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EU Authority fines five Banks for €2.48 million in total
July 24th, 2018
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has fined Danske Bank, Nordea Bank, SEB, Svenska Handelsbanken and Swedbank €495,000 each and issued five public notices for negligently breaching the Credit Rating Agencies Regulation (CRAR). ESMA found that the five ...
AMF reports websites offering crypto derivatives without authorisation
July 10th, 2018
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR) would like to warn the public about a number of unauthorised online investment services in France for derivatives whose underlyings include crypto assets. ...
Closet index funds: The AMF proposes an alternative approach to those currently used in Europe
July 5th, 2018
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) analysed nearly 800 French funds using a method based on fund return and market data, which enables more funds to be examined than was previously possible. This approach does not relieve the regulator ...
Toshiba says U.S. SEC completes accounting probe, no penalty
June 25th, 2018
Japan’s Toshiba Corp on Monday said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) had completed an investigation of its past accounting practices without fining the company. “We understand that all SEC investigations regarding our accounting have been completed,” a ...
Oil, the petrodollar, and the next emerging market crisis
June 21st, 2018
Oil prices are up over the past year, which is bad if you’re, say, a developing country that imports a lot of the stuff. But the US dollar (aka the petrodollar) is also up, which compounds the problem because ...
How has the European equity market responded and performed in the wake of MiFID II?; AMF Chairman
May 22nd, 2018
Robert Ophèle, the Chairman of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) that regulates participants and products in France’s financial markets, gave a speech during TradeTech Europe 2018 – 25 April 2018 about “How has the European equity market responded ...
CySEC released a statement of new rules governing derivatives on virtual currencies
May 16th, 2018
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued a statement to inform about new rules when providing investment services in relation to derivatives on virtual currencies. According the statement: Further to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) ...
Bitcoin sees Wall Street warm to trading virtual currency
May 10th, 2018
Some of the biggest names on Wall Street are warming up to Bitcoin, a virtual currency that for nearly a decade has been consigned to the unregulated fringes of the financial world. The parent company of the New York ...
Top Islamic bank uncovered internal fraud worth millions
April 30th, 2018
Abu Dhabi’s Al Hilal Bank has uncovered internal fraud as employees helped to steal over $170 million, most now retrieved. Al Hilal Bank PJSC, a top Islamic bank headquartered in Abu Dhabi, has uncovered internal fraud worth more than ...
Visa, MasterCard and AmEx propose a new deal for online payments
April 23rd, 2018
The way you pay for things with credit cards or debit cards at bricks-and-mortar retailers is a familiar, standardized process. There have been minor tweaks, like the recent adoption of chip cards or getting rid of signatures, but the ...
