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 Tait Investment Group. Tait Investment Group 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 announced that it has welcomed 52 new listings to its Nordic markets during the first half (1H) of 2018, raising 2.4 billion EUR in capital. Twenty-three of the new listings were on the Main Market, while 29 occurred on Nasdaq’s European growth market, Nasdaq First North. We have experienced a very…
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FINRA has announced that it is launching an enhanced disclosure review process for public financial records of individuals seeking registration with a brokerage firm. Beginning on July 9, FINRA will perform a public records review within 15 calendar days after a firm applies to register an individual with FINRA. The review will enhance the quality…
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Switzerland’s stock exchange – owned and managed by SIX – has just announced that it is building a fully integrated trading, settlement and custody infrastructure for digital assets. SIX is regulated as an operator of Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) by Swiss Authorities, FINMA and the Swiss National Bank, and intends that the planned ‘digital asset…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Credit Suisse Group AG will pay approximately $30 million to resolve SEC charges that it obtained investment banking business in the Asia-Pacific region by corruptly influencing foreign officials in violation of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). Credit Suisse also agreed to pay a $47 million criminal…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Central Trust. 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…
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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has launched a consultation on proposals to amend the Guideline on Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing to keep it in line with international anti-money laundering and counter-financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) standards and make it more useful and relevant. The proposed amendments expand the types of politically exposed…
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On Wednesday, 27th June, the constitutive meeting of the new EEX Exchange Council was held in Leipzig. At the meeting, the members of the newly elected Exchange Council re-appointed Dr Michael Redanz, Managing Director of EWE Trading GmbH, as their Chairman for a further term. The members also elected Dr Bernhard Walter, Head of Market…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Alliance Trust Plc. 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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A financial services Alliance with a combined global membership of 200,000 has announced that it is challenging UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to do more to support professionalism in UK financial services. The Chartered Body Alliance, which is composed of the Chartered Insurance Institute, the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment and the Chartered Banker…
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