OANDA, New York based forex trading serving provider recently revealed in an announcement that it has made a new addition to its APAC region senior level leadership team. As per statement released by the firm…
SEC Names Sean Memon as Chief of Staff
Washington D.C., June 26, 2019 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Sean Memon will become the agency’s Chief of Staff. Mr. Memon has served as the SEC’s Deputy Chief of Staff since…
LINE’s Crypto Exchange Deploys Chainalysis Compliance Solution
Chainalysis KYT is currently live on 110 cryptocurrency businesses and financial institutions in 35 countries. Leading blockchain analysis company, Chainalysis, has rolled out its cryptocurrency compliance solution for LINE's digital asset exchange, Bitbox. LINE regards compliance as a priority…
Operational Alert: Laundering of the Proceeds of Romance…
Romance fraud involves perpetrators expressing false romantic intentions toward victims to gain and then take advantage of their trust and affection in order to access their cash, bank accounts and credit cards. The Canadian Anti-Fraud…
MSCI Appoints Interim Chief Financial Officer
MSCI Inc. (NYSE: MSCI) (the “Company”), a leading provider of indexes and portfolio construction and risk management tools and services for global investors, announced today that Andrew C. Wiechmann, who has been serving as the…
Joint Media Release between MAS and European Commission
Vice President of the European Commission for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, Valdis Dombrovskis, and the Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore and Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Tharman Shanmugaratnam: A common approach…
Eurex Clears First Swap Transaction for U.S. End…
Eurex Clearing, one of the world’s leading central counterparties (CCP), has cleared its first swap transaction for end clients domiciled in the U.S. Citi is the first futures commission merchant (FCM) offering client swap clearing…
CFTC Staff Acts to Expand U.S. Customer Options…
Washington, DC — The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) staff today issued permission to Eurex Clearing AG (Eurex) to begin clearing swap transactions on behalf of customers of futures commission merchants (FCMs), providing U.S. customers…
ASIC Reviews Allocations Practices in Equity Raising Transactions
ASIC's review of allocations in equity raising transactions underscores the potential impact of conflicts of interests in allocation decisions. ASIC highlights areas of improvement for both financial services licensees (licensees) and issuers when raising equity…