Category: Financial Services

Eurex enhances European ETF ecosystem with new product
November 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe welcomes new Aptus fund to ETF Marketplace

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) announced that it has welcomed a new Aptus fund to the Cboe ETF Marketplace. The Aptus Fortified Value ETF (Cboe: FTVA) seeks to track the performance, before fees and expenses, of the Aptus Fortified Value Index (“Index”). The Index is a rules-based, equal-weighted index that is designed to gain…

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DFSA
November 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Petroleum engineer settles charges of insider trading ahead of oil discovery announcement

A petroleum engineer who worked at Texas-based energy company Apache Corporation has agreed to settle the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges that he conducted insider trading ahead of a market-moving announcement about the company’s discovery of a significant new oil source. The SEC alleges that Christopher J. Lollar traded on nonpublic information while…

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etf
November 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe welcomes new FormulaFolios Funds to ETF Marketplace

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) today welcomed two more FormulaFolios funds to the Cboe ETF Marketplace. The FormulaFolios Tactical Growth ETF (Cboe: FFTG) seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing primarily in foreign and domestic growth-oriented equity securities of any market capitalization, domestic investment grade fixed income securities (bonds) of any maturity or…

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dgcx
November 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

DGCX volumes grow in currencies and stock futures in October

The month of October opened on a volatile note with geo-political tensions in Europe, the US, and Asia, which led investors and traders to increasingly turn to derivative instruments to hedge and mitigate the impact of volatility. The Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) witnessed increased trading volumes in its G6 currencies and Indian SSF…

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November 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

HKEX adds long-dated contract months for Futures and Options

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) announced today (Wednesday) that it will introduce long-dated contract months for its Hang Seng Index (HSI) and Hang Seng China Enterprises Index (HSCEI) Futures and increase the long-dated contract months for its HSI and HSCEI Options, with maturities up to 5.5 years, on Monday, 4 December 2017. HSI Futures,…

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Securities and Exchange Commission proposes Transaction Fee Pilot for NMS Stocks
November 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Millennium settles charges of illegal short selling in advance of stock offerings

Investment advisory firm Millennium Management LLC has agreed to pay more than $630,000 to settle charges that it shorted U.S. stocks in companies planning follow-on offerings and then illegally bought shares in the follow-on offerings, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) informed earlier. An SEC investigation found that Millennium violated an anti-manipulation provision of…

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clone firm FCA warning
November 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Get My Loans clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Get My Loans. 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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