Tag: Hong Kong SFC

September 12, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC adds Meridian Equity Group to its alert list

Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…

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September 08, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC adds Strauss Asset Management to its alert list

Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…

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September 07, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC adds Philippe Torres to its alert list

Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…

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September 07, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC bans two former HSBC employees for life

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has banned Ms Chau Hang Yu and Mr Steve Chow Chun Yin, both former employees of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC), from re-entering the industry for life following their criminal convictions. The District Court found that Chau and Chow, both of whom were responsible for selling…

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September 07, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC adds PCG Resources to its alert list

Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…

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September 01, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

LCH.Clearnet gets Hong Kong regulatory approval to provide automated trading services

International clearing house LCH.Clearnet, majority owned by London Stock Exchange Group Plc (LON:LSE), has announced that it has been authorised by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) to provide automated trading services in Hong Kong via its SwapClear and ForexClear services. LCH has also been approved as a designated central counterparty in respect of…

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September 01, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Hong Kong SFC warns against clone of Wealth Management Group

Hong Kong financial regulator SFC has issued a warning regarding a clone website of SFC-licensed Wealth Management Group Limited. The clone website wmgltd.com shows what the SFC says is an invalid address at 2345, 26 Harbour Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. The real Wealth Management Group Limited is located at 3001A, 30/F, 118 Connaught Road West, Hong Kong, and operates…

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August 29, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Binary options broker OneTwoTrade added to Hong Kong SFC's Alert List

Hong Kong financial regulator SFC has issued a warning regarding Up & Down Marketing Limited, the parent company of binary options broker OneTwoTrade. OneTwoTrade operates from website onetwotrade.com and shows having addresses at Cobalt House, Level 2, Notabile Road, Mriehel, Birkirkara BKR 3000, Malta and 6 Thomas More Street, London, E1W 1 YW, United Kingdom. According…

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