Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) Chair and CEO Maureen Jensen announced today the following appointments to the OSC. The Commissioners will each serve a two-year term effective February 2, 2017. Robert P. Hutchison spent more than 40 years with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, where he practiced business law, focusing on financial services. In addition to advising…
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SIX Swiss Exchange announced today approval of the London Stock Exchange’s TRADEcho service as a Trade Data Monitor (TDM) for the SIX Swiss Exchange. This agreement enables foreign participants (Remote Members) of the SIX Swiss Exchange to meet their reporting obligations for trades in Swiss securities admitted for trading on a Swiss regulated market via the…
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TMX Group Limited (TSX:X) today announced February 2017 trading statistics for its marketplaces – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange (Alpha), Montréal Exchange (MX) and NGX. MX achieved a new open interest record for Options on Three-Month Canadian Bankers' Acceptance Futures (OBX) of 315,410 contracts on February 17, 2017. To see the…
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A report published today by the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has found no substantial evidence showing that liquidity in the secondary corporate bond markets between 2004 and 2015 has deteriorated markedly from historic norms for non-crisis periods. The report, titled Examination of Liquidity of the Secondary Corporate Bond Markets, presents…
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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 Loan and Go. Loan and Go is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business, and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, today introduced the STOXX Climate Impact and STOXX Climate Awareness Indices. This next generation of low carbon indices incorporates the CDP climate change scoring methodology which evaluates companies based on their progress in the transition…
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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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Mr Stephen Burgin, an authorised representative of Interprac Financial Planning, closed his website steveburgin.com.au in response to concerns raised by ASIC. ASIC was concerned by images and references on the website which may have implied endorsements or approvals which were not actually held. This includes references to Mr Burgin as: A Senior ASIC Licensed Adviser;…
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The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) published a white paper and video to highlight key insights gained from RegHackTO, the first hackathon by a securities regulator in Canada. Held in November 2016, RegHackTO brought together more than 120 members of the Canadian fintech community who competed to find solutions to regulatory problems in four areas: RegTech,…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Tide U Over. 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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