The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Speed Finance UK. 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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CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) announced today that trading volume in options on the CBOE Volatility Index® (VIX®) reached a new all-time high on Monday, September 25. In VIX options at CBOE, a reported 2,612,952 contracts traded on Monday, surpassing the previous single-day record of 2,538,121 contracts on Thursday, August 10, 2017. Four of the…
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Last week LeapRate reported that SEC was being hacked despite warnings on security and its EDGAR system data may have been used for “illicit gain through trading”, as SEC Chairman Jay Clayton has issued in his statement. We’re pleased to present our recent conversation with Alex Heid, white hat hacker and Chief Research Officer at…
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The Supreme Court of Queensland in Brisbane announced that has appointed Mr Michael Hill and Mr William Harris, of McGrathNicol, as joint and several liquidators of Gognos Holdings Ltd (Gognos) and Dynamic Agri Tech Ltd (DAT) (companies). The court has ordered that the liquidators' appointment be stayed until 10 am on Friday, 29 September 2017,…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm National Debt Help. 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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The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has published a list of new websites offering diamond investments, for which no authorized investment services provider could be clearly identified. Here is the list of new websites recently identified: http://4cpatrimoine.com/ http://blue-diamond-invest.com/ http://boursediam.com/ https://www.diamond-expertise.com/ https://www.group-diamonds.com/ http://www.groupesaphir.net/ https://www.infinitediamond.com/ https://lacentraledudiamant.com/ http://www.luxydiamonds.com/ https://netfinancediams.com/ http://pearl-diamonds.com/ https://placedudiamant.com/ https://thebank-of-diamond.com/ https://www.valeur-diamant.com/ https://vendomeprestige.com/ The AMF has also…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Citibank, N.A. (CBNA) and Citigroup Global Markets Limited (CGML) - all units of global banking giant Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) - for failing to report Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) information for swap transactions properly to a Swap Data Repository (SDR), failing to…
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The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has just informed investors regarding the following decision by the Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission (FSC), concerning Interactive Company JSC (formerly Global Markets JSC), and the procedure which clients who are to make claims against it, should follow, not later than 30th September 2017: On 5th of July 2017…
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The U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has announced that it has fined the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC unit of global investment bank Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) $3.25 million and required the firm to pay approximately $9.78 million in restitution to more than 3,000 affected customers for failing to supervise its representatives’ short-term trades of…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Adexec Worldwide 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…
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