The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) announced that it has decided to impose a total administrative fine of €50,000 to CIF Centralspot Trading Ltd for non-compliance with: Section 28(1) of the Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law of 2007, as amended from time to time (‘the Law’), as it…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) informed that it has today fined Tejoori Limited (Tejoori) £70,000 for failing to inform the market of inside information as required by Article 17(1) of the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR). This is the first fine the FCA has imposed on an AIM company for late disclosure following the introduction of…
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Interactive Brokers LLC ('Interactive') has paid a penalty of $250,000 to comply with an infringement notice given to it by the Markets Disciplinary Panel ('the MDP'), ASIC informed earlier today. The MDP found it had reasonable grounds to believe that Interactive had breached the ASIC Market Integrity Rules (Chi-X Australia Market) 2011 which: prohibit a…
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The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) informed that it has reprimanded and fined FXCM Asia Limited (HK FXCM) (now known as Rakuten Securities Hong Kong Limited) HK$2 million for regulatory breaches and internal control failings relating to under-segregation of client money. The SFC’s investigation found that from January 2013 to January 2015, HK FXCM under-segregated…
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The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) informed that it has sanctioned the ultimate and indirect controlling shareholder (the “Sanctioned Person”) of Orco Property Group S.A. (the “Issuer”) for market manipulations on the shares of the Issuer (ISINLU0122624777) in accordance with the provisions of the Law of 9 May 2006 on market abuse (the…
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Murray River Organics Group Limited (Murray River Organics) has paid a penalty of $33,000 after ASIC issued an infringement notice for an alleged failure by the company to comply with its continuous disclosure obligations. The infringement notice was issued after an ASIC investigation into an announcement on 4 May 2017 by Murray River Organics to…
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The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) wishes to inform the public that, at its meeting held on 25th September 2017, it decided to impose administrative fines totalling €16,000 on ASP Asoted Services Ltd for non-compliance with: Sections 58(a) and 58(c) of The Prevention and Suppression of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing…
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Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) announced that it has today reprimanded and fined five directors of TRIVE Property Group Bhd (Trive) for knowingly furnishing false or misleading statements in the 2014 audited financial statements of the company to SC and Bursa Malaysia. SC’s sanctions arose as a result of its findings that Trive had failed to…
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Merrill Lynch Equities (Australia) Limited ('MLEA') has paid a total penalty of $140,000 to comply with an infringement notice given to it by the Markets Disciplinary Panel ('the MDP'), ASIC announced earlier today. The MDP found that between July 2014 and April 2016, MLEA: executed orders contrary to wholesale clients' instructions to opt out of…
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that it has taken civil penalty action against Mr Tarek Abdel Tawab Mohamed Abdel Bary (Tarek Bary) for insider trading in the shares of CSE Global Limited (CSE Global). Tarek Bary has admitted to contravening section 218(2)(a) of the SFA, and will pay MAS a civil penalty of…
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