Singapore Exchange (SGX) today announced that it has launched net total return and price return futures on the MSCI Emerging Markets (EM) and MSCI EM Asia indices, making it the first and only exchange in Asia to offer investors exposure to these fast-growing market segments. Asia is the dominant risk and investment factor to the…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) announced that it has welcomed eight new OppenheimerFunds ETFs to the Cboe ETF Marketplace. The new offerings include two dynamic multifactor ETFs which are designed to give investors increased exposure to the diversification benefits of combining multiple factors, the influence of the macroeconomic environment and overall market conditions into…
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On 10 November 2017 the Central Bank of the Russian Federation registered a revised methodology for the calculation of Moscow Exchange (MOEX)’s indices. The new methodology increases liquidity requirements for component stocks and allows for a variable number of stocks to be included in the indices. The changes are aimed at increasing interest in Moscow…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm iCash 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 to…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) informed that it has added 4 new Q&As to its Questions and Answers (Q&A) document on the implementation of investor protection topics under the Market in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II/ MiFIR). The new Q&As cover the topics of post-sale reporting, record keeping, and inducements. The…
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The Liquidators of the Connaught Fund have made the following comments on the announcement this morning that the FCA has arrived at the conclusion of its investigation on the conduct of CFM and that as a consequence of censure, a further sum of up to £66m is to be distributed to investors in the Fund.…
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The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) announced that, on 6th November 2017, the CIF Dragon Options Ltd (‘the Company’) has renounced its authorisation, pursuant to section 24(1)(b) of the Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law of 2007, as in force (the ‘Law’). Therefore, the CIF authorisation with Νumber 223/14 lapsed as from…
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The Department of Justice today announced that on November 9, the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) began its initial distribution of $772.5 million in funds forfeited to the U.S. Government in connection with the Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS) fraud scheme. These funds will be sent to 24,631 victims across the globe. This distribution…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE), one of the world’s largest exchange holding companies, today welcomed a new iShares fund to the Cboe ETF Marketplace. The iShares U.S. Dividend and Buyback ETF (Cboe: DIVB) seeks to track the investment results of the Morningstar® US Dividend and Buyback IndexSM (the “Underlying Index”). The Underlying Index is…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today announced that Capita Financial Managers Limited (CFM) has been publicly censured and will pay up to £66 million to those investors who suffered loss as a result of investing in the Guaranteed Low Risk Income Fund, Series 1 (or as it became later known, the Connaught Income Fund,…
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