Why free trade and open markets in financial services matter; Andrew Bailey, FCA Chief Executive
July 11th, 2017
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the conduct regulator for financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, has released a speech by Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive of the FCA, at Reuters Newsmaker event. According the release: Note: this ...
CPMI and IOSCO issue report on the recovery of financial market infrastructures
October 16th, 2014
The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have published a report entitled Recovery of financial market infrastructures. The report provides guidance to financial market infrastructures (FMIs) such as central counterparties ...
FSB warns regarding an online trading company
October 13th, 2015
The Financial Services Board (FSB), an independent institution established by statute to oversee South African non-banking financial services industry, warns the public to act with caution when dealing with Broker Capital, an entity which is not authorised in terms of the Financial ...
FSB warns the public against Go Direct Stock Market Investments
August 26th, 2015
The Financial Services Board (FSB) warns the public against conducting financial services business with Go Direct Stock Market Investments (GDSMI), Mr Mzoxolo Bezu and/or Mr Mbuso Mthethwa. GDSMI, Bezu and Mthethwa are not authorised to render financial services and ...
IronFX announces new global office
February 3rd, 2015
IronFX Global issued a press release informing that: IronFX Global (South Africa) Pty Ltd, has announced that its new landmark global office in Johannesburg, South Africa, is now open for business. With this global office in the economic and ...
Brothers slammed for forex ‘gamble’
November 10th, 2014
Two financial advisers and a company of which they are both directors have been ordered to repay a couple who lost more than R700 000, because they invested most of their savings – including the proceeds from the sale ...
IronFX announces new landmark global office in South Africa
July 23rd, 2014
IronFX Global has announced the opening of a new landmark global office in the Republic of South Africa, which is fully licensed by the Financial Services Board (FSB) as a Financial Services Provider (FSP). IronFX Global (South Africa) Pty ...
The Russian “Laundromat” exposed; how the complex money laundering scheme worked
March 23rd, 2017
Three years after the “Laundromat” was exposed as a criminal financial vehicle to move vast sums of money out of Russia, journalists now know how the complex scheme worked – including who ended up with the $20.8 billion and ...
ICAP’s EBS eFix Matching meets FX market’s need for auditable electronic fix execution
May 18th, 2015
ICAP plc (IAP.L), a leading markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, reports today on the progress of its eFix Matching solution one year after launch. The result of a collaboration between EBS, ICAP’s ...
Market Regulation
February 4th, 2014
A “regulated market” or “organized market” as defined by Directive 2004/39/EC means the multilateral system managed or operated by a market operator and which brings together or facilitates the bringing together of multiple third-party buying or/and selling interests in ...
