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Financial Regulators of UK, Holland, Spain and Bulgaria warn for unauthorised investment services firms
February 18th, 2016
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of UK, the Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) of Holland, the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) of Spain and the Financial Supervision Commission (FSC) of Bulgaria issued warnings to inform investors ...
Bank of Canada Announces Future Changes to its Published Foreign Exchange Rate Data
February 17th, 2016
The Bank of Canada today announced that, effective 1 March 2017, it will make a series of changes to the number, frequency and calculation methodology of its published foreign exchange (FX) rates. Although these changes will not come into ...
Last Wave on Libor: CFTC Likely to Charge Multiple Banks for Rate Rigging
February 16th, 2016
Citigroup, HSBC are among firms targeted by regulators, according to people close to the probe American banks have so far escaped the billions of dollars in fines that have been levied by U.S. and British regulators leading a global ...
Uberima unveils social-conscious short-term loans
February 15th, 2016
Uberima, a FinTech company set up as a for-profit Social Enterprise, intends to transform how consumers are served by the financial services industry. Uberima’s first objective is to revolutionise the broken short-term and payday loan industry, by having a ...
£2.9 million to be returned to investors who had invested in a fraudulent collective scheme
February 15th, 2016
Southwark Crown Court today ordered almost £2.65 million to be returned to investors who had invested in a fraudulent collective scheme established and operated by Alex Hope. In addition, Mr Hope was made the subject of a Proceeds of ...
Japan’s Fsa Warns Against Unauthorized Optionrally, Two Other Binary Options Brokers
February 11th, 2016
Japan’s financial watchdog, the Financial Services Agency (FSA), included on Wednesday into its alert list binary options brokers LFG Investment, trading as OptionRally, and WorldOptionner Management Office and BizOption Management Office, trading as Bizoption and Worldoption, respectively. The three companies have been providing financial services in the ...
Fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory access to regulated benchmarks
February 8th, 2016
In this Policy Statement FCA reports on the main issues arising from Consultation Paper 15/18 (Fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory access to regulated benchmarks) and publish the final rules. FCA Policy Statement as published: Why are we issuing this policy ...
Tullett Prebon informs regarding proposed acquisition of ICAP’s global hybrid voice broking and information business
February 3rd, 2016
Tullett Prebon has issued an announcement to inform regarding proposed acquisition of ICAP’s global hybrid voice broking and information business. According to the company’s announcement: Further to the announcement regarding the proposed acquisition by Tullett Prebon of ICAP’s global ...
Barclays faces £700m legal action
January 29th, 2016
Barclays has confirmed it is being sued for more than £700m by deal-maker Amanda Staveley in connection with its emergency fundraising in 2008. The Financial Times reported that Ms Staveley’s firm, PCP Capital Partners, had taken legal action against ...
Royal Bank of Scotland announces Updates to the Market and Banco Santander publishes 2015 Results
January 27th, 2016
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (“RBS” or “the Group”) today announces a series of updates to the market: 1. Developments during 2015, in particular publication by the International Accounting Standards Board of its exposure draft of amendments ...
