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Finra arbitration panel orders UBS to pay for damages over Puerto Rico bond losses
March 28th, 2016
Damages linked to the commonwealth’s distressed debt continue to climb UBS Group AG’s wealth management business for the Americas must pay more than $470,000 to three investors who claimed damages because their accounts were over-concentrated in Puerto Rico bonds ...
CFTC Approves Substituted Compliance Framework in Follow-up to the Recent Equivalence Agreement between the US and the EU
March 18th, 2016
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today unanimously approved a substituted compliance framework for dually-registered central counterparties (CCPs) located in the European Union (EU), together with a comparability determination with respect to certain EU rules. Today’s action follows ...
ASIC bans former director and responsible manager of Macquarie subsidiary
February 16th, 2016
ASIC has banned Mr Timothy Hornibrook of Clovelly, New South Wales, from providing financial services for a period of six years. Mr Hornibrook, formerly a director and responsible manager of Australian financial services licensee, Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management Ltd ...
Euronext Amsterdam welcomes 52 UBS Asset Management ETFs
February 1st, 2016
New issuer marks strong growth of Dutch ETF market Euronext Amsterdam welcomed UBS Asset Management,a large-scale asset manager with long experience in the field of ETFs and index investing,as its new ETF issuer. UBS Asset Management listed 52 new ...
UBS Asset Management launches QDLP business in China
November 6th, 2015
UBS Asset Management has set up a wholly-owned foreign enterprise (WFOE) in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone to launch private funds in China for investing in overseas markets under the Qualified Domestic Limited Partner (QDLP) scheme. UBS Asset Management ...
UBS to Provide FX Prime Brokerage Services to Advanced Markets
July 8th, 2015
Top Prime of Prime Expands and Reinforces Credit Provision Services Advanced Markets Ltd., a prime of prime broker liquidity provider to retail FX brokers and institutions, announced today that it has added UBS AG as a prime broker. The ...
UBS Sets Sights on U.S. Investment Banking Again
May 8th, 2015
UBS AG, which stumbled badly the last time it pushed to expand in the lucrative U.S. investment-banking market, is again seeking to build its business here—though this time with more modest ambitions. UBS AG, which stumbled badly the last time ...
Subsidiaries of HKEx and SSE Sign Market Data Vendor Licence Agreement
March 31st, 2015
HKEx Information Services Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), signed a market data vendor licence agreement with SSE Infonet Limited (SSE Infonet), the information business subsidiary of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), on 27 ...
Audits of Special Purpose Frameworks: Obtaining Substantive Evidence from Engagement Letters
April 3rd, 2014
For some auditors, obtaining engagement letters has become a routine procedure. Copying the letter format from purchased practice aids, making slight modifications to the content and mailing the letter for signature by an entity’s president or board chairman has ...
UAE defies fintech slowdown with a 92% jump in funding — against a global plunge of 48%
January 26th, 2024
KEY POINTS Data from industry body Innovate Finance shows that global investment in fintechs sank to $51.2 billion in 2023, down 48% from 2022. Despite that, the UAE saw total investment soar 92%, thanks in part to more fintech-friendly ...
