Canada’s Joint Serious Offences Team makes first arrest in fight against financial crime LeapRate

February 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Canada's Joint Serious Offences Team makes first arrest in fight against financial crime

The Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) and the Alberta RCMP announced that Neil Andrew McDonald of Calgary has been charged with alleged breaches of the Criminal Code following an investigation by the Joint Serious Offences Team (JSOT) in Alberta. McDonald has been criminally charged with seven counts of fraud over $5,000 contrary to section 380(1)(a), one…

February 22, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Regulatory reporting specialist Abide Financial applies for ARM and APA status ahead of MiFID II

Regulatory reporting services provider Abide Financial has announced that it has applied to become an Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) and Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) in order to provide enhanced MiFID II (Market in Financial Instruments Directive) services leading up to enhanced scope enforcement in January 2018. Abide Financial is a unit of NEX Group PLC (LON:NXG). NEX…

February 21, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC adds Ono Ventures to its alert list

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…

February 21, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ESAs warn on money laundering and terrorist financing risks affecting the EU financial sector

The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA - ESAs) published a Joint Opinion addressed to the European Commission on the risks of money laundering (ML) and terrorist financing (TF) affecting the European Union's financial sector. This Opinion will contribute to the European Commission's risk assessment work as well as that of the ESAs…

February 21, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority published its first Conduct Outcomes Report

New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority (FMA) published its first Conduct Outcomes Report 2016. It highlights the key issues and actions from the FMA’s enforcement, supervision and preventative activities for the financial year July 2015 to June 2016. Previously published as the Investigations and Enforcement Report, this report shows how the FMA has made use of…