Posts published in January 2017

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), Hong Kong’s main financial services watchdog, today updated its Alert List with the addition of another brokerage after it…

The Brazilian real, like most other currencies, rallied against the US dollar today despite monetary easing from Brazil’s central bank. The Central Bank of Brazil cut its main interest…

Financial Services Providers (FSPs) who have foreign registration (i.e. by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK or Financial Services Provider Register in New Zealand)…

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), one of the thirteen provincial financial regulators in Canada, announced today that Ontario resident Vernon Smith has been charged with…

Japanese brokerage Gaitame revealed today its latest set of figures for the month of December 2016. The figures seem disappointing compared with the strong performance…

Paysafe Group, a UK-based payments provider and money transfer service and solutions provider, today issued a trading update for the year ended 31 December 2016, as…

2016 was a very tumultuous year for fintech, starting off with a crash in the lending sector which took me by surprise. But fintech ended…

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has issued a corrective statement regarding a fine it has issued against IQ Option. Last September, the regulator…

Calypso Technology, a provider of capital markets and investment management software, has announced the launch of its new Cloud Services Division featuring a comprehensive lineup…

Agency broker and trading systems provider ConvergEx has added new functionality to its ADR brokerage offering in a bid to enable its buy-side clients access…