European derivatives exchange Eurex has released its volumes report for the month of December earlier this week. Clearing volumes continued their upward trend in the last month of 2019, recording triple digit growth in average daily cleared volumes. Significant increases in volumes were also seen at Eurex Repo and EEX. Despite YoY volumes of traded…
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Australian watchdog ASIC has announced yesterday that it has extended the suspension of the Australian financial services (AFS) licence held by Halifax Investment Services Pty Ltd until 8 January 2021, effective 18 December 2019. The Halifax AFS licence can continue only to ensure that clients of Halifax continue to have access to an external dispute resolution…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of several unregulated firms. The names of the latest additions to the regulator’s warning list are FXonspot, The Bond People, Bonds Finder, The Easy Loans, Secure UK Assets, Guy Berna, Omacl Loans Ltd, Shinhan Bank London, and DCDM Strategies. According to the regulator, the fraudsters…
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Exchange holding company Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE) has yesterday released its December monthly and full-year 2019 trading volume. Trading Records Set in 2019 Several trading records were set in 2019. ADV in total options trading at C2 Options Exchange (C2) reached a new all-time high in 2019 with more than 681,000 contracts, up…
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Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has released its trading volumes report for the month of December 2019. You can see the highlights below: FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) The total trading volume of FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) was 1,669,741 ( +15.0% MoM / -30.8% YoY ) and its average daily trading volume was…
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Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad (Bursa Malaysia Securities) has announced yesterday that it has publicly reprimanded Sunzen Biotech Berhad (SUNZEN) and 2 of its executive directors, for breaches of the Bursa Malaysia Securities ACE Market Listing Requirements (ACE LR). The company's 2 executive directors Datuk Hong Choon Hau and Lim Eng Chai were also fined RM50,000…
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Fintech company Integral has released today its December volumes. The company has reported average daily volumes (ADV) of $36.3 billion in the last month of 2019. This represents an increase of 6.8% compared to November 2019. Banks, brokers, and asset managers now share direct access to OCX and successfully use the company's Integral OCXTM platform…
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Deutsche Börse Commodities GmbH has announced that the gold holdings of the exchange-traded bearer bond Xetra-Gold (ISIN: DE000A0S9GB0) increased to 203.2 tonnes at the end of the year 2019. This is an increase of 21.7 tonnes over the course of the year. At the beginning of 2019, 181.5 tonnes of gold were stored in the…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of several unregulated firms. The names of the latest additions to the regulator’s warning list are Time4Actions, Pro Capital Markets, Investment Bridge, CF Sum, as well as clones of Novum Bank and Heartland Investment Management Limited. According to the regulator, the fraudsters are using or…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced yesterday that it has charged six individuals and their companies with participating in international microcap fraud schemes. The above-mentioned schemes generated more than $35 million of illegal sales of stock in at least 45 microcap companies. According to the regulator, Steve M. Bajic and Rajesh Taneja helped shareholders…
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