The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced that it has reprimanded and fined EFG Bank AG (EFG Bank) $2 million for dealing in futures contracts without the required registration. The SFC found that between 1 April 2003 and 22 November 2016, EFG Bank executed 139 transactions in offshore listed index options for 11 clients without…
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The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has just informed that, at its meeting held on 13 November 2017, decided to impose an administrative fine of €10.000 to Mr. Pavel Krymov. Mr. Krymov is a shareholder of Skopelino Finance Ltd at the time (now Concorde Investments Ltd). His fine is due to…
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) informed that it has licensed the first crowd-sourced funding (CSF) intermediaries under the new CSF regime. Seven companies have been issued with Australian Financial Services (AFS) license authorisations to act as intermediaries able to provide a crowd-sourced funding service. With the grant of these new authorisations eligible public…
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First ETF with access to Bulgarian stock market launched on Xetra More news from the Bulgarian market today, as the first exchange traded fund (ETF) issued by Expat Asset Management has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Wednesday. The Expat Bulgaria SOFIX UCITS ETF tracks the performance of the Bulgarian SOFIX Index, giving investors…
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Nasdaq Dubai informed that it will launch single stock futures on GFH Financial Group (GFH) starting 16th January 2018, to enable investors to take positions on movements in the share price of the Bahrain-based company. GFH is the first non-UAE company on which the exchange is offering futures. GFH has a secondary listing on Dubai…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced that it has decided to delay the publication of the data on the double volume cap (DVC) mechanism for January 2018. The current quality and completeness of the data does not allow for a sufficiently meaningful and comprehensive publication of double volume cap calculations, as required under…
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The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), which represents more than 200 market infrastructure providers including exchanges and CCPs, today published a position paper summarising the WFE’s current views on FinTech and the regulatory environment surrounding it. The purpose of the paper - entitled FinTech in the Market Infrastructure Space - is to support ongoing compliance…
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On January 8th, a high-level conference was held in Beijing between Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) and China Railway Corporation, where both parties entered into a strategic cooperation agreement. Wu Lijun, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Administrative Committee of SZSE, and Lu Dongfu, Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of…
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The Nova Scotia Securities Commission (NSSC) announced that it has issued a cease trade order against West Nova Agro Commodities Ltd. According to NSSC, the company, a Nova Scotia community economic development corporation, violated securities laws by failing to file continuous disclosure documents. The director of corporate finance ordered West Nova Agro Commodities Ltd. to…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today a first badge of position management controls under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). MiFID II requires Member States to ensure that an investment firm or a market operator operating a trading venue which trades commodity derivatives apply position management controls. Investment firms or…
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