After prolonging license suspensions and fines, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) announces that, on its meeting of 25th July 2016, has decided to wholly withdraw the Cyprus Investment Firm authorisation with number CIF 153/11 of CommexFx Ltd, operating at www.commexfx.com. The reasons: The Company had not complied with section 28(1) of the Law…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Matchpoint Finance PLC. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…
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Moscow Exchange (MOEX) just announced that Rosneft and Alrosa have become the first ever corporates to obtain direct market access (DMA) and trade on Moscow Exchange's FX Market. From 16 January 2017, Russian legal entities not qualified as credit institutions or professional market participants have been eligible to operate on the currency market on the…
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TMX Group Limited (TSX: X) today announced March 2017 trading statistics for its marketplaces – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange (Alpha), Montréal Exchange (MX) and NGX. MX achieved another open interest record for Options on Three-Month Canadian Bankers' Acceptance Futures (OBX) of 315,645 contracts on March 7, 2017 (315,410 contracts on…
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ASIC has cancelled the Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence of Parramatta-based company Rural & General Insurance Broking Pty Limited (RGIB) for failing to comply with their legal obligations and licence conditions. In particular, ASIC has found that RGIB failed to lodge annual financial statements and auditor's reports for the financial years ending 30 June 2014…
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The Board of Directors of SIX has selected Sabir Sheikh to head up issuer regulation and Jared Bibler to be in charge of trading supervision at SIX Exchange Regulation. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has approved the selection. This means that the Management Committee of SIX Exchange Regulation, led by Corinne Riguzzi, is…
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The Market Misconduct Tribunal (MMT) today fined Mayer Holdings Limited and nine of its current and former senior executives a total of $10.2 million after they were found to have failed to disclose inside information as soon as reasonably practicable as required under the Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO). The MMT also imposed disqualification orders…
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The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) just announced that has reprimanded Guoyuan Securities Brokerage (Hong Kong) Limited and fined it $4.5 million for its failure to conduct proper enquiries and scrutiny to mitigate the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing when processing third party fund transfers for clients between September 2010 and July 2012.…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Kara Novaco Brockmeyer, Chief of the Enforcement Division’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Unit, is planning to leave the agency later this month. Since 2011, Ms. Brockmeyer has led a national unit of 38 attorneys, accountants, and other specialists focusing on violations of the anti-bribery and accounting…
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The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) published for comment Proposed National Instrument 93-101 Derivatives: Business Conduct and a related proposed companion policy. The proposed instrument establishes an investor protection regime for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives markets that is consistent with international standards and foreign requirements and is intended to create a uniform approach to derivatives business conduct…
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