Category: Financial Services

Euronext
September 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Euronext expands into new countries to support the growth of European Tech SMEs

Euronext, the pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, announced today the opening of new offices in five European cities outside its core markets – in Germany (Frankfurt, Munich), Italy (Milan), Spain (Madrid) and Switzerland (Zurich) – to assist Tech companies in developing their business on a greater scale through capital markets. The countries were selected for…

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FCA publishes its Quarterly KPIs, no clear trends indicative of firm responses to Brexit
September 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CySEC requests FX brokers submit CIF license passport application renewal requests under MiFID II by September 27

Cyprus financial regulator Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) just notified the changes introduced in relation to Passporting Issues and the provision of investment services and activities by third country firms under MiFID II. LeapRate already posted an article on the changes MiFID II will bring to those who passport financial licenses. The complete text…

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September 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

MiFID II: Eurex prepares for the home stretch

The clock is ticking: Only four more months until the biggest market reform of the last decade kicks off. The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (short: MiFID) II will fundamentally re-design Europe’s derivatives markets and provides strategic opportunities for Eurex, one of the leading derivatives exchanges and part of Group Deutsche Börse. Eurex is about…

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fca warning
September 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Standard Fidelity firm

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 firm Standard Fidelity. Standard Fidelity is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated activities which…

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Top listings of NYSE and Nasdaq tradable on the global market of the Vienna Stock Exchange
September 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

129 more German stocks now trading on the Vienna Stock Exchange

The Vienna Stock Exchange announced that has expanded its range of international securities by adding additional stocks from German indices. Apart from the 30 largest German stocks, which have been trading in Vienna for the past eleven weeks, 129 further stocks have now been added to the quotation list of the global market segment launched…

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clone firm FCA warning
September 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Quick Loans Ltd clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Quick Loans Ltd. 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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clone firm FCA warning
September 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Eduard Steinbach clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Eduard Steinbach. 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…

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Lingxi ,China Finance Online Co. Limited
September 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nadex relists US SmallCap 2000 contracts

On June 22, 2017, North American Derivatives Exchange, Inc. (Nadex) has submitted to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (the Commission) a self-certification submission providing notice that the underlying asset class for the Nadex US SmallCap 2000 Variable Payout and Binary contracts, namely the Russell 2000® Index Futures, would be moving from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)…

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Deutsche Börse volumes
September 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Turnover at Deutsche Börse’s cash markets at 116.2 billion euros in August

Trading volume increased by 25 percent year-on-year Order book turnover on Deutsche Börse cash markets totalled €116.2 billion in August (August 2016: €93.3 billion). Of the €116.2 billion, €105.9 billion were attributable to Xetra (August 2016: €84.7 billion) and €3.6 billion to Börse Frankfurt (August 2016: €3.3 billion). Order book turnover on Tradegate Exchange totalled…

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