UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the firm Wainscott Consulting Group. Wainscott Consulting Group is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has launched the next phase of consultations on its proposed framework for regulating crowdfunding platforms in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), with a paper detailing its approach to investment-based crowdfunding. The consultation is the second in a series of papers which outline the DFSA’s measures to support the…
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Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited (HKFE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), has released a list of minimum margins to be collected by an Exchange Participant from its clients in respect of their dealings in these particular futures contracts. The information is with effect from the commencement of trading on Monday,…
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UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the firm Halifax and Penn. Halifax and Penn is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has commenced legal proceedings in the Court of First Instance to seek disqualification and compensation orders against Mr Tse On Kin, former chairman and executive director of Kong Sun Holdings Limited (Kong Sun) and China Sandi Holdings Limited (China Sandi), for devising a scheme to conceal his interests in…
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On 30 January 2017, ESMA has issued an Opinion, addressed to national regulators in order to ensure a harmonised approach across the EU, in which it sets out the following four high-level principles which UCITS must follow when setting up different share classes: common investment objective; non-contagion; pre-determination; and transparency. It should be noted that…
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The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has banned Ms Li Lee, a former employee of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC), from re-entering the industry for life following her criminal convictions. The District Court earlier found that Li, who was responsible for selling and promoting investment and insurance products at HSBC at the…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has appointed Ferheen Mahomed to serve as its Group General Counsel from today (Monday). Ms Mahomed will head HKEX's Legal Services Department and oversee the Group's legal function, including the teams at the London Metal Exchange (LME) and LME Clear. She will report to HKEX Chief Executive Charles…
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The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has become a full signatory of the IOSCO Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MMoU) after the IOSCO team of international experts assessed ADGM as fully compliant with the international benchmark for effective cross-border cooperation. The IOSCO MMoU provides a global framework for enforcement co-operation…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it obtained an emergency court order freezing brokerage accounts holding more than $29 million in illegal profits from insider trading in advance of the April 2016 acquisition of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Inc. by Comcast Corp. The SEC alleges that in the weeks leading up to the news…
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