France's vigilant financial regulator has added five new entries to its “Black list” of companies offering Forex services to French customers without having the proper license.
Read moreFrance's financial regulator AMF has just revealed the results of a mystery shopping campaign that targeted Internet sites, offering Forex and binary options trading. The check showed that the mystery shoppers rarely had problems opening a live account and trading without an identification document, whereas withdrawal of funds was as confusing and hard as it…
Read moreFrance's Financial Markets Authority (AMF) is widely known for regularly updating its “Black List” of unauthorized online trading companies. Earlier this month we saw it include massive 189 companies in its list of unauthorized binary options brokers and today the watchdog updated its list of Forex brokers that offer their services in France without having the…
Read moreFrance's Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), the national securities market watchdog, earlier today updated its “Black List” of binary options brokers that offer their services in the country without having the necessary license for that. The list now features an impressive number of 189 companies, up from the 155 entries in the list as of December…
Read moreMany retail FX firms, in particular market makers, view France as a particularly lucrative market compared with other European nations. Today, France's national regulatory authority has raised concern, citing that the vast majority of traders across an entire spectrum of experience have lost substantial amounts of money over the last five years
Read moreWith a large number of unregulated FX and binary options firms targeting the lucrative French market, France's national financial markets regulator has issued a comprehensive list of firms which do not possess the correct license to solicit French clients
Read moreFrench advertising and marketing authorities set forth criteria to ensure caveats relating to online promotion of leveraged investment products A set of stringent rules has been published by Autorite de Regulation Professionnelle de la Publicite (ARRP), the French marketing regulator, with the intention of clamping down on the methods by which leveraged investment products, including…
Read moreInvestment Trends reports 20-30% year-over-year increase in participants in FX and CFD trading in France. Research firm Investment Trends published an updated report on FX and CFD trading in France, which showed a healthy increase in trading in 2012 over 2011, despite lower volatility levels. (We understand, in our conversations with brokers and platform providers,…
Read moreFrance remains a very small FX/CFD market, relative to its size.
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