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FCA fires warning shot at spread betting firms
February 3rd, 2016
Britain’s financial regulator warned spread betting firms on Tuesday to comply with its rules after a survey found poor practices that risk leaving customers unfairly treated. The Financial Conduct Authority published on Tuesday a “Dear CEO” letter sent to ...
Asia markets trade lower, focus on oil, earnings and central banks
February 2nd, 2016
Asia markets closed mostly lower on Tuesday, weighed by declines in the energy sector as oil prices continued to tumble. Japan’s Nikkei 225 lost 114.55 points, or 0.64 percent, to close down at 17,750.68, while South Korea’s Kospi slipped ...
Barclays Among Bidders For TD Direct Broker
February 1st, 2016
Barclays has emerged as a surprise potential buyer of TD Direct Investing as its Canadian owner explores a sale, Sky News learns. Barclays has tabled an offer to buy TD Direct Investing, one of the UK’s biggest retail stockbroking ...
Deloitte UK launches a new regulatory and investor reporting managed service
February 1st, 2016
Deloitte UK launches Prisma, a new regulatory and investor reporting managed service The service supports global regulatory requirements, including new PRIIPs regulation. Deloitte, the business advisory firm, today launches Prisma, which helps investment managers, banks and insurance firms to ...
CySec announced a new CIF license
January 28th, 2016
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the financial regulatory authority of Cyprus, has announced that “AVUS CAPITAL CY LTD“ has successfully obtained the CySec licence for CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms). The firm is now authorised to operate legally under the supervision of ...
Toshiba replaced EY with a new auditor
January 28th, 2016
Toshiba picks PwC as auditor after accounting scandal Toshiba Corp said on Wednesday it had chosen PricewaterhouseCoopers Aarata as its auditor from the business year starting April 1, replacing Ernst & Young’s local affiliate after a debilitating accounting scandal ...
Poland may water down FX loans conversion plan if costs too high
January 27th, 2016
A Polish minister signalled on Wednesday the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party may water down the president’s plan to convert Swiss franc mortgages into zlotys if it is too expensive for banks. President Andrzej Duda has set out ...
EU says to monitor, not regulate ‘hyped’ virtual currencies
January 26th, 2016
The European Union will monitor rather than regulate “hyped” virtual currencies for now, because too little is known to justify new rules beyond reining in specific risks like money-laundering, the body’s executive said on Monday. The world’s 600 virtual ...
Oil rout, Fed-ticipation hurts Asia stocks; China leads losses
January 26th, 2016
Asian equities came under pressure on Tuesday from a renewed selloff in oil overnight, ahead of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decision on Thursday. U.S. crude fell below $30 a barrel after sliding as much as 7 percent on ...
Independent broker-dealers facing a number of looming regulatory changes
January 25th, 2016
Coming 12 to 24 months could divide the industry into winners and losers — firms that will be able to adapt, and those that might fall by the wayside Independent broker-dealers are facing a number of regulatory changes over ...
