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Turkey revokes the licence of a director at one of the country’s largest brokerage firms
July 28th, 2016
Turkey’s financial regulator has cancelled the licence of a research director at one of the country’s largest brokerage firms after his report on the failed July 15 coup. In a bulletin on its website, the Capital Markets Board (CMB) said the ...
KCG agrees to acquire the independent agency broker and execution specialist Neonet
July 28th, 2016
KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) (“KCG”) announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Neonet Securities AB (“Neonet”), an independent agency broker and execution specialist based in Stockholm, Sweden from its shareholders, Hay Tor Capital, KAS ...
NYC Audit Firm to pay penalty for failing to spot fraud in financial statements of a public company
July 25th, 2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission suspended an accountant for conducting a faulty audit of the financial statements of a public company that was committing fraud, and the firm where he was a partner at the time has been prohibited from ...
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 ...
KBW and Nasdaq Launch Financial Technology Index
July 20th, 2016
Keefe Bruyette & Woods (KBW), a Stifel company (NYSE:SF), and Nasdaq (NASDAQ:NDAQ) today announced the launch of the KBW Nasdaq Financial Technology Index (Ticker: KFTX), a preeminent index designed to precisely track the performance of those companies that leverage ...
Mazars to acquire financial modelling consultancy and training provider
July 14th, 2016
Realises the ambition to be the world leader in financial modelling, model audit and related training services for the infrastructure finance sector. Creates an integrated team of over 120 professionals, servicing clients around the world, from regional hubs in ...
ESMA consults on proposed Central Clearing delay for small financial counterparties
July 14th, 2016
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published today a consultation paper proposing to change the phase-in period for central clearing of OTC derivatives applicable to financial counterparties with a limited volume of derivatives activity under the European Market Infrastructure ...
Euronext to offer MiFID II-compliant Trade Publication and Transaction Reporting Services
July 13th, 2016
Euronext announced it will enhance its Trade Publication and Transaction Reporting Servicesto allow investment firms to meet the new regulatory requirements specified under MiFID II. MiFID II comes into effect in January 2018 with the aim of improving the ...
Risk On/Risk Off: What Schizophrenic Markets Are Telling Us
July 11th, 2016
These trends cannot be reversed with yet another rate cut or another “whatever it takes” announcement. In the conventional investment perspective, risk-on assets (i.e. investments with higher risks and higher potential returns) such as stocks are on a see-saw ...
One of the worst markets hit in the last two-weeks has been Italian banks
July 6th, 2016
While most of the post-Brexit headlines have centred on the fall in value of sterling and the surge of interest in safe havens such as gold and government bonds, one of the worst markets hit in the last two-weeks has been Italian banks. ...
