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Cryptocurrency Exchange Gatecoin confirms that lost $2 Mln in Hot Wallet Breach
May 16th, 2016
Gatecoin, the Hong Kong-based regulated and secure financial institution for blockchain assets has issued an official statement regarding the breach the firm experienced and lost 15% of our crypto-asset deposits. Below is the Gatecoin statement as it was published: ...
CFTC Charges Two Binary Options Firms with Fraud, Illegal Off-Exchange Activity, and Operating in an Unregistered Capacity
March 16th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that a federal district court has unsealed a civil Complaint that the CFTC filed with the Northern District of Illinois on February 2, 2016, against two foreign web-based binary options ...
Deutsche Börse AG and London Stock Exchange Group plc agree to industry-defining merger
March 16th, 2016
Highly complementary combination across divisions and asset classes which accelerates LSEG and DBAG’s respective growth strategies and results in a significantly enhanced product offering for customers. Through its enhanced position in the global market infrastructure sector, well placed to ...
Bank of Canada Announces Future Changes to its Published Foreign Exchange Rate Data
February 17th, 2016
The Bank of Canada today announced that, effective 1 March 2017, it will make a series of changes to the number, frequency and calculation methodology of its published foreign exchange (FX) rates. Although these changes will not come into ...
CFTC Issues an Exemption to the Korea Exchange Permitting Designated Korea Exchange Members to Deal Directly with U.S. Customers
February 9th, 2016
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Order to the Korea Exchange (KRX) permitting certain KRX Members to solicit and accept orders and in connection therewith, accept funds directly from U.S. customers for trading on KRX without ...
FCA:Unauthorised Forex (FX) trading and brokerage firms
January 8th, 2016
FCA UK has issued an announcement to inform public and investors in relation to unauthorised Forex trading and brokerage firms. FCA points out that all firms offering their investment and trading services in UK must be authorised by the ...
Lloyds under investigation by FCA over possible market rigging
January 7th, 2016
Reports say investigation into gilts trading is not industry-wide despite recent criticism of regulator for dropping review into culture at major banks The City regulator is investigating whether traders at Lloyds Banking Group manipulated the price of government bonds, in a ...
SFC signs MoU with CFTC to enhance supervision of Cross-Border Regulated Entities
December 29th, 2015
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regarding cooperation and the exchange of information in the supervision and oversight of regulated entities that operate ...
SFC reprimands and fines three JP Morgan entities a sum of $30 million for regulatory breaches
December 16th, 2015
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded J.P. Morgan Broking (Hong Kong) Limited (JPMBHK), J.P. Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Limited (JPMSAP) and J.P. Morgan Securities (Far East) Limited (JPMSFE) (collectively “JP Morgan”), and fined them $15 million, $12 ...
FCA: New Financial Services Register
September 8th, 2015
A new Financial Services Register makes it easier to find information on firms, individuals and other bodies that are, or have been, regulated by the PRA and/or the FCA. The new Register has one search field to help you find a ...