Category: Financial Services

June 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against ADG Placement clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm ADG Placement. 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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June 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Capital City Holdings firm

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 Capital City Holdings. Capital City Holdings is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…

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June 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Euronext Growth market announces listing of Kalray

Euronext has just announced the listing of microprocessor specialist Kalray, France’s largest IPO since 2012 on its Euronext Growth market. Founded in 2008, Kalray designed and developed MPPA® (Massively Parallel Processor Array), a unique microprocessor architecture that expands real-time computing power exponentially while keeping energy consumption very low. The company is a spin-off of CEA,…

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June 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC to ensure registered liquidators comply with obligations

An ASIC review has found that while registered liquidators are mostly doing the right thing when complying with their lodgement and publication obligations, there is room for improvement. The review looked at around 26,000 insolvency administrations over a 3-year period to June 2017 and tested how registered liquidators complied with their obligations. ASIC found that…

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June 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Merrill Lynch charged for failure to supervise RMBS traders

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. will pay more than $15 million to settle charges that its employees misled customers into overpaying for Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS). Merrill Lynch agreed to repay more than $10.5 million to its customers and to pay penalties of approximately…

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June 12, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Global exchange revenues hit record $30.7 billion in 2017

Global exchange revenues totaled a record $30.7 billion in 2017, increasing by 8.1% as resurgent trading, clearing and settlement revenue supported industry growth according to Burton-Taylor International Consulting (a division of TP ICAP’s Data & Analytics group) in a report published today. London Stock Exchange Group (LSE) and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) drive…

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June 12, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC fines individual $80,000

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced that it has reprimanded Mr Lau Ki Fung, a former account executive of KGI Asia Limited (KGI), and fined him $80,000 for failing to keep proper records of order instructions from clients. The SFC found that between 29 July 2015 and 10 August 2015, Lau received…

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June 12, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

TASE launches new Tel Bond-Dollar Index

​The board of directors of the Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) announced that they have approved (June 7th, 2018) the launch of a new corporate bonds index – the “Tel Bond-Dollar Index”. The index will consist of dollar-linked corporate bonds listed on TASE. Following the launch of the new index, TASE will be calculating 29 Tel…

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