Category: Financial Services

ASIC office
September 28, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC provides guidance for initial coin offerings

ASIC has released guidance to help issuers of initial coin offerings (ICOs) consider their legal obligations when offering coins or tokens. ASIC Commissioner John Price said: We want to ensure innovative firms understand the regulatory framework they may be operating under and ensure they meet any obligations they may have when raising funds in Australia.…

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September 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

HKEX announces plans for Iron Ore Futures

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) announced that has plans to introduce cash-settled TSI Iron Ore Fines 62 per cent Fe CFR China Futures (Iron Ore Futures), with rollout tentatively set for November of this year, subject to market readiness. HKEX's Iron Ore Futures contract will be its first ferrous metal product and will…

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clone firm FCA warning
September 27, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Pascal Grande Capital Partners clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Pascal Grande Capital Partners. 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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fma warning
September 26, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

French AMF warns against a number of unlicensed FX brokers

The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR) have just published g a list of new websites and entities offering investments on the unregulated foreign exchange (Forex) market in France, without authorisation to do so. Here is the list of new websites recently identified: www.1875-financeinvest.com / 1875…

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