Category: Financial Services

Eurex
September 08, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Eurex traded contracts for August fall almost 25% MoM to 45.4 million

Eurex Repo posted 46% MoM decline in GC Pooling, however Repo markets grew by 2.99% MoM. At the EEX, electricity went down 12.99% MoM for August 2020, gas dropped 9.9% and emissions trading fell 47.7%. Aug-20 Jul-20 Change Financial derivatives: Traded contracts Eurex Exchange European equity index derivatives (million) 45.4 60.3 -24.71% European interest rate…

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Whistleblower receives $9 million award from CFTC
September 07, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Whistleblower receives a reward from CFTC for exposing fraud

Whistleblower Office Director Christopher Ehrman added: The whistleblower’s tip helped stop fraudulent activity that harmed main street investors. Rewarding that kind of assistance is especially gratifying. So far, the US watchdog has awarded around $120 million to whistleblowers for their help since the first award was issued in 2014. The whistleblower awards are paid from…

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FCA warning
September 04, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ApcoFX, OBTFX and others added to FCA's warning list

ApcoFX Address: Kaiserleistraße 41, 63067 Offenbach am Main, Deutschland; 8 Lancelot Pl Knightsbridge, London SW7 1DR, UK Telephone: +44 7733074379 Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.apcofx.com MCManagement Address: Hardturmstrasse 181, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland Telephone: 02080894395, 07452390842, 07452390837 Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Website: https://www.mcmanagment.com/ Donaldson Finley Corporate Partners Address: 1140 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10006, USA…

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ASX
September 04, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ASX reports $4.9 billion total capital raised for August and 11% MoM rise

Equity Options Single stock options average daily contracts traded fell by 17% and index options average daily contracts traded were down 47% on the pcp.. Exchange-Traded Markets Participant margin balances held on balance sheet at month-end amounted to $13.1 billion, compared to $11.3 billion the previous year. Settlement The value of securities held in CHESS dropped 1%…

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Cboe Global Markets
September 04, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Cboe Futures ADV volumes up by 24% MoM for August

Cboe’s August highlights include: Each of Cboe Global Markets’ four options exchanges saw increase in ADV from July 2020: Cboe Options up 3%, Cboe C2 up 28%, Cboe BZX up 8% and Cboe EDGX up 9%. ADV at C2, BZX and EDGX Options Exchanges was up from August 2019: C2 up 28%, BZX up 27% and EDGX up 124%.…

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CySEC
September 03, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CySEC issues warnings for websites classicfx24trade, safeoptions24 and others

CySEC urges investors to consult its website, before conducting business with investment firms, in order to ascertain the entities which are licensed to provide investment services and/or investment activities. Read More: CySEC issues warnings for websites elite-fxmarket.com, bigliquidity.com and others CySEC fines Harvest Capital Management and others CySEC suspends Daweda Exchange’s CIF licence

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ASIC
September 03, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ASIC bans former BitConnect representative for seven years

The Australian watchdog found that Bigatton provided unlicensed financial product advice. His conduct was also misleading and deceiving in promotion of BitConnect and the BitConnect Lending Platform. The Commission stated that Bigatton is not fit to provide financial services or adequately trained. Read More: ASIC bans Brisbane finance broker and cancels the license of Global…

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