Category: Financial Services

CFTC penalty
September 30, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

CFTC orders Gain Capital to pay $300,000 for supervision violations

According to the regulator's order, from 2014 to 2016, the company failed to supervise accounts by not following its policy regarding trade move requests and having inadequate policies and procedures for reviewing customer accounts, introduced by Foremost Trading LLC and traded by the company’s principal, Mark Miller..  Gain also failed to ensure that its employees…

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ASIC
September 30, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC bans BGC Securities broker for 10 years

According to the regulator, Moore breached a contractual agreement between BGC and a referring broker by: charging unpermitted spreads on transactions entered on behalf of a number of accounts of clients referred to BGC by the referring broker; and trading at prices other than the agreed independent valuation on transactions entered on behalf of a…

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Toronto Stock Exchange adds cloud-based software provider Dye & Durham
September 29, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

TMX Group acquires AST Trust Company

TMX will acquire the company for $165 million in total consideration, which includes $30 million of cash for regulatory and non-regulatory purposes, subject to customary closing conditions and working capital adjustments. AST Investor Services Inc. (Canada) and AST Trust Company (Canada)'s portfolio of products and services include transfer agency services, equity plan solutions, corporate trust,…

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CySEC
September 29, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Depaho Limited settles charges with CySEC with €270K fine

Following CySEC investigation, the regulator discovered that the violations occurred between January 2018 and July 2019. CySEC revealed that that Depaho violated organisational requirement, as well as CIF authorization provisions, order execution requirements, principles and information of clients and had a conflict of interest. Read More: CySEC issues warnings for websites classicfx24trade, safeoptions24 and others…

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FCA warning
September 29, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Cryptenix, Invest Bonds UK and others added to FCA's warning list

Cryptenix Address: 238 Agias Fylaxeos street, 3082 Limassol Cyprus Telephone: +441613941524, +442038073108, +442080898580 Email: [email protected] Website: www.cryptenix.com Invest Bonds UK Address: 37th Floor One Canada Square Canary Wharf London E14 5AB Email: [email protected] Website: www.investbondsuk.com/ Compare Property Bonds UK Address: 24 Aston Court London E11 2AR Telephone: 0207 7581789 Email: info@ComparePropertyBondsUK Website: www.compareukpropertybonds.com/ ISA Advisor…

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AMF alerts list
September 29, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

AMF issues warning on websites gfoltd, glb-groupe and others

AMF added the following websites to its blacklist: www.gfoltd.com www.glb-groupe.com gb-patrimoine-paris.com www.patrimoine-partenaires.com www.nortia-groupe.com vinneo.fr corsaircpl.com www.pjp-epargne-whisky.com www.opp-capital.com/ www.sudfactoring.com/ one-parking.co.uk https://octogroupe.com https://alphani-ltd.com dma-finance.com www.gemicpl.com www.cap-de-france.com/index.html www.mage-champagne.com www.ml-capital.fr 24primeoption.com Read More: AMF issues warning on websites createcapitalinvest.com, sudfactoring.com and others AMF issues warning on websites fortiscapitalmanagers.com, wavetomarkets.com and others French AMF warns against several companies

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Whistleblower
September 29, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Whistleblower receives $1.8 million award from SEC

Jane Norberg, Chief of the SEC’s Office of the Whistleblower said: Today’s award demonstrates the success of the program and the important role that company outsiders can play in halting ongoing violations. While many of our whistleblowers have been insiders, the agency also receives critical intelligence from company outsiders, like today’s whistleblower, whose swift reporting…

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Moscow Exchange
September 29, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

MOEX launches trading in HeadHunter ADSs

Yury Denisov, CEO of Moscow Exchange, commented: Headhunter is one of the most popular and useful resources for both employers and job-seekers. Now, millions of platform users can buy shares in this leading recruitment agency using Moscow Exchange’s infrastructure. We are pleased that new-economy companies are listing on Moscow Exchange. This helps to attract new…

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