Category: Financial Services

First Derivative opens new office inPoland
June 21, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

First Derivative announces a new office in Poland

David Collins, Managing Director, First Derivative, said: We have ambitious plans for Poland, and Łódź is the perfect location to expand our presence in engineering and strengthen our solutions Head of the Polish office To lead the new office, First Derivative has appointed Szymon Kaczmarczyk. Before he joined the company, he held a management role…

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ASIC ban
June 20, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CFD trader sent to prison in Australia for insider trading

Prior to the official announcement by PanAust of the takeover bid on 30 March 2015, Li acquired 390,000 PanAust CFDs during the period between 19 and 26 March 2015. He also made his wife acquire 265,000 PanAust CFDs between 22 and 26 March 2015. In sentencing, Judge Rinaudo said: [He] took an unfair advantage when…

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CySEC fine
June 20, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CySEC fines Maxigrid and issues bans on four directors

CySEC’s decision follows an investigation into Maxigrid’s non-compliance. The official announcement stated: Maxigrid's Board of Directors was found to have acted in violation of this article over its failure to define and take responsibility for the implementation of arrangements that ensure the effective and prudent management of the Company, in a way that promoted the…

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Ziglu teams up with ClearBank to expand banking offering
June 08, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Ziglu teams up with ClearBank to expand banking offering

With this partnership, Ziglu’s end-customers can take advantage of safeguarded accounts that the ClearBank’s platform gives them. ClearBank payments are cleared in-house and funds, held securely at the Bank of England, are not used for investment purposes. According to the official announcement, the two firms are currently exploring a future phase of the partnership to…

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Osaka Digital Exchange
June 06, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Osaka Digital Exchange set to start PTS operations on 27 June

The exchange was registered as Type 1 Financial Instruments Business Operator on 18 April and it is now accepted as a member of the Japan Securities Dealers Association, according to the official press release. The ODX shareholders include SBI PTS Holdings (70%), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (20%), Nomura Holdings (5%) and Daiwa Securities Group (5%).

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June 03, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group sees an 18% jump in ADV for May 2022

ME Group also saw record SOFR options ADV which reached 173,964 contracts, including a single-day trading volume record of 397,212 contracts registered on 25 May and record open interest (OI) accounted for 4,102,865 contracts on 31 May. The company said: 8 trading days when SOFR futures daily volume surpassed Eurodollar futures, with SOFR futures ADV…

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