The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced that it has banned Mr Joseph Hsu Kar Hing, a former responsible officer (RO) of Standard Chartered Securities (Hong Kong) Limited (SC), from re-entering the industry for three years from 6 July 2018 to 5 July 2021. Hsu was a sponsor principal in charge of the…
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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 2dots Limited t/a 8infx. 2dots Limited 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 informed the public that it has charged the former CEO of Energy XXI Ltd. with hiding more than $10 million in personal loans that he obtained from company vendors and a candidate for Energy XXI’s board. At the time of the alleged misconduct, Energy XXI was NASDAQ-listed and…
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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 Talbot Review Centre. Talbot Review Centre is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) has just announced that PepsiCo, Inc. (Nasdaq:PEP), will become a component of the NASDAQ-100 Index® (Nasdaq:NDX) and the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index (Nasdaq:NDXE) prior to market open on Monday, July 23, 2018. PepsiCo, Inc. will replace DISH Network Corporation (Nasdaq:DISH) in the indexes. PepsiCo, Inc. is headquartered in Purchase, New York, and has…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm My-PersonalLoan. 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 scam…
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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 Fieldbase Investments Limited. Fieldbase Investments Limited 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 informed that it has charged a stock promoter and four others involved in an alleged series of microcap fraud schemes that were foiled by FBI undercover work and an SEC trading suspension. According to the SEC’s complaint filed in federal court in southern California on July 6, stock…
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The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has just warned investors that HQBroker is not registered to sell securities in Ontario. HQBroker manages the website hqbroker.com, where it claims to offer a variety of trading solutions to retail and institutional investors through contracts for difference, derivatives and forex currency pairs. The Securities and Futures Commission of Hong…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Equiniti Financial Services. 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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