ASIC urged the public to be wary of cold callers claiming that their investment proceeds have been stopped by ASIC and are being held for them in a trust. These calls are being made by individuals based overseas and are scams. ASIC warns anyone who receives unexpected contact in this way or a similar manner…
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Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) today announced that April 2017 average daily volume (ADV) reached 16.3 million contracts, up 18% from April 2016. Highlights for April 2017 include: FX volume was 788,000 contracts in April - down 19% from March 2017 (or 978,000 contracts), options volume averaged 4 million contracts per day, up 52% versus April…
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The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) announced that, on 30th January 2017, the Company Providing Administrative Services Vayronus Enterprises Ltd, waived its authorization pursuant to section 16(1) of the Law Regulating Companies Providing Administrative Services and Related Matters of 2012, as in force (the ‘Law’). Therefore, the Company’s authorization with Νumber 150/196, which was…
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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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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 Williams & Chase Associates. Williams & Chase Associates is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying…
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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 UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm BvB Advisory Limited. 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…
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Following an application by ASIC, the Supreme Court of NSW has made interim orders by consent against Courtenay House Capital Trading Group Pty Ltd (Courtenay House Trading Group), Courtenay House Pty Ltd (Courtenay House) and a number of other parties, including freezing their assets and restraining them from carrying on a financial services business. ASIC…
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Bats, a CBOE Holdings Inc.(NASDAQ: CBOE) company, welcomed Franklin Templeton Investments as a new issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace with a suite of three U.S. equity focused funds. The funds include: The Franklin LibertyQ U.S. Equity ETF (Bats: FLQL), which seeks to provide investment results that closely correspond, before fees and expenses, to the…
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The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX), the region’s largest and most diversified derivatives exchange, witnessed an eventful month of trading across its precious metals, base metals and currency segments in April. The recently listed DGCX Shanghai Gold Futures Contract (DSGC) has had a positive knock-on effect on the trading activity of the Exchange’s other…
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