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FCA to investigate how firms deal with risk benchmark manipulation
March 31st, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced plans to look into how firms can reduce the risk of traders manipulating key benchmarks as a central part of its Business Plan for 2014/15, which was published today. The forward-looking thematic ...
Siemens CEO Rebuked as German Business Defends Putin Partnership
March 31st, 2014
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s deputy chided Siemens AG (SIE) Chief Executive Officer Joe Kaeser for traveling to Moscow, saying German companies shouldn’t sell out European values to protect business with Russia. The conflict over Kaeser’s meeting with President Vladimir Putin ...
US stock market is rigged by high-speed traders
March 31st, 2014
The US stock market is rigged in favour of high-speed electronic trading firms, which use their advantages to extract billions from investors, according to the acclaimed author Michael Lewis. In his new book Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt, ...
Obligations arising under the Auditors and Statutory Audits
March 28th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) the Cypriot financial regulatory authority would like to inform that the obligations arising under the Auditors and Statutory Audits of Annual and Consolidated Accounts Law of 2009, Law.42(I)/2009 (the ‘Law’), as amended, for ...
FCA warning for clone company
March 28th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British financial regulatory authority, has issued a Warning informing the investors that “RBC Wealth Management/ Royal Bank of Canada Wealth Management” is a clone company. FCA highlights that the following Genuine Firms that fraudsters ...
GBP/USD stays bullish
March 28th, 2014
Pair’s Outlook Interestingly enough, EUR/USD and GBP/USD continue moving in the opposite directions, enough though generally we would expect them to exhibit strong direct correlation. Nonetheless, the Sterling, unlike its European counterpart, preserves a bullish momentum, despite the trading ...
CySec: acquisition of licence
March 27th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) the Cypriot financial regulatory authority has announced that “Nextrade Worldwide Ltd” has successfully obtained the CySec licence. Therefore, the company is now authorised to operate legally under the supervision of CySec and to ...
CySec: consultation by ESMA
March 27th, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission would like to draw the attention of Issuers with securities admitted to trading on the Cyprus Stock Exchange or any other regulated market, their shareholders and other stakeholders, to the Consultation launched by ...
SEC Probes Threat From Cyber Attacks Against Wall Street
March 27th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining the exposure of stock exchanges, brokerages and other Wall Street firms to cyber-attacks that have been called a threat to financial stability. The SEC held a roundtable discussion of those risks ...
Citic Pacific Said to Plan About $4 Billion Share Sale to Public
March 27th, 2014
Citic Pacific Ltd. plans to sell about $4 billion of shares to restore its public float after absorbing assets from state-owned parent Citic Group Corp., people with knowledge of the matter said. Citic Pacific may approach sovereign wealth funds ...
