Category: Financial Services

Monex Precious Metals fraud charges
September 06, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Monex Deposit Company charged with running multi-million dollar retail trader fraud scheme

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that on September 6, 2017, it filed a civil injunctive enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois against three affiliated companies located in Newport Beach, California: Monex Deposit Company, Monex Credit Company, and Newport Services Corporation (collectively, Monex), and Monex’s principals Louis Carabini and Michael Carabini.…

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Craig Carton WFAN investment scam
September 06, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

WFAN radio sports host Craig Carton charged with running concert ticket investment scam to pay off gambling debts

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a popular New York sports radio personality as well as another New York City man with stealing millions of dollars from investors who were allegedly promised that their funds would be used for the purchase and resale of concert tickets. In a complaint filed in federal district…

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Nasdaq Copenhagen Improves Small Cap Market Access For Non-Nordic Trading Members
September 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nasdaq launches new machine learning technology for surveillance efforts on Nordic Markets

Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) has announced it has successfully deployed machine learning technology across its entire Nasdaq Nordic markets—Stockholm, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Iceland—– to bolster its market surveillance efforts. Nasdaq’s SMARTS, in collaboration with the Nasdaq Nordic Market Surveillance team, has implemented machine learning within its surveillance technology to analyze abnormal market events and their subsequent categorization…

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September 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Eris Exchange receives U.S. patent for swap futures product design

Eris Exchange, a U.S.-based futures exchange group that offers swap futures as a capital-efficient alternative to traditional over-the-counter (OTC) interest rate swaps, today announced that it has received a patent on the principal component of its product design, the Eris Methodology, by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The patented invention enables a cash-settled futures…

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DFSA
September 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CFTC fines W Resources LLC $150,000 for registration violations

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that today entered an Order requiring Dallas, Texas-based W Resources, LLC (W Resources) to pay a $150,000 civil monetary penalty for acting as a Commodity Pool Operator (CPO) without registering with the CFTC and to cease and desist from further violating the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), as…

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clone firm FCA warning
September 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Instant Pound clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Instant Pound. 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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Deutsche Börse
September 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

METRO AG and Grand City Properties S.A. to be included in MDAX

Deutsche Börse reviews index composition/ Changes to be effective as of 18 September 2017 On Tuesday, Deutsche Börse announced changes to its selection indices, which will become effective on 18 September 2017. The shares of METRO AG and Grand City Properties S.A. will be included in the MDAX index, which tracks the 50 largest and…

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Moscow Exchange MOEX
September 05, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Moscow Exchange launches FX Ruble fixing instruments

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has announced that from September 4 it is offering instruments to trade at the MOEX FX USD/RUB and EUR/RUB fixing prices with clearing and settlement via its clearinghouse, NCC Clearing Bank. Russian banks including subsidiaries of large global financial groups posted total turnover of USD 6 million on the first day of…

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Hong Kong SFC
September 05, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC issues statement on initial coin offerings

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today issued a statement on existing regulations which could be applicable to initial coin offerings (ICOs). Today’s statement explains that depending on the facts and circumstances of an ICO, digital tokens that are offered or sold may be “securities” as defined in the Securities and Futures Ordinance, and accordingly…

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