Category: Financial Services

Acquisition
January 05, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Redline Trading Solutions acquired by Pico

With steady investments in the software solutions provider, Redline’s service offering will be become fully and globally comprehensive. This will allow the company to deliver real-time and historical normalized financial market data including consolidated, delayed or end-of-day formats through wire protocol or API, available in available in Pico’s financial cloud. Pico’s clients will be able…

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December 30, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

24option.com operator hit with a €15K fine by Dutch AFM

The administrative five was also imposed on Rodeler Ltd as the AFM found the firm directed Rodeler NL in the violation. The AFM highlighted that such violations can result in a fine of up to €2 million. However, in its decision to impose a €15,000 fine, AFM took into consideration the limited financial strength of…

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December 29, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

BaFin imposes a €8.6 million fine on Deutsche Bank AG

BaFin stated: It requires contributors to have in place effective systems and controls. Contributors are natural or legal persons who contribute data for determining benchmarks. In the European Union, the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (EURIBOR) is used as benchmark, for example. Breaches of the Benchmarks Regulation can result in a fine which can reach up…

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CFTC
December 29, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CFTC files charges in a multi-million-dollar forex fraud

Background According to the regulator’s complaint, from 2012 to 2018, WorldWideMarkets, along with TAB Networks who performed all of its business activities, participated in forex transactions with 14,000 retail customers. During this period, the companies operated out of New Jersey. However, the CFTC discovered that Plaut organized WorldWideMarkets in the British Virgin Islands in order…

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CFTC penalty
December 28, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Dubai traders ordered to pay $100K to settle charges brought by CFTC

Charges According to the financial markets watchdog, Bansal and Agarwal engaged in the fraudulent activities for accounts held by Aralia and Vintage. Around 14 April 2020, Bansal led Agarwal to enter orders for Vintage to sell 250 gold futures contracts traded on COMEX at a specific time. Agarwal entered those orders and Bansal entered off-setting…

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CySEC
December 23, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CySEC withdraws AFX Capital’s CIF licence

Furthermore, Manuela Mazzacco, who is a member of the Board of Directors received a €100,000 fine and a 5 year ban from exercising management functions in any CIFs. Andreas Lianos, who is also on the board, got a €50,000 fine and a 3 year ban. The other board members, including Costas Georgiades, Elena Economides Demetriou…

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Acquisition
December 23, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Kraken acquires infrastructure platform Staked

The announcement further detailed that through the deal, Kraken’s clients will have more options on how they choose to manage their funds when staking with Kraken. Tim Ogilvie, CEO of Staked said: Kraken’s acquisition of Staked represents an exciting new chapter for us. Kraken clearly shares our commitment to supporting proof-of-stake networks, having a security-first…

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