Search Results for: Securities and Futures Commission
OTC Clear Receives Regulatory Approval to Clear USD/CNH Cross Currency Swaps
July 22nd, 2016
OTC Clearing Hong Kong Limited (OTC Clear), a subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), announces that the Securities and Futures Commission has granted approval of its clearing services for cross currency swaps. OTC Clear expects to launch ...
Regulators from around the world issued warnings for unauthorised financial services companies
July 21st, 2016
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of UK, the Central Bank of Ireland, the Sweden’s regulator Finansinspektionen, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) of Luxembourg, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), the Spanish Comisión Nacional del Mercado ...
Financial regulators from around the world warn for unauthorised financial services companies
May 24th, 2016
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of UK, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong, the Jersey Financial Services Commission (FSC), the Financial Services Authority (MFSA) of Malta and the Comision Nacional del Mercado De Valores (CNMV) of Spain issued ...
Number of Hong Kong brokerage firms reach a 20-year high
May 9th, 2016
Number of brokers amounted to 604 but the top 100 already hold 94.6 per cent of all trading The number of the stock brokers in Hong Kong has risen to a 20-year high. It shows the summer market rout ...
Hong Kong: Two solicitors engaged in fraud
January 18th, 2016
Court finds two solicitors engaged in insider dealing and fraud or deception The Court of First Instance today found that two solicitors, Mr Eric Lee Kwok Wa and Ms Betty Young Bik Fung, and Eric Lee’s sister, Ms Patsy ...
SFC signs MoU with CFTC to enhance supervision of Cross-Border Regulated Entities
December 29th, 2015
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regarding cooperation and the exchange of information in the supervision and oversight of regulated entities that operate ...
Brokers in push for mutual funds to be added on HKEx platform
November 19th, 2015
Mutual fund trading platform would bolster Hong Kong as a hub for financial products, brokers say Brokers have urged the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing to launch a trading platform targeted at listed mutual fund products. The Hong Kong ...
SFC Hong Kong warns for Binary Options provider Tooptions
October 29th, 2015
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) Hong Kong, has issued today a warning to inform investors and public for an unlicensed entity with the name HongKong Tooptions Limited. SFC noted that the address of the enity is Unit 17, ...
SFC warns on unlicensed entity Wells Fargo Global Investments (Hong Kong) Limited
September 10th, 2015
Regulatory Commission of Hong Kong, Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), has issued a warning to inform public for an unlicensed entity with the name Wells Fargo Global Investments (Hong Kong) Company Limited. The address of the above company and ...
SFC regulator of Hong Kong warns on binary options broker OptionRally
September 7th, 2015
Securities and Futures Commission, the Financial Regulator of Hong Kong, keeps on its website an Alert List that includes firms that are not licensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong ...