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SFC withdraws Restriction Notice issued to a broker in connection with client’s suspected insider dealing
February 14th, 2017
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has withdrawn the Restriction Notice issued to Kingsway Financial Services Group Limited (KFS) in connection with a client account that holds proceeds of suspected insider dealing in the shares of TeleEye Holdings Limited ...
Swiss voters rejected corporate tax reforms
February 14th, 2017
The European Commission is disappointed that Swiss voters rejected plans to overhaul corporate taxes and will consult with European Union governments on how to proceed, the EU tax commissioner Pierre Moscovici said on Monday. Voters on Sunday blocked the ...
Oil rose on OPEC-led cuts, but market remains range-bound
February 14th, 2017
Oil rose on Tuesday, supported by an OPEC-led effort to cut output, but rising production elsewhere kept prices within the narrow range that has contained them so far this year. Brent crude futures LCOc1, the international benchmark for oil ...
CySec announced for the Regulatory Obligations of CIFs when providing binary options
February 13th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has today published a consultation paper regarding its proposed reforms to the regulatory framework governing the provision of investment services in binary options by firms under its supervision (“Cyprus Investment Firms” or “CIFs”). ...
What Kuwait forecast for oil prices
February 13th, 2017
Kuwait says oil prices to rise with higher level of output deal compliance Kuwaiti oil minister Essam Al Marzouq said on Monday current oil prices were good and are expected to rise with higher compliance to an output reduction ...
The Securities and Futures Commission bans former employee of HSBC for life
February 13th, 2017
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has banned Ms Li Lee, a former employee of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited (HSBC), from re-entering the industry for life following her criminal convictions (Note 1). The District Court earlier ...
Dutch Bank and FinTech firm develop Robo-Accountant
February 13th, 2017
ABN Amro has teamed up with InvoiceSharing to launch a new solution for SMEs. The system is based around giving users 25/7 insight into their accounts and allowing them to assess their capital needs in advance. SMEs with an ...
Founders of Panama Law Firm Mossack Fonseca arrested
February 13th, 2017
Police in Panama arrested the founders of Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal, on money laundering charges after authorities raided the firm’s headquarters as part of investigations into Brazil’s largest-ever bribery scandal. ...
SEC is freezing brokerage accounts holding more than $29 million in illegal profits
February 13th, 2017
SEC Charges Chinese Citizens Who Reaped Massive Profits From Insider Trading on Comcast-Dreamworks Acquisition Obtains Court Order Freezing More Than $29 Million in U.S. Accounts The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it obtained an emergency court order freezing brokerage ...
Oil prices slip back; traders await OPEC report
February 13th, 2017
Oil prices slip back; traders await OPEC report Crude futures slipped on Monday as investors booked profits ahead of a key data that would indicate the progress of an ongoing multi-country effort to cut back oil production. “Traders will ...
