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Canadian Watchdog: FX Trading Scheme Guaranteeing Returns Breaches the Law
- Rare Investments, which led investors to believe it developed an FX trading strategy that could produce a high monthly ROI of 1%-3% actually lost most of the funds and found to violate the securities law
Tuesday, 01/07/2014 | 13:48 GMT by
Avi Mizrahi
Officials aim to ease regulations to insure MasterCard and Visa stay in Russia
Tuesday, 24/06/2014 | 14:13 GMT by
FMAdmin Someone
Canadian Parliament now regulating digital currencies
Tuesday, 24/06/2014 | 12:16 GMT by
FMAdmin Someone
US Forex Credit Card Ban Set to Become Law as NFA Approves Measure
- The US National Futures Association (NFA) has announced today that its board has approved banning the use of credit cards for funding forex accounts. The law is pending approval from the CFTC.
Monday, 23/06/2014 | 19:39 GMT by
Ron Finberg
CySEC Tightens Reporting Regime in Compliance with European Standard
- The Cypriot watchdog has announced a new capital adequacy and exposure, demanding Investment Firms who hold clients’ money or financial instruments to have an initial capital of at least €200,000.
Monday, 23/06/2014 | 08:40 GMT by
Jeff Patterson
MasterCard is looking for local payment solutions in order to comply with new Russian regulations
Wednesday, 18/06/2014 | 09:56 GMT by
FMAdmin Someone
Exclusive: BTFX Launches in Malta, Initially Targeting Europe with an STP Offering
- The company gets its liquidity from a major European LP, with an MT4 license and is headed by Mr. Mark L Zammit, who has served at FXDD as Operations Manager and Risk Manager for more than 3 years.
Tuesday, 17/06/2014 | 15:24 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
CFTC April FCM Financials Show Continued Contraction in US Forex Industry
- In what isn’t much of a surprise, the CFTC’s monthly report of April FCM financials is showing a decline in the size of the US forex industry, falling below $600m to $595.2m in US retail forex customer assets.
Tuesday, 17/06/2014 | 14:44 GMT by
Ron Finberg
Acting Global Head of FX, Jeff Feig, Parts Ways with Citigroup
- Citigroup is officially in the market for a new FX Chief, given the void left by outgoing Global Head of G10 FX Trading Jeff Feig today, yet another departure of a high-ranking executive in an industry immersed in allegations.
Tuesday, 17/06/2014 | 14:28 GMT by
Jeff Patterson
IEX Appoints Leading SEC Official, John Ramsay, as Its Newest Regulatory Officer
- The IEX, a beacon of transparency and fairness in the financial industry, has announced that former SEC Acting Director John Ramsay will be joining the organization as its newest Chief Market Policy and Regulatory Officer.
Tuesday, 17/06/2014 | 10:13 GMT by
Jeff Patterson
Binary Options Trading Volumes in Japan Drop 41.5% in May
- According to monthly data released by the Japanese Financial Services Authority, the number of actively trading binary options accounts in the country has averaged just above 12,000 since the start of the year.
Monday, 16/06/2014 | 23:20 GMT by
Victor Golovtchenko
Juan Jutgla Joins the Financial Commission’s Dispute Resolution Committee
- Mr. Jutgla has been involved in the financial field since 1995 and as the CEO of Smart Broker Solutions he works with brokers and technology vendors on setting up UK FCA licensed operations and more.
Monday, 09/06/2014 | 19:30 GMT by
Avi Mizrahi
The EU Consumer Rights Directive: 4 things sellers need to know
Monday, 09/06/2014 | 09:56 GMT by
FMAdmin Someone
PR: Volante Technologies releases ISO 20022 Conversion Pack for South African regions
Monday, 09/06/2014 | 08:31 GMT by
FMAdmin Someone
New EU directive to boost online consumer rights awareness
Sunday, 08/06/2014 | 13:10 GMT by
FMAdmin Someone
India's Prime Minster likely to allow FDI in Ecommerce next month
Sunday, 08/06/2014 | 10:53 GMT by
FMAdmin Someone
BMO Capital Markets Integrates Fenergo Regulatory Reporting Technology
- BMO Capital Markets, a financial services provider dealing in multiple asset-classes, has tabbed investment solutions specialist Fenergo for its regulator technology and client onboarding service.
Tuesday, 03/06/2014 | 14:34 GMT by
Jeff Patterson
If You Can’t Join Them, Beat Them! Looking for the Next Big Thing
- A bit belated, my review of thoughts from last week’s exhibition in Cyprus. What is the next big thing? Is there a MT4 killer on the horizon? And why the event was filled with payment processing companies.
Tuesday, 03/06/2014 | 07:41 GMT by
Ron Finberg
FXCM Joins the Australian CFD Forum Call to Require Mandatory Segregation of Client Funds
- IG Markets, GFT Global Markets and CMC Markets created the Australian CFD Forum to petition the regulator to apply harsher consumer protection laws on brokers. AxiTrader protest the law as anti-competitive.
Sunday, 01/06/2014 | 19:45 GMT by
Avi Mizrahi
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