Taskize, a provider of inter-company workflow to the financial services industry, today announced the appointment of Philip Slavin as Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 November. Mr Slavin succeeds John O’Hara who co-founded the firm with Mr Slavin in 2012. Mr O’Hara will remain on the Board as a Strategic Advisor. Philip Slavin
Shiba Inu is now available on eToro. Designed as a cryptoasset to support a fan-favorite breed, SHIB is one of the first cryptos to actually give back to charity. Unlike $BTC’s limited supply, SHIB has a circulating supply of one quadrillion, and it is represented on eToro as “Shiba (in millions)”, which is a “lot”…
Standard Chartered and Atome Financial have announced a 10-year multi-product strategic partnership, combining their strengths in finance and technology to deliver a wide range of financial services to consumers and merchants across key markets in Asia. Atome Financial is a business unit under Advance Intelligence Group, which recently closed a USD 400M+ Series D financing…
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The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) of New Zealand today issued new guidance on how firms should be advertising financial products. The regulator consulted on proposed guidance on advertising last year. The final guidance, published today, reflects feedback from consultation and sets out three key principles for organisations to consider when advertising financial products or services:…
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has written to CEOs of public companies, large proprietary companies and trustees of registrable superannuation entities (RSEs) urging them to review their whistleblower policies to ensure they comply with the law. Since 1 January 2020, the Corporations Act 2001 (Corporations Act) has required public companies, large proprietary companies,…
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About a fortnight after the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) brought insider trading charges against former Goldman compliance analyst Jose Luis Casero Sanchez, the regulator has warned the Court that the defendants in this case are dissipating assets in violation of Court orders. Let’s recall that the lawsuit was launched on September 29,…
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Law enforcement and judicial authorities from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, the Netherlands and Ukraine, supported by Europol and Eurojust, teamed up against an organised crime group involved in binary options fraud. The group was behind an online trading platform for financial services with binary options. Europol set up an Operational Task Force to support the cross-border…
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Interdealer broker TP ICAP Group plc (LON:TCAP) today announced it will release its Q3 trading statement on November 2, 2021. The Group says it has benefited from an improved Q3 trading environment. This has helped to narrow the gap in year-to-date revenue versus the prior year and supports TP ICAP’s full year revenue guidance outlined…
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The following is a guest editorial courtesy of Panda Trading Systems. A New Trend Emerges It’s an often-repeated myth in online trading that technology providers are useful for start-ups and small to medium firms, but that big brokers don’t require them because they do everything in-house. It’s said that they prefer to develop proprietary solutions…
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Shortly after BTIG responded to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) complaint alleging short selling rules violations, the regulator has made it clear that it disagrees with the defenses outlined by the company. According to documents filed by the SEC in the New York Southern District Court, the regulator wants two of BTIG’s affirmative defenses…
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