Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) just released its quarterly results for the three months ended March 31 2017. The highlights are: Revenue and other income for Q14 2017 was 11% higher than Q1 2016, which was attributable to: - Increases in core revenue including Stock Exchange listing fees and depository, custody and nominee…
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Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…
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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded and fined Promising Securities Company Limited $3.5 million for breach of the Code of Conduct and the Management, Supervision and Internal Controls Guidelines. The SFC’s disciplinary action arose from a self-report by Promising in 2014 that a settlement staff had misappropriated client assets following an…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced that is aware that emails have been sent from the following addresses: fake emails sent from [email protected] with subject ‘FCA business update’ or ‘Blacklisted FX firms’ (9 May 2017) fake emails sent from [email protected] with subject ‘Overdue balance’ (9 May 2017) fake emails sent from [email protected] (21 March…
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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 ExxonFX. ExxonFX is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated activities which require authorisation:…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a former employee with securities fraud in connection with his trading of options and other securities. The SEC’s complaint alleges that David R. Humphrey, who worked at the SEC from 1998 to 2014, concealed his personal trading from the SEC’s ethics office and later misrepresented his trading activities…
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Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…
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Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…
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The European Commodity Clearing (ECC) just announced that cooperates with KB TECH Ltd. to expand access to cleared commodity markets for trading participants. KB TECH is a UK based software development company providing data management services and products to the trading, pension and financial markets. KB TECH has launched a dedicated portal “KB Portal” which…
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