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 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
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
May saw strong demand for the Eurex suite of interest rate and equity derivatives. Overall, turnover rose 26% to 163 Million Euro at Europe’s largest derivatives exchange, which is part of Deutsche Börse Group. Market participants strongly relied on equity derivatives (+36%) to hedge their exposures on European markets, while turnover in Eurex‘s fixed income…
Read more
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
ASIC has applied to the Federal Court of Australia for the appointment of liquidators to 19 'special purpose vehicle' companies associated with the Macro Group, all of which have Desiree Veronica Macpherson as a director. These are: AGKM Green Pty Ltd; BA Sullivan Pty Ltd; Christians Holdings WA Pty Ltd; Ferrous Ferric Pty Ltd; Macpherson…
Read more
Deutsche Börse reviews index composition/ Changes to be effective as of 19 June 2017 Deutsche Börse just announced changes to its selection indices, which will become effective on 19 June 2017. The shares of Grand City Property Ltd. will be included in the SDAX index and will replace the shares of ZEAL Network SE. The…
Read more
ASIC announced that has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of Sydney-based Group Underwriters & Managers Pty Ltd (GUM) for failing to lodge financial statements and auditor reports. GUM's AFS license has been suspended since November 2016 for failing to meet its financial services licensee obligations for consecutive years. After not lodging the financial…
Read more
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 Pension 2 Cash. Pension 2 Cash is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
Read more
InfoReach believes they have gone the extra mile to provide for the needs of the future by preemptively meeting the increasing demands and expectations of modern trading applications. InfoReach, Inc., a global provider of high-performance electronic-trading technology for capital markets, announced support for nanosecond granularity in the accuracy of its products' timestamps. This new technology serves…
Read more