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SEC Charges Texas-Based Brokerage Firm With Violating Supervisory and Customer Protection Rules
March 5th, 2015
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged an Irving, Texas-based brokerage firm with violating key customer protection rules after failing to adequately supervise registered representatives who misappropriated customer funds. H.D. Vest Investment Securities agreed to settle the charges by ...
ECB issued a press release regarding interest rates
March 5th, 2015
5 March 2015 – At today’s meeting, which was held in Nicosia, the Governing Council of the ECB decided that the interest rate on the main refinancing operations and the interest rates on the marginal lending facility and the deposit ...
Companies Dropping the Ball on Risk, Compliance
March 5th, 2015
Companies are woefully unprepared to deal with the increasingly challenging risk and compliance environment, and the blitz of devastating corporate blunders witnessed in 2014 will recur, and then some, this year, says Forrester Research in a scathing new report. ...
PwC retains FTSE 100 audit lead as KPMG climbs 250 rankings
March 5th, 2015
PWC continues to dominate the FTSE 100 with 40 clients, almost double the number of nearest rival KPMG at 24, although Deloitte added a brace of new clients to its books, according to the latest statistics from Adviser Rankings. Fourth ...
HKBN Raises $750 Million in Hong Kong’s Biggest IPO This Year
March 5th, 2015
Broadband-services provider HKBN Ltd. raised US$750 million after pricing its Hong Kong initial public offering at the top end of the price range, people familiar with the situation said Thursday, making it the second-largest IPO in Asia Pacific this ...
Bank of England maintains Bank Rate at 0.5% and the size of the Asset Purchase Programme at £375 billion
March 5th, 2015
The Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee at its meeting today voted to maintain Bank Rate at 0.5%. The Committee also voted to maintain the stock of purchased assets financed by the issuance of central bank reserves at £375 billion. ...
Banks brace for Fed capital buffers inspection
March 5th, 2015
The largest U.S. banks and their foreign rivals are facing a tough two-step check-up of their financial health by the Federal Reserve, forcing the firms to get a far better grip on how they measure risk. In its annual ...
Clients of Alpari (UK) can agree account balances on the Joint Special Administrator’s Claims Portal
March 5th, 2015
The Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) has investigated the nature of Alpari (UK) Limited’s business and has concluded that valid protected claims are likely to arise. As a result, we have been working with the Joint Special Administrator’s (JSAs) ...
CFD for Shares and ETF Instruments Temporarily Set to Close Only
March 5th, 2015
Alpari wants to inform its clients that from 4th March, 2015, trading with CFD for shares and ETF instruments will be temporarily set to Close Only. Source: Alpari – CFD for Shares and ETF Instruments Temporarily Set to Close Only
Statement on EBA guidelines on remuneration policies for public consultation
March 5th, 2015
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has today published draft guidelines on remuneration policies for public consultation. These guidelines seek to clarify how firms and regulators should interpret the remuneration rules in CRD IV. These guidelines would effectively remove the proportionality principle for smaller ...
