The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has announced on Tuesday that it has made the following new retail regulations: Retail investors will now have access to 20:1 leverage (previous leverage was 50:1). As stated in the announcement, exemption from the new measures are only specified holders of a licence who maintain a base capital of…
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Two weeks back, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) released a consultation paper, which suggested that, since all other measures had failed to curb extraordinary losses caused by binary options and to a lesser extent by CFDs, the agency intended to ban binary options and severely restrict the use of CFDs. The measures were…
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The European regulator ESMA has earlier today issued its positive opinion on product intervention measures taken by Slovenia and its National Competent Authority (NCA). According to the EU watchdog, the proposed measures are justified and proportionate. NCA needs to take product intervention measures that are at least as stringent as ESMA’s measures. However, Slovenia’s Securities…
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The EU securities markets’ regulator ESMA has announced earlier today that it will not renew the temporary restriction on the marketing, distribution or sale of contracts for differences (CFDs) to retail clients in the European Union (EU). LeapRate reminds that last year ESMA has taken product intervention measures relating to CFDs, imposing a temporary restriction…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has released its opinion on product intervention measures taken by the National Competent Authorities (NCAs) of the countries of Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Malta. LeapRate reminds that Germany’s BaFin has recently informed that it maintains restrictions on retail trading with financial CFDs. BaFin first announced its decision back in…
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