UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company Talbot Review Centre. Talbot Review Centre is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) has just announced that PepsiCo, Inc. (Nasdaq:PEP), will become a component of the NASDAQ-100 Index® (Nasdaq:NDX) and the NASDAQ-100 Equal Weighted Index (Nasdaq:NDXE) prior to market open on Monday, July 23, 2018. PepsiCo, Inc. will replace DISH Network Corporation (Nasdaq:DISH) in the indexes. PepsiCo, Inc. is headquartered in Purchase, New York, and has…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm My-PersonalLoan. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics to scam…
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UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company Fieldbase Investments Limited. Fieldbase Investments Limited is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has informed that it has charged a stock promoter and four others involved in an alleged series of microcap fraud schemes that were foiled by FBI undercover work and an SEC trading suspension. According to the SEC’s complaint filed in federal court in southern California on July 6, stock…
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The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has just warned investors that HQBroker is not registered to sell securities in Ontario. HQBroker manages the website hqbroker.com, where it claims to offer a variety of trading solutions to retail and institutional investors through contracts for difference, derivatives and forex currency pairs. The Securities and Futures Commission of Hong…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Equiniti Financial Services. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…
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Competition is working well for most consumers using investment platforms, according to interim findings of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)'s market study into investment platforms, published today. However, the FCA's interim findings reveal concerns about how platforms compete for particular groups of consumers. Given the rapid growth in this market, the FCA has proposed measures…
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Two former senior bankers have been convicted for manipulating the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (EURIBOR) at the height of the financial crisis following an investigation and prosecution brought by the Serious Fraud Office. Phillipe Moryoussef, formerly of Barclays Bank, was found guilty on 29th June 2018 by a jury. The conviction follows a guilty plea…
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has informed the public that it has processed an unprecedented amount of market activity through the first six months of 2018, averaging a record 57.9 billion electronic records per day during the period — a 62% increase over the average daily volume in 2017. FINRA’s pioneering cloud strategy has…
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