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SETL and Deloitte joined forces to produce a contactless payments card
November 15th, 2016
London-based fintech company SETL and global auditing firm Deloitte DLTE.UL have joined forces to produce a contactless card that enables retail payments to be processed and settled almost instantly by the means of blockchain technology. The payment card, which ...
Playtech buys CHF for $120m
November 14th, 2016
Playtech (LSE: PTEC) today announces it has agreed to acquire Consolidated Financial Holdings A/S (“CFH”), a technology company with products including a leading Straight Through Processing (“STP”) brokerage which provides retail brokers with multi-asset execution, prime brokerage services, liquidity ...
Former Equity Portfolio Manager at BlackRock pleads guilty to insider dealing
November 3rd, 2016
Mark Lyttleton, a former Equity Portfolio Manager at BlackRock, has today pleaded guilty to two counts of insider dealing. He will be sentenced on 21 December 2016. Mr Lyttleton admitted dealing on the basis of insider information he obtained ...
Tesco hit with £100m lawsuit over accounting scandal
November 1st, 2016
More than 125 large investment funds have filed a £100 million-plus legal claim against Tesco over the 2014 accounting scandal which saw its profits inflated by £326m. Bentham Europe, the London-based litigation firm fronting the claim, said that institutional ...
AMF and the AFG are looking to turn Paris into a leading financial centre
October 28th, 2016
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) and the Association Française de la Gestion Financière (the French Asset Management Association – AFG) have produced a report on the outcome of the FROG working group’s and on the implementation of its ...
Plus500 reports a revenue increase of 14% at $236.3m
October 24th, 2016
Plus500, an online service provider for retail customers to trade CFDs internationally, has published a trading update for the three and nine months ended 30 September 2016. In the nine months ended 30 September 2016, revenue was $236.3m an ...
Fixed FX? Now for the rest of the front office
October 16th, 2016
The forex fines were big headlines back in 2014. Since then, the FCA, and firms themselves, have done a huge amount to fix ineffective controls and ensure that FX traders couldn’t behave in a way that would damage the ...
CFTC Signs MOU with UK Financial Conduct Authority to Enhance Supervision of Cross-Border Regulated Firms
October 7th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that CFTC Chairman Timothy Massad and Andrew Bailey, Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding cooperation and the exchange of information in ...
OneCoin official response to the recent statement of the Financial Conduct Authority
September 29th, 2016
OneCoin is disappointed that the FCA has issued a statement without having first contacted the company. OneCoin has not been contacted by the City of London Police. No allegations of any wrongdoing have been put to OneCoin and the ...
Former BlackRock fund manager charged with insider dealing in UK
September 29th, 2016
Mark Lyttleton, a former fund manager at the UK division of asset manager BlackRock Inc , has been charged with insider dealing by Britain’s markets regulator. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said on Thursday it had charged 45-year-old Lyttleton ...
