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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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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