Category: Financial Services

Moscow Exchange
October 29, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

MOEX reports 18% rise in operating income in third quarter of 2021

Operating income was increased 18.2% YoY and F&C income accounted for a record 75% of operating income. Yury Denisov, Chief Executive Officer of Moscow Exchange, said: MOEX has delivered fee and commission income growth significantly ahead of our strategic targets. Key drivers of this growth include the roll-out of new products and instruments, the expansion…

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October 28, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CFTC and SEC charge SwapStar with investment fraud

The regulators noted that Rege and SwapStar used part of the money to trade commodity interests through accounts they owned. Some of the client funds were used to pay bogus gains to some clients, to return original investments amounts to others and to pay for some of Rage's personal expenses. Additionally, Rage failed to disclose…

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Broadridge Financial Solutions
October 28, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Broadridge goes live with proxy sub-custody services in Switzerland

Broadridge’s user community, which includes global and local custodian banks, brokers, wealth managers and central securities depositories (CSDs), is now able to  enhance the services they provide to Swiss market investors. The new service achieves that by enabling early receipt of issuer-verified event announcements, improved deadlines for submitting votes, confirmation of votes received by the…

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LSEG, London Stock Exchange
October 22, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

LSEG reports 7.1% rise in revenue in Q3 2021

LSEG also reported an increase demand for data analytics and post-trade services. Data & Analytics revenue grew 6% and post trade revenue jumped 11.5%. The post trade income reached 218 million for the third quarter, 2.3% higher than the same period the previous year. David Schwimmer, CEO said: The Group has delivered a strong Q3…

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SEC
October 21, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Credit Suisse ordered to pay $475 million in charges related to Mozambican bond offerings

The SEC highlighted that this stems from Credit Suisse's deficient internal accounting controls. The failed to properly address significant and known risks concerning bribery. Gurbir S. Grewal, Director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement said: When it comes to cross-border securities law violations, the SEC will continue to work collaboratively with overseas law enforcement and…

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CFTC
October 21, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CFTC brings charges in a $3.9 million forex and crypto fraud scheme

According to the CFTC, since September 2020, the defendants solicited through different channels, including Kikit’s website, over $3.9 million from 61 clients. The clients gave their money to the defendants to manage them in customized client portfolios for forex and crypto trading. The regulator stated that the defendants did not trade with their clients funds…

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CFTC fine
October 15, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CFTC fines UBS $500K for deleted audio files

According to the regulator, before June 2019, UBS implemented multiple software systems to comply with its recordkeeping obligations. These systems operate its trader turret communication devices and recorded and stored voice recordings of calls occurring on these trader turrets. The recording systems had a know flaw causing them to fail to synchronize certain call data.…

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Moscow Exchange
October 14, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Moscow Exchange extends the trading hours of Equity Market

Earlier this year, Moscow Exchange has been extending trading hours for market participants. Since March, MOEX’s FX, Precious Metals and Derivatives Markets opened at 7am and closed at 23:50 Moscow time. The exchange made available after-hours trading on Bond Market in September. Clients of the exchange are able to test the morning hours on their…

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CME Group
October 05, 2021 BY Alan Sayer

CME Group sees overall ADV rise 14% in Q3

In September, demand elsewhere decreased, with agriculture, equities, and metal derivatives ADV falling both in the month and the quarter. However, CME revealed that interest rate ADV helped to push its overall demand higher. September saw interest rate ADV increase 58% to 7.66 million contracts, with the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) hitting a record…

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