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New Alliance to enhance professionalism in financial services
March 2nd, 2017
Three leading Chartered Professional Bodies have joined forces to enhance and sustain the level of professionalism and trust in the financial services sector. The Chartered Insurance Institute, the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment and the Chartered Banker Institute ...
$299 million in compensation to investors; CSA published 2016 Enforcement Report
March 2nd, 2017
Canadian Securities Regulators introduce innovative initiatives and increase collaboration to deter market misconduct The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) today released its 2016 Enforcement Report. The ninth annual report highlights actions taken across Canada to deter and sanction wrongdoing in ...
PwC under investigation for a company’s audit
March 2nd, 2017
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has commenced an investigation under the Audit Enforcement Procedure into the conduct of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) LLP, in relation to the audit of the financial statements of Redcentric plc (Redcentric) for the years ended 31 ...
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 ...
Investment in Australian fintech reached a record level
March 2nd, 2017
Investment in Australian fintech reached a record $656 million in 2016, more than triple the $185 million invested in 2015, according to a report by professional services firm KPMG. This equates to an annual average growth rate of around ...
Institutional Investors Shift Trading Desk Spending to Technology and Fixed Income
March 1st, 2017
Institutional investors in 2016 increased budgets to fixed-income trading desks in preparation for shifts in the interest-rate environment, and continued to ramp up IT budgets to keep pace with the dramatic changes technology is triggering in financial markets around ...
SEC Staff Issues Guidance Update and Investor Bulletin on Robo-Advisers
February 25th, 2017
The Securities and Exchange Commission today published information and guidance for investors and the financial services industry on the fast-growing use of robo-advisers, which are registered investment advisers that use computer algorithms to provide investment advisory services online with ...
An investment management business in UK claimed £15m in damages but awarded £2 compensation
February 24th, 2017
An investment management business which claimed £15m in damages for stolen data from departing staff has ended up with just £2 compensation after a High Court judge ruled that no injury had been sustained. The Honourable Mr Justice Leggatt ...
CySec fined €63.000 a Cyprus Investment Firm
February 23rd, 2017
The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has issued an announcement to inform investors that, at its meeting held on January 23, 2017, decided to impose a total administrative fine of €63.000 on the CIF PriorFx ...
Euclid Opportunities invest in RSRCHXchange
February 23rd, 2017
Euclid Opportunities, NEX Group’s financial technology investment business, announces today that it has made a strategic investment in RSRCHXchange, a cloud-based marketplace and MiFID II workflow solution for accessing institutional research. The investment will enable RSRCHXchange to continue to ...