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AMF reports unauthorised Forex providers
March 31st, 2017
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR) issued an announcement to inform investors and public in relation of websites and entities offering investments on the unregulated foreign exchange (Forex) market ...
AMF warns for unauthorised Binary Options providers
March 30th, 2017
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF), the independent public authority supervising the orderly operation of markets in France, has issued a warning to inform investors and public about the activity of unauthorized websites offering binary options trading. Below is ...
AMF and SIGNAL SPAM sign investor protection partnership agreement
March 30th, 2017
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) is working on various initiatives aimed at offering better protection for investors. One such initiative is today’s signature of a partnership agreement with Signal Spam, the French national spam reporting platform. Signal Spam ...
The Autorité des marchés Financiers (AMF) annonces the new composition of the Financial Skills Certification Board
March 8th, 2017
The mechanism for verifying the level of knowledge of employees of investment services providers relies on the services of the AMF and the Financial Skills Certification Board. The Certification Board is now under the chairmanship of Bernard Coupez. Summary ...
AMF advices traders to close their accounts with Banc de Binary
January 30th, 2017
The Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) advises the clients of the website eu.bancdebinary.com to contact Banc de Binary Ltd, the owner of these websites, as soon as possible The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec) has announced that Banc ...
AMF publishes a study on behaviour of high-frequency traders (HFTs)
January 28th, 2017
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) has published a detailed analysis of the activity of market participants engaged in high-frequency trading (HFT) on CAC 40 stocks, with focus on their presence in the order book, how they provide and ...
AMF France introduced a new market surveillance
January 26th, 2017
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), ever determined to remain at the forefront of detecting market abuse and other violations, is launching an effort to modernise its monitoring system, enhancing its ability to detect, analyse and investigate suspicious activity. ...
AMF sets specifics for its ban on the advertising of the riskiest products
January 11th, 2017
A major investor protection milestone: the AMF sets specifics for its ban on the advertising of the riskiest products For several years, the AMF has focused its attention on exposing the danger posed to retail investors by highly speculative ...
AMF warns about proposals to invest in diamonds
January 9th, 2017
The AMF is warning the public about proposals to invest in diamonds. Seemingly highly attractive, and often presented as a safe investment, these proposals make glowing promises of exceptional and even unrealistic returns. The AMF is calling on individual ...
AMF lauches a consultation on modifications to its general regulation
January 4th, 2017
Law no. 2016-1691 of 9 December 2016 on transparency, the fight against corruption, and the modernisation of economic life (the “Sapin II” Law) introduces a change in the system of intermediation in miscellaneous property, as set out in Article ...
