Tag: APAC

Australia cfh office
October 21, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

ESMA and ASIC to co-operate on Australian benchmarks

EU’s regulator for securities markets (ESMA) and Australia's regulator ASIC have announced earlier today that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) setting out cooperation arrangements in respect of Australian benchmarks. The EU Benchmarks Regulation (BMR) prescribes a European common framework to ensure the integrity and accuracy of benchmarks used in the EU. Earlier…

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fma warning
October 18, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

FMA adds the forex provider Circle Markets Limited to its warning list

New Zealand Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has issued a warning on its official website to a non-licensed derivatives issuer and forex provider, Circle Markets Limited, under the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (AML/CFT). The regulator found that Circle Markets Limited had failed to adequately verify identity information for some customers; obtain…

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October 17, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Straits Financial Group teams up with Integral

Singapore-based brokerage Straits Financial Group has announced yesterday that it has teamed up with Integral to deploy new eFX workflow automation and trading technology to drive business growth. Straits Financial offers a full spectrum of derivatives and OTC products to its global client base. Committed to providing a bespoke service, the group needed an eFX…

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fma warning
October 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

New Zealand FMA adds Safumax Group Limited to its warning list

New Zealand Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has recently added another name to its list of unregulated firms. The latest addition is the company Safumax Group Limited. The regulator expressed its concern that Safumax Group Limited (SGL) is operating from a false address, and its website www.safumax.com contains misleading information that SGL is a licensed entity…

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October 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

VivCourt extends the use of Itiviti tech, supports its global Asian derivatives business

Itiviti, a technology, and service provider to financial institutions worldwide, has announced that Vivienne Court Trading (VivCourt) has extended the use of Itiviti’s trading technology. VivCourt is an Australia-based, socially conscious investment firm, which trades across Asia and is now expanding into China, EMEA and Brazil. VivCourt has been using Itiviti's technology since 2011 for options…

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MAS Monetary Authority of Singapore
October 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

MAS: New initiatives to facilitate capital market activities between Singapore and China

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has yesterday shared with the pubic that new initiatives were underway to strengthen capital market activities between Singapore and China. The initiatives were discussed at the 15th Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation between Singapore and China and aim to facilitate the growing interest of financial institutions based in Singapore…

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CME Group record
October 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group reaches record APAC ADV of 1.2m contracts in Q3

Derivatives marketplace CME Group has today announced that it achieved its highest quarterly Asia Pacific average daily volume (ADV) on record, with 1.2 million contracts traded during third-quarter of 2019. That's a 61% rise YoY and surpassing the previous quarterly record of 1.1 million contracts traded in second-quarter 2019. Latin America quarterly ADV was 152,000…

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Invast Global announces partnership with Cboe Global Markets
October 10, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Invast Global announces partnership with Cboe Global Markets

Multi-asset brokerage based in Sydney and Hong Kong, Invast Global, has just announced its partnership with Cboe Global Markets. Invast Global is a provider of Prime Brokerage Services globally, allowing brokers, asset managers and hedge funds access to execution, clearing and custody services across a range of global markets in Equities, ETFs, Futures, Foreign Exchange…

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Singapore
October 09, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Singapore's MAS cuts FX leverage to 20:1

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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