Category: Financial Services

clone firm FCA warning
December 29, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Vanguard Asset Management clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Vanguard Asset Management. 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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SFC fines
December 29, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Citigroup Global Markets Inc. fined $11.5 million for displaying inaccurate research ratings

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced it has fined Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (CGMI) $5.5 million and required the firm to pay at least $6 million in compensation to retail customers for displaying inaccurate research ratings for numerous equity securities during a nearly five-year period, and for related supervisory violations. An equity research rating…

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Regulation
December 29, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

France's AMF consults on amendments to its General Regulation with regard to central securities depositories

Taking into account the European Regulation on central securities depositories, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) announced that it is launching a public consultation until 28 February 2018 on amendments to Book V of its General Regulation, on market infrastructures. Adopted in July 2014, the European Regulation on improving securities settlement in the European Union…

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NSD and Interfax launch Single Disclosure Window product
December 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

National Settlement Depository begins assigning Financial Instrument Short Names

National Settlement Depository (NSD), acting in compliance with ISO 18774, announced that it has started assigning FISNs (Financial Instrument Short Names) to securities and related financial instruments. ISO 18774 is an international standard which establishes a universal approach to reflecting the short descriptions of financial instruments based on unified rules and format. FISN is one…

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Cboe ETF Marketplace Cboe Global Markets Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE)
December 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe welcomes new issuer AlphaClone to ETF Marketplace

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) announced that two AlphaClone funds successfully transferred to the Cboe ETF Marketplace from NYSE Arca today. The AlphaClone Alternative Alpha ETF (Cboe: ALFA) seeks to track the price and yield, before fees and expenses, of the AlphaClone Hedge Fund Downside Hedged Index. The AlphaClone International ETF (Cboe: ALFI) seeks…

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December 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FINRA fines J.P. Morgan Securities LLC $2.8 million for supervisory failures

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced today that it has fined J.P. Morgan Securities $2.8 million for violating the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Customer Protection Rule and for related supervisory failures. The SEC rule creates requirements to protect customers' funds and securities. To ensure that customers could recover their assets in the event…

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Spanish Stock Market BME Bolsa de Madrid
December 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Spanish regulator CNMV approves BME as APA and ARM

BME Regulatory Services announced today that it has received authorisation from the Spanish securities market regulator, Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV), to provide Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) and Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) services in compliance with MiFID II and MiFIR requirements, which will come into force on 3rd January 2018. As an APA,…

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Hong Kong SFC
December 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Court allows SFC’s appeal in illegal short selling case

The Court of First Instance informed that it has allowed the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission’s (SFC) appeal against the acquittal of Mr Wong Hung of illegal short selling and ordered that the case be remitted back to the Magistrates’ Court for a re-trial. In May 2014, the Eastern Magistrates’ Court acquitted Wong on…

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