After sharing some really good monthly volumes with the public today, Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq:CBOE) continues to brag with its new Complex Order Options Functionality on its Cboe EDGX Options Exchange. And the company has all the rights to do it - the results speak for themselves... The expanded functionality went live on October…
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ASIC announced that it has banned Mr Damien Rodr, of Sydney, from providing financial services under s920A of the Corporations Act following an ASIC investigation into trading in the shares of DirectMoney Ltd ('DirectMoney'; ASX code: DM1). Mr Rodr, a Designated Trading Representative (or 'DTR') for Bell Potter Securities Ltd ('Bell Potter'), has been banned…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two individuals with defrauding elderly investors in a penny stock scheme involving Florida entertainment companies and their “Spongebuddy” product. The charges are part of the Miami Regional Office’s Recidivist Initiative which has thus far resulted in enforcement actions against 23 individuals, nine of whom also have been…
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Cyprus financial regulators the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC)has announced that, further to its Decision published on 11 October 2017, informs the public that, at its meeting dated 27 November 2017, it has decided to withdraw the suspension of the authorisation of the Cyprus Investment Firm Concorde Investments (Cyprus) Ltd (‘the Company’), number 189/13,…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced awards of more than $8 million each to two whistleblowers whose critical information and continuing assistance helped the agency bring the successful underlying enforcement action. With this case, SEC enforcement actions involving whistleblower awards have now resulted in more than $1 billion in financial remedies ordered…
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Market Oversight (Division) today extended relief it provided certain CFTC-registered swap dealers (SD) and major swap participants (MSP) in November 2016. Today’s relief, announced in a no-action letter, states that the Division will not recommend that the CFTC take an enforcement action against a non-U.S. SD or…
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Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), an operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, today announced the results of the ICE Endex gas storage auction held on November 29 2017, on behalf of GasTerra. On November 29, a total of 4,549,451 Standard Bundled Units (SBUs) for the contract period 2018/2019…
Read moreLondon Stock Exchange informed that it has welcomed the listing of Indian Power Finance Corporation’s (PFC) first international bond in almost two decades. The ten-year dated green bond raised $400 million, paying a 3.75 per cent semi-annual coupon and listed on London Stock Exchange’s new International Securities Market. PFC will use the proceeds of the…
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Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed No Signboard Holdings Ltd. to its Catalist under the stock code “1G6”. No Signboard Holdings Ltd. is an established and well-recognised food and beverage brand in Singapore, operating a chain of seafood restaurants under its No Signboard Seafood brand, a beer business that distributes its in-house Draft Denmark brand of…
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The French regulator Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has warned of the activities of the website https://crowd-partners.com/ which encourages savers to invest in various fraudulent investment solutions and abusively uses the label "Plate-forme de financement participatif régulée par les autorités françaises" without the required authorization. The website https://crowd-partners.com/ is abusively using the label "Plate-forme de…
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