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Online brokerage Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) has announced that Steve Quirk is joining the company, from TD Ameritrade. At Robinhood Markets Steve Quirk will be acting as Chief Brokerage Officer to oversee its broker-dealers, Robinhood Financial and Robinhood Securities, effective January 10, 2022. As Robinhood’s first-ever Chief Brokerage Officer, Steve will help scale products and services efficiently…

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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that it obtained final judgments against a former Boston, Massachusetts resident and his company, whom the SEC previously charged with defrauding investors by promising them high returns on investments in startup companies, while in reality using large sums of investor money to pay earlier investors…

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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has renewed its motion for default judgment against Karina Chairez, a high-level promoter of the AirBit Club investment scheme. This becomes clear from documents submitted by the regulator on January 5, 2022. According to the proposed judgment, the SEC requests that the New York Southern District Court…

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Australia based Retail FX and CFDs broker Blueberry Markets has announced that it has signed a partnership deal with trading signals provider Signal Centre. As part of the strategic partnership Signal Centre will provide daily content from its team of experienced analysts to Blueberry Markets’ community of 30,000 traders across their MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and…

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Online trading company Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) today announced granting of shares under incentives plan to a number of its directors, including Group CEO David Zruia. On December 31, 2021, Plus500 issued a total of 107,387 ordinary shares of NIS 0.01 out of the Ordinary Shares held in treasury, as follows: 5,780 Ordinary Shares to certain…

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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has finalised the operational model for non-Hong Kong Dollar (HKD) denominated futures and options trading and clearing services on Hong Kong public holidays. HKEX received 55 responses from a wide range of market participants for its consultation paper, with strong support on the launch of Derivatives Holiday Trading…

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Pending SEC approval, The Nasdaq Stock Market plans to offer an Extended Trading Close (ETC), providing participants an additional opportunity to access liquidity in Nasdaq-listed securities at the Nasdaq Official Closing Price (as determined by the Closing Cross) for a limited period of time following the conclusion of the Nasdaq Closing Cross. Nasdaq will accept…

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Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, confirmed today that it has invested $6.35 million in KRM22 plc, a technology and software investment company that focuses on risk management for capital markets. This is the first investment TT has made since its acquisition by 7RIDGE…

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AEGIS Hedging Solutions announced today that it has acquired Emission Advisors, a recognized leader in the environmental markets. Emission Advisors works with companies across multiple sectors to understand, purchase, sell, and retire voluntary and compliance offsets in multiple environmental markets, such as Voluntary Carbon Offsets and Emission Reduction Credits (ERCs). Bryan Sansbury, Chairman and CEO…

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France’s Financial Markets Authority (AMF) today outlined its supervisory priorities for 2022. The AMF has at its disposal a number of supervisory tools, ranging from ongoing monitoring to specific inspections. About 60 inspections will be performed in 2022. They will break down almost equally between two types of inspections which have different objectives: Regular inspections…

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