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Firm fined by MNB for performing unauthorised tied agent activity relating to investment services for firms domiciled in Cyprus and UK
September 24th, 2015
Magyar Nemzeti Bank (MNB), the Central Bank of Hungary, has issued an announcement to inform on its decision to impose a market surveillance penalty of HUF 90 million to CFD Markets Kft. which has performed capital market tied agent ...
Dollar hits near two-week high on renewed rate hike bets
September 22nd, 2015
The dollar touched an almost two-week high against a basket of major currencies on Tuesday after comments from Federal Reserve officials revived expectations that U.S. interest rates will still be hiked later this year. The greenback has bounced back ...
ESMA updates list of authorised CCPs
September 22nd, 2015
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an update of its list of central clearinghouses (CCPs) which are authorised under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The last update concerns CME Clearing Europe which has been authorised ...
Trading Solutions provider TechFinancials announced Interim Results
September 22nd, 2015
TechFinancials, a software developer, has issued a report to announce Unaudited Interim Results for the Six Months Ended 30 June 2015. Financial Highlights Revenue increased to US$7.34m (H1 2014: US$7.16m) The core software licencing revenue increased by 33% to ...
NFA permanently barred firms from commodity trading advisor and pool operator membership
September 21st, 2015
NFA bars Burnet, Texas firm McElhannon Group from membership National Futures Association (NFA) has permanently barred the McElhannon Group, Inc. (McElhannon Group), an NFA Member commodity trading advisor, from membership and from acting as a principal of an NFA ...
Gold logs largest 1-day price gain in nearly a month
September 17th, 2015
Fall in CPI may make Fed hesitate to raise interest rates Gold futures logged their largest single-session price gain in nearly a month on Wednesday, after a U.S. consumer-price report suggested that inflation might be short of the Federal ...
ASIC seeks court orders to wind up Management Firm of Investment Schemes
September 16th, 2015
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) has issued a media release to inform that the Commission seeks court orders to wind up Avestra Asset Management. According the Commissions’s report: ASIC has commenced proceedings in the Federal Court of ...
CySec announces acquisition of CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms) licence
September 16th, 2015
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that “Alfa Forex Ltd“ has successfully obtained the CySec licence for CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms). The firm is now authorised to operate legally under the supervision of CySec ...
FXCM Completes Sale of FXCM Hong Kong to Rakuten Sec
September 15th, 2015
FXCM to Pay an Additional $33 Million Owed to Leucadia FXCM Inc. (NYSE:FXCM), a leading online provider of foreign exchange (FX) trading and related services, announced that Forex Trading, LLC, a subsidiary of FXCM Newco, LLC (“FXCM”) has completed its sale of FXCM Asia ...
FXCM Asia Now Powered by Rakuten Securities
September 14th, 2015
Uniquely Positioned to Deliver a New Level of Excellence in Online Forex Trading to Hong Kong Traders FXCM Asia Limited has issued a press release to inform that: It will continue to service local forex traders as “FXCM Asia powered ...
