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AMF and SIGNAL SPAM sign investor protection partnership agreement
March 30th, 2017
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is working on various initiatives aimed at offering better protection for investors. One such initiative is today’s signature of a partnership agreement with Signal Spam, the French national spam reporting platform. Signal Spam ...
The conduct regulator of UK warns about Prime FX
March 28th, 2017
The conduct regulator for financial services firms and financial markets in the UK, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has issued a press release to inform that the below firm has been providing financial services or products in the UK ...
E-commerce: EU-wide rules to protect consumers better and stop rogue traders
March 23rd, 2017
New powers for national authorities to check whether e-commerce websites geo-block consumers, track down rogue traders or even, subject to safeguards inserted by MEPs, order that websites hosting scams be shut down, were approved by the Internal Market and ...
Financial fraud costing UK £2 million a day
March 19th, 2017
In 2016, the UK lost £2 million each day as a result of financial fraud, according to official figures released by Financial Fraud Action UK (FFA UK) today (16th March 2017). The figures show the overall scale of financial ...
FINRA warns for Binary Options Follow-Up Schemes
March 18th, 2017
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today issued an Investor Alert warning anyone involved in binary options trading through unregistered non-U.S. companies to be on guard for a one-two punch: losses followed up by potentially fraudulent pitches to help ...
What FBI do to combat Binary Options fraud
March 16th, 2017
Stock options. It’s a pretty common investment term meaning, in general, that one party sells or offers to another party the opportunity to invest by buying a particular stock at an agreed upon price within a certain period of ...
FCA UK warns for unauthorised financial services firm
March 14th, 2017
The FCA UK has issued a press release to inform that the below firm has been providing financial services or products in the UK without its authorisation. Almost all firms and individuals offering, promoting or selling financial services or ...
CySec warns regarding individuals impersonating CySec representatives
March 8th, 2017
Following up on its announcements dated 27 November 2015, 10 June 2016 and 19 October 2016 and 17 November 2016, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) would like to remind investors and the general public of the following: ...
MFSA Mallta warns for CFDs, Forex, Binary Options and other speculative products
March 6th, 2017
Notice addressed to the general public, namely to retail investors, regarding the sale of speculative products and their associated risks. The Malta Financial Services Authority (“MFSA”) wishes to once ...
Just Three things investors must know
March 2nd, 2017
What investors must know when they are ready to invest? Investors purchase an asset or item that they believe and hope that it will generate income for them. From an economic view, investments are not for consumed today but ...
