European Union and Norway agree on free trade of agricultural products
April 11th, 2017
The European Union and Norway came to an agreement which will facilitate bilateral trade in agricultural products, allowing EU exporters to reinforce their position on their 8th largest export market for agricultural products. Commissioner for agriculture, Phil Hogan, today ...
Investigations have commenced into Barclays and Group CEO
April 10th, 2017
Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC (Barclays) announce that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have commenced investigations into: · Jes Staley, Group Chief Executive Officer of Barclays, as to his individual conduct and senior ...
ESMA reports on EU Accounting enforcement in 2016
April 10th, 2017
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its annual report on the enforcement and regulatory activities of accounting enforcers within the European Union (EU) in 2016. ESMA, in 2016, continued strengthening supervisory convergence in the area of ...
RISK MANAGEMENT OFFICER
April 7th, 2017
JOB VACANCY: RISK MANAGEMENT OFFICER Overview: Trade Finance is in our DNA. For more than 10 years, XTrade has helped global traders with access to the world’s largest and most liquid market. By offering the most innovative trading tools, hiring ...
CySec wholly withdraw the license of a Cyprus Investment Firm
April 6th, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform in relation to its decision to wholly withdraw the CIF license of CommexFx Ltd According CySec’s announcement, on its meeting of 25th July 2016, the Commission ...
Junior Compliance Officer
April 4th, 2017
Junior Compliance Officer Reference Number: JCO2017 With over 1,000,000 clients since it was founded in 2009, XM has grown to a large and well established international investment firm and has become a true industry leader. With a workforce of ...
FCA publishes near final rules on MiFID II
April 3rd, 2017
FCA publishes near final rules on MiFID II and encourages firms to submit applications for MiFID II authorisation The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published near final rules on the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive ...
CySec has issued a Circular for the Regulated Entities in Cyprus
March 31st, 2017
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued a circular to remind the Regulated Entities of the following, noting the well-known principle that ignorance of the Law is no defence. According to Article 68C of the Prevention and Suppression of ...
EU Commission blocks proposed merger between Deutsche Börse and London Stock Exchange
March 29th, 2017
The European Commission has prohibited the proposed merger between Deutsche Börse AG and London Stock Exchange Group under the EU Merger Regulation. The Commission’s investigation concluded the merger would have created a de facto monopoly in the markets for ...
Nordea to introduce a virtual colleague; robots in the banking industry
March 29th, 2017
There’s a lot of information around right now about how robots and AI are gaining traction in several industries, including our own. In the past year or so, the noise about this new technology has grown as exponentially as ...
