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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TSX Company Services and Diligent today announced a collaboration to offer Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange issuers secure, effective tools to enable board members to work on materials in real-time from anywhere. Through this arrangement, issuers will benefit from preferred pricing for Diligent's best-in-class board management software. We are continuously looking at ways…
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today published two notices outlining amendments to support the transition from a three-day settlement cycle (T+3) for trades in Canada to two days (T+2) on September 5, 2017, consistent with the U.S. Canadian securities regulators are committed to facilitating a smooth transition to the T+2 settlement cycle and to ensuring…
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Sweden-based company active in the financial sector Catella (STO:CAT-B)’s Property Investment Management unit is launching Property Income 2017, an alternative investment fund that will invest in investment properties with stable cash flows and high dividend capacity. The fund’s AIF manager is Plain Capital Asset Management Sverige AB, and the fund’s depositary is SEB. The listing…
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The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today published its Report on the fact-finding exercise on retail futures brokers which aimed to understand the business profiles and major risk management controls and practices of 10 major local futures brokers (the Reporting Firms). This information assists the SFC in supervising licensed corporations and helps market participants understand…
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Moscow Exchange (MOEX) held its Annual General Meeting of Shareholders (AGM) on 27 April 2017. Shareholders approved the company's annual report for 2016, its FY 2016 financial statements and distribution of profit, including dividends for FY 2016. As recommended by the Supervisory Board, shareholders voted to pay a dividend for 2016 of RUB 17.5 bln,…
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Clearstream just announced that the ISAE 3402 report for the period 1 October 2015 to 30 September 2016 is now available to premium users of their website. The International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE) No. 3402, is produced by Clearstream's external auditors, KPMG, and is an assurance report on the description of Clearstream's controls, their design and…
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Former Managing Director Steven Robert Noske has been sentenced today to 18 months' imprisonment and fined $20,000 after being found guilty of insider trading by a West Australian Supreme Court jury. The Court ordered that Mr Noske be released after serving nine months' of his sentence on a recognisance of $10,000, subject to good behaviour…
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Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, today welcomed a new iShares fund to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The iShares MSCI Argentina and Global Exposure ETF (Bats: AGT) seeks to track the investment results of the MSCI All Argentina 25/50 Index (the Underlying Index), which is designed to measure the broad Argentina equity universe. The…
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ASIC has suspended the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of Australia Wealth Capital Group Pty Ltd (AFS licence 434007) until 3 October 2017, for failing to comply with a number of key obligations as a financial services licensee, including: establishing and maintaining compliance measures to ensure, as far as reasonably practical, that the licensee complies…
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