Forex Weekly Look Back: Colin Murphy joins smartTrade, CMC Markets reports 63% rise in net operating income for Q1 2021 LeapRate

June 11, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: Colin Murphy joins smartTrade, CMC Markets reports 63% rise in net operating income for Q1 2021

The Swiss Exchange welcomed VanEck ETP AG as a new issuer of Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). VanEck ETP AG adds 4 new listings which makes a total of 100 ETPs and Structured Products with cryptocurrencies as underlyings are offered for trading at SIX Swiss Exchange. SIX has recorded trading volumes of CHF 4.6 billion on…

February 26, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: FXCubic names Richard Bartlett Head of Sales, Refinitiv launches Order Splitting on its trading platform

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced that its Board has appointed Annemie Rombouts as Chair of the Corporate Reporting Standing Committee (CRSC). According to the official press release, Rombouts was previously Deputy Chair of the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority. Her new appointment as chair of the CRSC is effective immediately. Moscow Exchange…

February 26, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ESMA appoints Annemie Rombouts as chair of CRSC

The appointment is for term of one year and will run until February 2022. In her new role, Rombouts will be responsible of monitoring of regulatory developments as well as establishing appropriate supervisory convergence on issues relating to accounting (under International Financial Reporting Standards – IFRS), periodic financial reporting, non-financial reporting, electronic reporting developments and…

February 19, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: Plus500 reports strong revenue for the year, Fullerton Markets adds MT5 platform

Executed over several days in the first week of February this year in order to limit market slippage, Tesla made a $1.5 billion bitcoin purchase which has now been revealed by Block to have been brokered by the cryptocurrency platform, Coinbase. Up until this announcement it had been unclear who had facilitated the significant purchase,…

February 18, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ESMA expresses concerns over social media driven share trading

ESMA’s statement is part of investor protection objective to safeguard retail investors, whose participation is key to the development of the Capital Markets Union. ESMA stated: ESMA urges retail investors to be careful when taking investment decisions based exclusively on information from social media and other unregulated online platforms, if they cannot verify the reliability…

BaFin employee suspected of Wirecard insider-trading

January 28, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

BaFin suspects employee of Wirecard insider-trading

Fabio De Masi, one of the German lawmakers driving a parliamentary inquiry into the affair, commented: “The finance ministry saw no need to take action on insider trading at the supervisory authorities at the outset of the Wirecard scandal. There is still a need to apply stricter EU rules on insider trading to German authorities.…

July 17, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: FXOpen UK acquires AMB Prime, FXCubic partners with Equiti Group for liquidity solutions

The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the global industry group for exchanges and CCPs’ Sustainability Survey reported growing investor demand for ESG disclosure. The WFE sustainability survey encapsulates the extent of the engagement of its members in Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) issues across developed and emerging markets. The survey is carried out annually. The…

July 16, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

German financial reporting system faces ESMA assessment after Wirecard collapse

The review found that some procedures in place in both FREP and BaFin could use some improvement, as well as the selection and examination of issuers. The review also identified independence and conflict of interests in FREP and cooperation issues between the two authorities. ESMA invited BaFin and the European Commission to investigate whether the…

May 06, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ESMA approves extensions of four trade repositories registrations to include SFT reporting

SFTR aims to improve the transparency of securities financing market and accordingly requires all counterparties to SFTs to report the details of any SFT they have concluded, as well as any modification or termination, to a registered trade repository (TR). The regulation also provides for the direct supervision and registration of TRs by ESMA –…

April 17, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ESMA and MAS sign a MoU on Singapore's Financial Benchmarks

Steven Maijoor, ESMA Chair, commented: The finalisation of the MoU with MAS is an important step towards the completion of the EU’s third country regime for benchmarks. Regulators around the world are committed to the accuracy and reliability of key global benchmarks and this MoU will facilitate the achievement of these objectives. Ong Chong Tee,…

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