Canadian securities regulator the Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) has issued its list of Top 5 risks for retail investors and traders in 2017. And, it includes a number of issues which have been at the forefront of the news of late among some of the other provincial securities and financial regulators across the country. Both…
Read moreThe British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) on Friday updated its Investment Caution List, which features the names of unregistered foreign brokerage firms that have solicited investors to open trading accounts, offered them unqualified investments and the names of businesses connected, or purporting to be connected, to British Columbia that have solicited investors in other jurisdictions…
Read moreCentral Option cold called a senior investigator with Canadian regulator MSC who ironically works on binary options fraud.
Read moreThe British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) on Friday issued a warning against binary options firm Opteck, thus taking the number of participants in its Investment Caution list to 155. Opteck, a brand of CST Financial Services Ltd, offers its services via opteck.com. The broker claims to be based in Belize City, Belize. The regulator has…
Read moreThe British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has added its voice to the chorus of concerns regarding Cyprus-registered binary options broker Interactive Option. On Wednesday, the British Columbia regulator added Interactive Option, a brand of Pegase Capital Limited, to its Investment Caution list, noting that the company is not authorized to offer investment services to BC…
Read moreThe fraud prevention month in Canada just ended but investment scams continue to get new victims, with the latest example provided from Manitoba, where an elderly widow invested all of her savings in an unauthorized binary options firm. The unlicensed entity in question is Iseebinary.com and the woman invested by wiring money to a bank account…
Read moreThe British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) continues to add companies to its Investment Caution List, which includes the names of unregistered brokers unlawfully targeting British Columbia investors or falsely claiming to be associated with the Canadian province. The latest addition to the Investment Caution List is Central Option, a binary options broker offering its services…
Read moreThe British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) keeps adding companies to its Investment Caution List, which features the names of unregistered brokerage firms unlawfully targeting British Columbia investors or falsely claiming to be associated with the Canadian province. The latest addition to the Investment Caution List is CTOption, a binary options broker operating via www.ctoption.com. The…
Read moreThe British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has just updated the Investment Caution List, which features the names of companies that unlawfully target residents of the Canadian province and/or offer unqualified investments. The latest addition to the list is Binex Markets, a company which offers binary options services via https://www.binexmarkets.com. The company purports to have an…
Read moreThe British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has updated the Investment Caution List, which features the names of entities that are not registered to offer their services in the Canadian province but nevertheless do so. The latest additions to the list are four binary options brokers: ZenithOptions, InvestingCI, Option Orbit and LBinary. ZenithOptions The company operates…
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