Category: Financial Services

clone firm FCA warning
February 07, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Sunshine Credit clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Sunshine Credit. 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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TMX Group volumes report
February 07, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

TMX releases January trading statistics, MX with an overall open interest record

TMX Group Limited (TSX:X) has just announced January 2018 trading statistics for its marketplaces – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange (Alpha) and Montréal Exchange (MX). MX reached an overall open interest record of 7,889,212 contracts on January 17, 2018 and an equity option open interest record of 3,760,575 contracts on January…

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February 07, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Devexperts' dxTrade trading platform with FIX certification from Borsa Istanbul

Devexperts, the developer of trading platforms and market data solutions, announced that it has successfully passed conformance tests and obtained Advanced Level FIX certificates for Equity and Derivatives Markets from Borsa Istanbul. The certifications from Borsa Istanbul assure that dxTrade, the multi-asset and multi-market trading platform developed by Devexperts, satisfies the requirements for executing advanced…

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Lingxi ,China Finance Online Co. Limited
February 07, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Pentalateral cooperation to create a new Power Exchange for Central and South Eastern Europe

ELEKTROMREŽA SRBIJE (EMS), the European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT, the Hungarian Power Exchange HUPX, the Hungarian Independent Transmission Operator Company MAVIR and the South East European Power Exchange SEEPEX have announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which foresees the creation of a strong cross-regional power exchange in the Central and South…

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NZX Carbon Fund (CO2)
February 07, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

NZX to adjust NZ milk price options exercise price interval

NZX has announced that it will adjust the NZ milk price options minimum exercise price intervals to NZD 5 cents from NZD 10 cents, effective 8 March 2018. The change will allow traders in NZX’s dairy derivatives market to price structured options more accurately, and increase the amount of listed strikes as liquidity grows. This…

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Belize regulator IFSC warning
February 07, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Belize regulator IFSC warns against Littinvest Ltd

Belize financial regulator IFSC has issued a Warning Notice regarding a company called Littinvest Ltd. The entity is not licensed under the IFSC Act to provide, carry on, transact, or hold himself out as providing, carrying on, or transacting any of the international financial services as set out in the Schedule of the IFSC Act…

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Euronext reports strong results in 2018
February 07, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Euronext releases January volumes, FX trading at $20.8 billion ADV

Euronext, the pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, just announced trading volumes for January 2018. Cash trading In January 2018, the average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at €7,773 million, up +20.4% compared to January 2017 and stable from the previous month. The average daily transaction value on ETFs order book…

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FCA warning
February 06, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against GoldTech Media Services OU trading as S2Trade

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 GoldTech Media Services OU trading as S2Trade. GoldTech Media Services is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is…

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CySEC fine
February 06, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CySEC fines CIF licensed Hoch Capital Ltd €30,000

The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has just informed that, at the meeting held on 20th November 2017, it decided to impose an administrative fine of €30.000 to the CIF Hoch Capital Ltd (‘the Company’). The fine has been made due to non-compliance with section 36(1)(a) of the Investment Services and…

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