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Dubai Financial Services Authority published FinTech consultation paper
March 7th, 2017
The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) is enhancing its contribution to Dubai’s position as the region’s leading hub for innovation through the publication of a new FinTech consultation paper today. The paper is the third in a series, setting ...
OneStopBrokers welcomes ECommPay on the most comprehensive financial Directory
March 3rd, 2017
OneStopBrokers would like to welcome the innovative payment solutions provider ECommPay on the OneStopBrokers Directory. About ECommPay ECommPay is one of the leading international companies offering modern individual payment solutions. The company develops simple solutions in payment processing with ...
Unauthorised financial services companies around the world are reported
February 23rd, 2017
The supervisory authorities of the United Kingdom (Financial Conduct Authority – FCA), Spain (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores – CNMV), Ireland (Central Bank of Ireland), Austria (Financial Market Authority – FMA), Switzerland (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority – ...
FMA updates Strategic Risk Outlook and sets course for new era in conduct regulation
February 15th, 2017
Today the Financial Markets Authority published its updated Strategic Risk Outlook (SRO). This is a foundation FMA document and sets out how the regulator identifies and prioritises the key risks to its overall objective of fair, efficient and transparent ...
Financial regulators of UK (FCA) and Hong Kong (HKMA) agree on FinTech collaboration
December 8th, 2016
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) have entered into a Co-operation Agreement (Agreement) to foster collaboration between the two regulatory authorities in promoting financial innovation. According to the Agreement, the FCA and the ...
Plus500: FCA’s topics will have a material operational and financial impact on the UK regulated subsidiary
December 6th, 2016
Plus500, a leading online service provider for retail customers to trade CFDs internationally, notes the movement in its share price following the publication on 6 December 2016 by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) of a note regarding enhancing the ...
ASIC bans former AMP Financial Planning representative from providing financial services for eight years
November 18th, 2016
ASIC has banned Mr James Edward McCarthy, a financial adviser from South Australia, from providing financial services until 14 November 2024. Mr McCarthy is the sole director of McCarthy Financial Solutions Pty Ltd and was an authorised representative of ...
MAS, R3 and Financial Institutions experimenting with Blockchain Technology
November 16th, 2016
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today announced that it is partnering R3, a Blockchain technology company, and a consortium of financial institutions on a proof-of-concept project to conduct inter-bank payments using Blockchain technology. This project could potentially avail ...
FCA UK warns for a clone of a financial services group
November 14th, 2016
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning to inform that fraudsters are using the details of firms the FCA authorises to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. This is what FCA calls a ...
R3 partners with Monetary Authority of Singapore to launch Asia Blockchain Centre of Excellence
November 9th, 2016
Financial innovation firm R3 has collaborated with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to launch its first dedicated distributed ledger technology (DLT) Center of Excellence in Asia as it continues to expand its presence in the region. As Singapore’s ...
