Category: forex news

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded Mason Securities Limited (MSL), formerly known as GuocoCapital Limited (GCL), and fined it $3.6 million for failing to ensure proper certification of client identity before approving account opening and have in place controls for the identification of third party deposits, contrary to anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist…

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The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) has published the latest edition of its Consumer Investments Monitor. The report shows that, in 2021, the number of investing households increased by 12% to 1.9 million. During the past year, the need for higher returns was the primary reason to start investing. The majority have chosen…

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Fidelity Institutional, the division of Fidelity Investments dedicated to providing technology, solutions and insights to wealth management firms and institutions, announced today that Rohit Mahna has been named Head of Client Growth, effective January 2022. Mr Mahna joins Fidelity from Salesforce, where he was senior vice president and general manager of the company’s Global Financial…

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Electronic brokerage Interactive Brokers has updated its TWS platform, with the latest (beta) version of the solution offering an enhanced Events Calendar. The redesigned Events Calendar can help traders stay on top of current and upcoming economic and corporate events for companies around the globe. The latest addition – detailed IPO data from Renaissance Capital…

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The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued a Policy Statement relating to its decision to further amend Directive 87-04, in an effort to ensure the smooth transition of UK groups operating under the Temporary Permissions Regime (TPR), until they establish a physical presence in Cyprus. Let’s recall that in December 2020, CySEC introduced…

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Interdealer broker TP ICAP today provided an update on security vulnerability. The company says its security team is investigating the Log4j Java library remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), also known as Log4Shell. This vulnerability was disclosed by the Apache Log4j project on Thursday 9 December, 2021. If exploited, it could potentially allow a remote attacker…

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Electronic trading major IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) announces that it has received notification that Tom Sosnoff, a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibilities (PDMR), transferred a total of 1,108,578 ordinary shares of 0.005p each on 9 December 2021, as a gift to trusts. The transfer was for estate planning purposes and the lock up arrangements on…

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Israeli business news source Calcalist is reporting that the going-public plan for Retail FX, CFDs, and crypto broker eToro via a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Fintech Acquisition Corp V (NASDAQ:FTCVU) is in trouble – at least in its current format. According to Calcalist, the eToro-SPAC deal is unlikely to be completed in…

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National Westminster Bank Plc (NatWest) was today fined £264,772,619.95 following convictions for three offences of failing to comply with money laundering regulations. Mrs Justice Cockerill, the sentencing judge at Southwark Crown Court, today said: ‘….it must be borne in mind that although in no way complicit in the money laundering which took place, the Bank…

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There have been rumors circulating in the FX world the past few days about a targeted hack attack against FX broker tech, liquidity, and hosting provider PrimeXM, specifically targeting its MT4/5 hosted servers. PrimeXM provides dedicated MT4/5 hosting and connectivity services for quite a number of FX and CFD brokers. The rumors have included multiple…

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