The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today issued a consultation paper on new guidance about the handling of certain regular premium payment protection insurance (PPI) complaints. In March 2017 the FCA has made rules in relation to the Supreme Court judgment in Plevin. That judgment and the rules say that a lenders failure to disclose…
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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 World Class Group Consultants Inc. World Class Group Consultants Inc is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Helmut Köb. 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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Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has just released its market report for the month of June 2018. Total trading volume across Moscow Exchange’s markets was RUB 70.8 trln in June 2018. The fastest-growing market was the Bond Market, where trading volumes increased by 16.8% year-on-year. The first half of 2018 was strong for Moscow Exchange, with many…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Loan Match. 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 Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has announced that, on its meeting of 25th June 2018, has decided, pursuant to section 8(1)(a) of the Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law of 2017 (ΝI87(I)/2017), as in force (‘the Law’), to wholly withdraw the Cyprus Investment Firm authorisation with number CIF 216/13 of the…
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In the first six months of the year, there have been significantly more IPOs and listings of new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the cash markets of Deutsche Börse than in previous years. Trading volumes on the platforms Xetra, Börse Frankfurt and Tradegate Exchange were also significantly higher than in previous years; in the first six…
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Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the international financial hub in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Finance Innovation, France’s official innovation cluster for the financial industry, based in Paris. The collaboration will support the development of the FinTech ecosystem in…
Read moreThe Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has shared its support of the proposals in the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited’s (Exchange) consultation paper published today relating to backdoor listings and shell activities. These proposals are part of a series of initiatives to address concerns about problematic corporate and market conduct and represent…
Read moreDeutsche Börse Cash Market has just announced that AKASOL AG (ISIN: DE000A2JNWZ9 ) was listed today in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The shares of the Darmstadt-based battery manufacturer started trading at €48.80 after an issue price of €48.50 Euro. This takes the current number of IPOs in Frankfurt since the beginning…
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