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 Bulwark Insurance. Bulwark Insurance is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated activities which…
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Deutsche Börse Group continues to welcome major sell- and buy-side institutions as users of its Regulatory Reporting Hub service. With MiFID II becoming effective on 3 January 2018, the Regulatory Reporting Hub (RRH) will enable sell-side, buy-side and systems integrators' clients to meet their regulatory obligations easily and efficiently. Recently, BaFin (German Federal Financial Supervisory…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) informed that it has today fined Tejoori Limited (Tejoori) £70,000 for failing to inform the market of inside information as required by Article 17(1) of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR). This is the first fine the FCA has imposed on an AIM company for late disclosure following the introduction of…
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Euronext today announced its approval by the French regulator, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), to provide Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) and Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) services to Investment Firms in Europe, from the introduction of MiFID II on 3rd January 2018. In July 2017, Euronext announced the enhancement of its Trade Publication and Transactions Reporting…
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Bursa Malaysia Berhad (“Bursa Malaysia” or “the Exchange”) today released the 3rd edition of the Corporate Governance Guide (“CG Guide”) to provide guidance for listed issuers to improve their corporate governance practices and reporting, in line with the new Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance (“MCCG”) issued on 26 April 2017 and the recent enhanced corporate…
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Interactive Brokers LLC ('Interactive') has paid a penalty of $250,000 to comply with an infringement notice given to it by the Markets Disciplinary Panel ('the MDP'), ASIC informed earlier today. The MDP found it had reasonable grounds to believe that Interactive had breached the ASIC Market Integrity Rules (Chi-X Australia Market) 2011 which: prohibit a…
Read moreLondon Stock Exchange has today welcomed the listing of the world’s first Indonesian offshore rupiah-denominated bond – a Komodo bond - issued by an Indonesian State Owned Enterprise to its new International Securities Market. The landmark bond issuance from Jasa Marga, state-owned Indonesian toll road operator, was close to four times over subscribed. The listing…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published a package of proposals on how firms and individuals will move to the Senior Managers and Certification Regime. The aim of the new regime is to make individuals more accountable for their conduct and competence. Earlier this year, the FCA consulted on extending the new regime to…
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The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) informed that it has reprimanded and fined FXCM Asia Limited (HK FXCM) (now known as Rakuten Securities Hong Kong Limited) HK$2 million for regulatory breaches and internal control failings relating to under-segregation of client money. The SFC’s investigation found that from January 2013 to January 2015, HK FXCM under-segregated…
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On 11th December, the 2017 Shenzhen (municipal) Rail Transportation Special Bonds (1st tranche) were successfully issued via the Ministry of Finance-SZSE Government Bonds Issuing System, which were the first rail transportation special bonds issued nation-wide following the offering of land reservation and government toll road special bonds since the pilot offering of special bonds. The…
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