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Want to Get a Hold on Binary Options Fraud? Go After the Banks

  • Regulatory authorities practically never apply adequate sanctions against banks.
Thursday, 04/08/2016 | 09:19 GMT by Guest Contributors
Analysis

Analysis: Binary and FX Brokers Widely Abused French Market Before Advertising Ban

  • A day after the introduction of the ban on binary options and forex advertising in France we take a look at what went wrong.
Tuesday, 02/08/2016 | 15:29 GMT by Victor Golovtchenko
Regulation

Breaking: French Authorities to Ban Forex and Binary Options Advertisement

  • Brokerages which are offering leverage higher than 1:20 are likely to be limited from advertising via any digital media.
Monday, 01/08/2016 | 11:18 GMT by Victor Golovtchenko
Brokers

Exclusive: 24Option Banned from Operating in France

  • French watchdog bans 24Option after the broker failed to comply with certain professional obligations.
Monday, 01/08/2016 | 07:30 GMT by Dan Magen
Regulation

AMF Lays Out 2016 Risk Mapping Initiative After Brexit Stirs Markets

  • The update constitutes the AMF’s tenth risk mapping segment, framed in large part against the backdrop of the Brexit vote.
Friday, 08/07/2016 | 09:23 GMT by Jeff Patterson
Regulation

France's AMF Adds 16 Binary Options Websites to its Warning List

  • The AMF warns of another 16 unauthorised binary options firms in France.
Friday, 17/06/2016 | 17:57 GMT by Steven Hatzakis
Executive Moves

Trading Places: New Hires at OANDA, Fastmatch and eToro

  • Keep up with the latest executive moves.
Sunday, 05/06/2016 | 07:16 GMT by Jeff Patterson
Executive Moves

France’s AMF Appoints Franck Guiader to Head New Fintech Regulatory Division

  • AMF's Fintech, Innovation and Competitiveness (FIC) division opens June 1st.
Monday, 30/05/2016 | 18:09 GMT by Steven Hatzakis
Regulation

French Regulator Warns Against Four Unregulated Forex Firms

  • France's AMF and ACPR warn the public against doing business with these companies.
Monday, 30/05/2016 | 12:46 GMT by Finance Magnates Staff
Brokers

Exclusive: Dozens of Broker Offices Raided by Romanian Police, 130 Arrested

  • Dozens of offices of unregulated foreign exchange and binary options companies have been visited by Romanian Police.
Friday, 27/05/2016 | 06:17 GMT by Victor Golovtchenko
Technology

Euroclear and French Asset Manager Unveil e-Data Liquidity for Fixed Income

  • Lyxor Asset Management, owned by Societe Generale, teams up with Euroclear.
Friday, 20/05/2016 | 12:47 GMT by Steven Hatzakis
Regulation

French Parliament to Vote on Forex and Binary Options Advertising Ban in 2016

  • French clients of financial services have been amongst the hardest hit by a number of fraudulent brokers.
Tuesday, 17/05/2016 | 18:40 GMT by Victor Golovtchenko
Regulation

French Authorities to Engage With CySEC to Tackle Forex and Binary Scams

  • A stunning estimate of €4.5 billion worth of losses for French clients over 6 years.
Thursday, 31/03/2016 | 22:37 GMT by Victor Golovtchenko
Regulation

French AMF Warns Against 21 Unregulated Binary Options Firms

  • The European watchdog listed 21 independent entities operating in the binary options industry without official consent.
Friday, 25/03/2016 | 10:37 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Regulation

IC Markets Heads List of Broker Warnings from France’s AMF

  • The market watchdog warns against unregulated currency market brokers in France.
Thursday, 04/02/2016 | 15:09 GMT by Damian Chmiel
Regulation

AMF Fines Euronext Paris and Virtu Financial for Market Manipulation in HFT

  • After an analysis of Virtu’s algorithms used and the way in which its trading strategy was implemented, the AMF found several anomalies.
Thursday, 10/12/2015 | 10:51 GMT by Jeff Patterson
Regulation

French Regulator Slaps FXCM with €200,000 Fine

  • The ruling was made public on the AMF website in French, adding a reputational cost to FXCM's brand in France on top of the monetary fine.
Wednesday, 28/10/2015 | 15:40 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Brokers

FXCM France Regulatory Hearing Leads to Press Speculation

  • An article in the local press asserts that the regulator is looking into imposing a fine on the foreign exchange and CFDs broker
Monday, 19/10/2015 | 15:43 GMT by Victor Golovtchenko
Brokers

Daily FX Brokers’ News: ThinkForex, Darwinex & OANDA

  • Finance Magnates has coalesced the latest broker news and updates from across the FX and binary options industry as the week reaches an end.
Friday, 25/09/2015 | 14:29 GMT by Jeff Patterson
Regulation

French Watchdog Lists 247 Unauthorized Binary Options Brands

  • Autorité des Marchés Financiers has added 24 websites offering binary options without authorization to provide financial services in France.
Wednesday, 02/09/2015 | 14:23 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Brokers

Brokers' Update: OANDA Scraps Onshore Chinese Yuan, French AMF Vigilant

  • Brokers have kept updating their offerings by adding and removing features and instruments while the French AMF updated its brokers warning list
Thursday, 16/07/2015 | 21:06 GMT by Victor Golovtchenko
Regulation

FXTM and eToro Added to Québec Blacklist by Local Watchdog

  • The provincial financial regulator has added four new unauthorized trading platforms to its warning list
Tuesday, 23/06/2015 | 16:18 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Regulation

French Watchdog Warns Against its Own Fake Clone Scam Website

  • Illegally using the name and logo of a regulator to gain referral commissions is a whole new level of criminal entrepreneurial audacity.
Wednesday, 22/04/2015 | 15:00 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Regulation

French Financial Watchdogs Update List of Unauthorized Forex Brokers

  • France’s financial regulators, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers and the ACPR, have released a list of 65 websites offering forex trading without authorisation to provide financial services in the country.
Tuesday, 24/03/2015 | 14:56 GMT by Avi Mizrahi
Analysis

European Regulators Cross Unregulated Binary Options & Forex Providers

  • European regulators are issuing updated warning messages as the number of unauthorized binary options and forex providers targeting clients within the Euro Zone has been growing steadily in recent months.
Tuesday, 23/12/2014 | 15:10 GMT by Victor Golovtchenko
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