Tag: APAC

Broadridge
January 18, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Broadridge appoints David Ingleson as APAC COO

Samir Pandiri, President of Broadridge International commented: Clients are facing an extraordinarily complex operating environment and David’s deep industry and regional knowledge are key assets as Broadridge helps clients adopt and apply next-generation technologies to drive business. We are very excited to have David join Broadridge as we expand our regional capabilities and we look…

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January 15, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ThinkMarkets sues former employee for taking sensitive information

The lawsuit said: ThinkMarkets is highly concerned that, among other things, Sorenson has disclosed or will disclose it to his new employer in order to, among other benefits, secure his new employment and otherwise harm ThinkMarkets. Soreson worked at the IT Department of ThinkMarkets almost 5 years until 2 October 2020. The lawsuit says that…

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ASIC, AFS licence
January 12, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ASIC cancels Halifax Investment Services’ AFS licence

On 8 January 2019 the Australian watchdog suspended the Halifax AFS licence until 10 January 2020. The suspension followed the appointment of Morgan Kelly, Stewart McCallum and Phil Quinlan of Ferrier Hodgson as joint voluntary administrators of Halifax on 23 November 2018. On 20 March 2019 at the second creditors meeting it was decided to…

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CME Group
January 07, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group launches six new Japanese energy futures contracts

The four new electricity contracts are: Japanese power (Day-Ahead) Tokyo base-load futures Japanese power (Day-Ahead) Tokyo peak-load futures Japanese power (Day-Ahead) Kansai base-load futures Japanese power (Day-Ahead) Kansai peak-load futures. The contracts are denominated in Japanese yen using the arithmetic average of the 30-minute Spot Market (Day-Ahead) prices published by the Japan Wholesale Power Exchange…

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Jacobi Asset Management lists Europe’s first spot Bitcoin ETF
January 06, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

MAS strengthens regulation of crypto exchanges

The new amendments also allow MAS to impose measures on DPT service providers to ensure better consumer protection and to maintain financial stability and safeguard the efficacy of monetary policy. MAS stated: We have seen recent development of new forms of DPTs which values are pegged to stable assets to gain users’ confidence. It is…

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HKEX
January 04, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Calvin Tai steps in as HKEX interim chief executive

From 1 January, Calvin Tai has been appointed as Interim Chief Executive of HKEX and an ex-officio member of the Board. He will also continue his role in the company e as Co-President and Chief Operating Officer of HKEX. He started his career starting at various positions in general banking and treasury at The Hongkong…

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tfx japan forex click365
January 04, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

TFX Click kabu 365 down 8% MoM in December

Equity Index Daily Futures contracts (Click kabu 365) The total trading volume of Equity Index Daily Futures contracts (Click kabu 365) was 1,926,433 (-21.0% MoM / +169.6% YoY) and its average daily trading volume was 86,087. Items Dec 2020 Trading Volume Daily Average Change on Previous Month Year on Year Change Click kabu 365 1,926,433…

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Hong Kong SFC
December 23, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Hong Kong SFC fines Fulbright Securities Limited $3.6 million

The regulator also found that Fulbright failed to report these incidents to the SFC immediately upon discovering them. In deciding the disciplinary sanction, the SFC took into account that adequate and effective internal control systems are fundamental to the fitness and properness of a licensed corporation and that Fulbright’s short selling failures lasted for at…

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