Furthermore, the Commission alleged that defendants were paid $10 million for promoting thinly traded stocks, which they misled investors to believe had high prospects for success. Paul Levenson, Director of the SEC’s Boston Regional Office, said: These scam artists went to great lengths – using bogus companies, aliases, and spoofing their phone numbers – to…
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The new LATAM40 ETF offers access, exposure and tracking of 40 of the largest Latin American stocks a single fund. The company stated: The fund generally invests at a majority of its assets in the component securities of its underlying index and in investments that have economic characteristics identical to the component securities of its…
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FINRA stated: Between January 2017 and January 2021, Crown Capital paid approximately $19.3 million in commissions earned by 18 of its registered representatives to 18 unregistered entities. The unregistered entities were corporations and limited liability companies created by the registered representatives to serve as doing business as names for their securities businesses and were disclosed…
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Without the Worldline-related effects, SIX’s net profits in 2021 increased 37.3%. During the last year, the company launched its SIX Digital Exchange and also expanded its ESG indices and data offerings. The exchange also started introduced a new equity segment for SMEs under the brand Sparks. The exchange stated: While equity trading on the stock…
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Additionally, local-currency denominated Russian bonds will be excluded from the GBI-EM indices. The bank also said that accrued interest for such bonds will be set to zero and suspended on 7 March. Moreover, Russia and Belarus will be excluded from the JESG EMBI, JESG GBI-EM, and JESG CEMBI indices. Index providers FTSE Russell and MSCI…
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SEC pointed out that Collins approved of AVG employees using the “industry standard ‘2 and 20’” language. He personally used the same language with fund investors. SEC also found that AVG made inter-fund loans and cash transfers between funds and made loans to certain funds which is in violation of the funds’ respective operating agreements.…
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In February, Global FX ADNV increased almost 15% on yearly basis. On 25 February MSCI EAFE Index (MXEA) options set a newly daily volume record with 6,793 contracts traded that day. The company said: Cboe BIDS Canada, Cboe's new Canadian equities block-trading offering, successfully launched on February 1 with strong buy-side demand. Cboe Periodic Auctions…
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Equities on Deutsche Börse generated €169.7 billion in February 2022 and trading in ETFs/ETCs/ETNs accounted for €33 billion of the turnover. Bonds accounted for €0.4 billion, in certificates €1.8 billion and in funds €0.3 billion. SAP SE was the DAX stock with the highest turnover on Xetra last month with €6.9 billion. Commerzbank AG led…
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Barclays served as Premier FX’s sole banker in the UK. The bank failed to identify that Premier FX’s internal controls were deficient and because of that, failed its due diligence conduct. Mark Steward, Executive Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight, said: Premier FX, which handled money on behalf of other people, presented particularly high risks…
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MOEX said: On the FX Market, during the trading session, the boundaries of the price corridor will not automatically change. At the opening of trading, the National Clearing Center (NCC) set the following limits of the price corridor. For the USDRUB_TOM currency pair: the lower limit is 76.145, the upper limit is 90.00. For the…
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