Search Results for: Securities and Exchange Commission
CySec: acquisition of Administrative Services Providers (ASP) licence
August 1st, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that “Company Express (Cyprus) Ltd” has successfully obtained the CySec licence to operate as Administrative Services Provider (ASP). The company is now authorised to operate ...
SEC Enforcement Division Modifies Municipalities Disclosure Initiative
August 1st, 2014
The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced modifications to its Enforcement Division’s Municipalities Continuing Disclosure Cooperation (MCDC) Initiative that will provide greater opportunity for smaller municipal securities underwriter firms and municipal issuers to take advantage of the initiative. To ...
CySec: acquisition of Administrative Services Providers (ASP) licence
July 31st, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that “Asoted Services Limited” has successfully obtained the CySec licence to operate as Administrative Services Provider (ASP). The company is now authorised to operate legally ...
U.S Regulators may change rules for upstart trading
July 30th, 2014
U.S regulators may relax rules that require the fastest possible execution of securities trades, potentially helping upstart trading venue IEX Group’s plans to become a full-fledged stock exchange. IEX, described in author Michael Lewis’ book “Flash Boys: A Wall ...
UBS, Deutsche Bank questioned by U.S. regulators on trading operations
July 29th, 2014
Germany’s Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) and Switzerland’s UBS (UBSN.VX) were investigated by U.S. regulators, who are searching to find whether broker-run stock exchanges gave an unfair advantage to high-frequency traders. The investment banks, which said on Tuesday that they were ...
CySec: acquisition of CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms) licence
July 28th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has announced that “P.M. Investment Capital Limited ” has successfully obtained the CySec license for CIF (Cyprus Investment Firms). The firm is now authorised to operate legally under ...
CySec: Withdraw of CIF authorisation
July 25th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) the Cypriot financial regulatory authority, has issued an announcement that following previous announcements dated 21 February 2014 and 31 March 2014, on a meeting held on July 7, 2014 has decided to ...
UBS Wins Case Over Firing of Drug Analyst in Front-Running Probe
July 24th, 2014
A London judge said UBS AG (UBSN) had the right to fire a senior analyst who discussed rumors about a Sanofi drug with a friend at a hedge fund who may have bet against the company before publishing a ...
SEC set to end $1 a share for some money funds
July 23rd, 2014
Regulators are expected to vote Wednesday to end a longtime staple of the investment industry — the fixed $1 share price for money-market mutual funds — at least for some money funds used by big investors. The idea is ...
U.S. SEC poised to adopt reforms for money market funds
July 23rd, 2014
U.S. regulators are expected to adopt rules on Wednesday that force “prime” money market funds used by large institutions to float their share price. Proponents have suggested that moving from the current stable $1 per share net asset value ...