The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today set out a package of measures designed to ensure that the UK’s primary capital markets remain effective. In 2015 the FCA committed to reviewing the effectiveness of the UK’s primary capital markets, and the regulatory framework governing them to ensure they continue effectively to serve issuers and investors.…
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Full European Vanguard product range tradable on Xetra for the first time Exchange traded funds (ETFs) issued by Vanguard have been tradable for the first time on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Thursday. The 23 new ETFs provide investors with access to an extensive product range of equity, fixed income and strategy ETFs. We are…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) announced that it will introduce its cash-settled TSI Iron Ore Fines 62 per cent Fe CFR China Futures (Iron Ore Futures), its first ferrous metal product, on Monday, 13 November 2017. As a leading international financial and trade centre, Hong Kong provides one-stop solutions to enterprises for trading,…
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The ARPP (French advertising self-regulatory organization) has issued a recommendation in order to inform the advertising industry regarding the regulation of intermediation in miscellaneous assets. With a view to better protection for savers, the Sapin II law has introduced a change in the system: no offer on atypical investments car be directly marketed in France…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published position limits on certain commodity derivative contracts which are traded on UK trading venues. The limits have been established by exercising the regulator's power of direction under Regulation 16 of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2017 (MIFI Regs) in accordance…
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The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) has issued a warning of the activities of an entity named Crown Managers. The company, which claims to be established at 5 Maison de Soins de l’Etat, 9440 Vianden, Luxembourg, is operating at www.crownmanagers.com. The CSSF informs the public that Crown Managers is unknown to it and that…
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Shares in Canada's renowned lifestyle brand begin trading today TMX Group (TSX:X)'s senior equity exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX), announced that it has welcomed Canadian retailer Roots as it began trading this morning under the symbol TSX:ROOT. We are proud to welcome Roots, a truly iconic and world-renowned Canadian lifestyle brand to our market today,"…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has announced charges against Mohammed Ali Rashid, a former senior partner at Apollo Management L.P., for defrauding his fund clients by secretly billing them for approximately $290,000 in personal expenditures. Mr. Rashid is charged with using client funds for family vacations, visits to a hair salon, and purchases of…
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The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR) have just published a list of new websites and entities offering investments on the unregulated foreign exchange (Forex) market in France, without authorisation to do so. Here is the list of new websites recently identified: www.1875-financeinvest.com / 1875 FINANCE…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm UK Financial Investment Ltd. 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…
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