Bursa Malaysia Berhad announced that it has registered a Profit After Tax and Minority Interest (PATAMI) of RM63.8 million for the first quarter ended 31 March 2018 (“1Q2018”), an increase of 12.6% from RM56.6 million reported in the previous first quarter ended 31 March 2017 (1Q2017), and an increase of 15.4% compared to the preceding…
Read moreMoscow Exchange (MOEX) has just announced that it will launch a Light Sweet Crude Oil futures contract and futures-style options on the futures to facilitate investment in global commodity instruments by Russian participants and their clients. This will happen on 25 April 2018. Igor Marich, Managing Director of the Money and Derivatives Markets at Moscow…
Read moreThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that the entity formerly known as Yahoo! Inc. has agreed to pay a $35 million penalty to settle charges that it misled investors by failing to disclose one of the world’s largest data breaches in which hackers stole personal data relating to hundreds of millions of…
Read moreThe Extraordinary General Meeting of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (GPW) has appointed Marek Dietl as President of the Exchange Management Board for a new term of office On 23 April, the Extraordinary General Meeting passed a resolution under the agenda item concerning changes to the Management Board, tabled by request of the State Treasury which…
Read moreFollowing the implementation of MiFID II in January 2018, a new survey reveals that UK fund managers believe the more stringent financial regulations are having a detrimental impact on small and mid-size quoted companies, both in terms of their research coverage and liquidity in their shares. According to the survey of 100 UK-based fund managers,…
Read moreAndrew Bailey, Chief Executive of the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today given a speech at the City Week ‘The International Financial Services Forum’, Guildhall, London, regarding Brexit, UK and EU authorities, and more. Highlights of it include: Now is the time for the UK and EU authorities to come together and work on…
Read moreThe Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with RecyclePoints Limited for the collection and recycling of waste materials generated at The Exchange’s offices. This initiative is also a demonstration of the Exchange’s effort to ‘End Plastic Pollution’, which is the theme of this year’s Earth Day,…
Read moreThe Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced that it has reprimanded CN Capital Management Limited (CN Capital) and fined it $1,000,000 for failing to maintain an effective compliance function and satisfactory internal controls concerning employee account dealing. The SFC has also reprimanded its responsible officers, Mr George Chan Yee Lee and Mr Stephen…
Read moreThe UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Reyker Securities. 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…
Read moreUK 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 Capzone Invest Ltd t/a HQ Broker. Capzone Invest Ltd t/a HQ Broker is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK…
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