Tag: binary options in Japan

March 11, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Binary Options Scam Watch – Japan's FSA warns against SimPop

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has earlier today updated its Warning List of investment companies targeting Japanese clientele without the necessary permission from the authorities. The set of latest additions includes binary options broker SimPop, offering its services via sim-pop.com. The company behind this binary options broker is World Union Lead Trust Limited, purporting to…

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February 10, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Japan's FSA warns against three binary options brokers

Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has earlier today updated its set of warning lists featuring names of unauthorized investment services providers targeting Japanese investors. The latest additions include three binary options brokers: BizOption Management Office (Bizoption), Worldoptionner Management Office (Worldoption), LFG Investment Ltd (OptionRally). The addresses of Bizoption and Worldoption are unknown, whereas OptionRally provides…

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February 03, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

EZTD obtains Japanese license to provide online brokerage services

EZTD Inc (OTCMKTS:EZTD), provider of binary options services, today announces that it is now fully licensed to operate in Japan through EZ Invest Securities Co. Ltd., EZTD’s subsidiary. EZ Invest Securities Co. Ltd is regulated by Japan's Financial Services Agency as a Type 1 Financial Instrument Business Operator. This type of permission allows the company to…

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January 13, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Japan's FSA warns against binary options broker GBinarys

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has earlier today updated its lists of unauthorized investment businesses targeting Japanese investors. Amid the new additions is GBinarys, a binary options brand of Binext Global Ltd, operating from https://gbinarys.com. Although the company provides an address in Marshall Islands, that is, it is registered overseas, the Japanese laws require derivatives…

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December 15, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Japan's FSA warns regarding binary options broker OptionMart

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has just updated the list of investment companies that unlawfully target Japanese investors. The pool of latest additions includes the name of Shiny Maple Limited, operating as OptionMart. The latter is a binary options broker offering its services via https://www.optionmart.net. The company provides an address in the Seychelles but as…

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December 14, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Japanese OTC Forex volumes drop 20.3% MoM in November 2015

Earlier today, the Futures Financial Association of Japan (FFAJ) posted the monthly operating metrics of its members that offer Forex and binary options trading over the counter for November 2015. The Forex and binary options segments both showed pronounced drops in trading volumes last month, with Forex volumes dropping 20.3% from October 2015 levels and…

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November 16, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Japanese OTC Forex volumes drop 31.1% MoM in October 2015

Earlier today, the Futures Financial Association of Japan (FFAJ) published the monthly operating metrics of its members that offer Forex and binary options trading over the counter for October 2015. The Forex and binary options segments displayed pronounced decreases in trading volumes last month, with Forex volumes dropping by 31.1% from September 2015 levels and binary…

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November 11, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Japan's FSA adds Trade-Bo, Option Ace to Warning List

Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has earlier today updated its Warning List, which includes the names of overseas businesses that lack the necessary registration to target Japanese investors but nevertheless do so. The latest additions to the list are two binary options brokers: Trade-Bo, operating from https://www.trade-bo.com, and Option Ace, operating from https://www.option-ace.com. Both companies…

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