. Commodity Exchange Act. The registration permits OSE to provide trading participants located in the U.S. with direct access to OSE's trading…

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