Category: Financial Services

clone firm FCA warning
June 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Landa Asset Management clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Landa Asset Management. 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…

Read more
June 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ESMA appoints new Chair to Investment Management Standing Committee

The Board of Supervisors of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has appointed Martin Moloney, Head of Markets Policy Division of the Central Bank of Ireland to serve as the chair of the Investment Management Standing Committee. The standing committees are expert groups drawn from ESMA staff and the national competent authorities for securities…

Read more
June 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bats welcomes NuShares funds to the Bats ETF Marketplace

Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company welcomed two Nuveen-sponsored ETFs to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The NuShares ESG International Developed Markets Equity ETF (Bats: NUDM) seeks to track the investment results of the TIAA ESG International Developed Markets Equity Index, which is comprised solely of listed equity securities issued by companies (and depositary…

Read more
June 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CBOE Holdings announces next stages of technology integration plan

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) today announced that C2 Options Exchange, one of the firm's derivatives markets, is planned to migrate to Bats technology on May 14, 2018. Beginning in November, C2 trading permit holders may begin basic connectivity testing, and in December, begin certification. Throughout the first quarter of 2018 and into the second…

Read more
fca warning
June 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Hamilton-Scott Holdings Limited 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 Hamilton-Scott Holdings Limited. Hamilton-Scott Holdings Limited is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…

Read more
fintech
June 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ESMA responds to Commission consultation on Fintech

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has sent today its response to the European Commission consultation paper on “Fintech: a more competitive and innovative financial sector”, welcoming the initiative to take a stock-take of the EU’s Fintech industry. ESMA sees Fintech as a positive evolution overall as long as business models aim at improving…

Read more
asic license cancelled
June 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC cancels AFS licence of Investment Advisers Alliance Pty Limited

ASIC announced that has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of Sydney based company Investment Advisers Alliance Pty Limited (AFS 237902) for failing to lodge its financial statements and auditor's reports for four consecutive years. ASIC Deputy Chairman Peter Kell said: The annual lodgement of financial statements and auditor's reports is an important part…

Read more
AFM imposes an order for incremental penalty payments on Miscanthus Green Power B.V.
June 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

AFM suspends trading in Pastor Participaciones Preferentes

The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) just announced that it has given an instruction to suspend trading in Pastor Participaciones Preferentes. Financial instrument: Bond ISIN code: XS0225590362 Reason for suspension: Other disorderly trading conditions Requested by operator of regulated market? No The instruction has been given on 7 june 2017 and is coming into force…

Read more
fca warning
June 07, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Ridge Capital Markets 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 Ridge Capital Markets. Ridge Capital Markets is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…

Read more