Category: Financial Services

ActivTrades
March 16, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ActivTrades launches new LATAM40 ETF

The new LATAM40 ETF offers access, exposure and tracking of 40 of the largest Latin American stocks a single fund. The company stated: The fund generally invests at a majority of its assets in the component securities of its underlying index and in investments that have economic characteristics identical to the component securities of its…

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FINRA
March 14, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Crown Capital Securities to pay $75K fine imposed by FINRA

FINRA stated: Between January 2017 and January 2021, Crown Capital paid approximately $19.3 million in commissions earned by 18 of its registered representatives to 18 unregistered entities. The unregistered entities were corporations and limited liability companies created by the registered representatives to serve as doing business as names for their securities businesses and were disclosed…

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Swiss Stock Exchange
March 09, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

SIX reports 83% fall in profits in 2021

Without the Worldline-related effects, SIX’s net profits in 2021 increased 37.3%. During the last year, the company launched its SIX Digital Exchange and also expanded its ESG indices and data offerings. The exchange also started introduced a new equity segment for SMEs under the brand Sparks. The exchange stated: While equity trading on the stock…

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March 08, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Russia to be excluded from all JPMorgan fixed income indexes

Additionally, local-currency denominated Russian bonds will be excluded from the GBI-EM indices. The bank also said that accrued interest for such bonds will be set to zero and suspended on 7 March. Moreover, Russia and Belarus will be excluded from the JESG EMBI, JESG GBI-EM, and JESG CEMBI indices. Index providers FTSE Russell and MSCI…

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Cboe Global Markets
March 04, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Cboe sees record volumes of 250.9 million contracts in February

In February, Global FX ADNV increased almost 15% on yearly basis. On 25 February MSCI EAFE Index (MXEA) options set a newly daily volume record with 6,793 contracts traded that day. The company said: Cboe BIDS Canada, Cboe's new Canadian equities block-trading offering, successfully launched on February 1 with strong buy-side demand. Cboe Periodic Auctions…

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Deutsche Börse
March 01, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Deutsche Börse turnover in February reaches €205.4 billion

Equities on Deutsche Börse generated €169.7 billion in February 2022 and trading in ETFs/ETCs/ETNs accounted for €33 billion of the turnover. Bonds accounted for €0.4 billion, in certificates €1.8 billion and in funds €0.3 billion. SAP SE was the DAX stock with the highest turnover on Xetra last month with €6.9 billion. Commerzbank AG led…

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February 28, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FCA slaps Barclays with a £783,800 fine

Barclays served as Premier FX’s sole banker in the UK. The bank failed to identify that Premier FX’s internal controls were deficient and because of that, failed its due diligence conduct. Mark Steward, Executive Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight, said: Premier FX, which handled money on behalf of other people, presented particularly high risks…

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finra
February 25, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FINRA fines Barclays $350K for market access controls failures

As result, Barclays the routed 19,500 orders for 2,500,000 contracts to the market unchecked. Of those 9,500 orders for 1,125,000 contracts were executed. Additionally, the firm did not prevent the entry of erroneous orders of a total of $11.8 million, rather than the intended $118,000. The company has accepted FINRA’s monetary penalty but has not…

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