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ayondo Opens Office in Singapore
July 11th, 2014
The ayondo group announced that it has opened an office in Singapore, the ayondo Asia PTE Ltd, following its strategist expansion worldwide. The holding company, which operated as an investment group under the name Next Generation Finance until April ...
Netagio Launches Exchange for Gold, Sterling and Bitcoin Traders
July 11th, 2014
Bitcoin storage firm Netagio has today launched an exchange that allows users to trade bitcoin, pounds sterling and gold. The exchange offers users three order-books, allowing trades between bitcoin and gold, bitcoin and sterling, and gold and sterling. “ ...
Temporary restriction in short selling
July 1st, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) notifies that it temporarily prohibits short selling in the following instruments under Articles 23 (1) and 26 (4) of Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 March ...
Credit Suisse and Yorkshire Building Society fined for failing to promote products
June 16th, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority has slapped a unit of Credit Suisse and the Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) with millions of pounds worth of fines for failing to ensure that the promotion of a key financial product was clear, fair ...
HM Treasury, the BoE and the Financial Conduct Authority announce Fair and Effective Markets Review
June 12th, 2014
The British government has announced in a press release publishing the Fair and Effective Markets Review the strategic steps to follow in order to raise standards of conduct in the financial system. The review was conducted jointly by the Treasury, the ...
Barclays Fine Spurs New U.K. Scrutiny of Derivatives Conflicts
June 6th, 2014
Britain’s markets regulator plans to scrutinize the conflicts of interest banks face when they use derivatives after fining Barclays Plc (BARC) for manipulating the price of gold to avoid a pay-out to a client. The Financial Conduct Authority will ...
Barclays Manipulated Gold as Soon as It Stopped Manipulating Libor
May 26th, 2014
If you were writing a paranoid fantasy of gold price manipulation you’d be hard pressed to come up with something more on the nose than the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority’s order against Barclays. It has everything; it is the ...
Important information for debt management customers
May 22nd, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the British financial regulatory body has issued the following warning: People who have a debt management plan with Debt Help & Advice Ltd should cease making payments to the company immediately, the Financial Conduct ...
Financial Conduct Authority to investigate how firms deal with risk benchmark manipulation
March 31st, 2014
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced plans to look into how firms can reduce the risk of traders manipulating key benchmarks as a central part of its Business Plan for 2014/15, which was published today. The forward-looking thematic ...
Bank of England: financial report
March 18th, 2014
The Bank of England has issued a press release of an annual report on the supervision of financial market infrastructures. The report provides an account of how the Bank has exercised its responsibilities in respect of financial market infrastructure supervision. ...
