Blockchain Life 2018 – take part in the international forum on blockchain!

November 7-8, St. Petersburg will host the 2nd annual international forum on blockchain, cryptocurrency and mining - Blockchain Life 2018. More detailed: https://blockchain-life.com/en/ 5000+ attendees 80 speakers 70 countries 120 booths The two-day forum/conference at the Europe's leading venue Expoforum gathers more than 5,000 participants from...

Vantage FX Offering Clients the Ability to Trade Bitcoin on MT4 (BTC/USD)

Vantage FX have become the latest Australian regulated forex broker to offer our clients the ability to trade Bitcoin on the MT4 platform. By placing the BTC/USD market on our platform, traders with Vantage FX will be able to trade the cryptocurrency CFD immediately. Director of...

HotForex Now Offering Bitcoin Trading

HotForex, the internationally acclaimed multi-asset broker, has now added Bitcoin to its Cryptocurrency CFDs to allow traders to buy and sell it after starting to offer it as a deposit option earlier in the year. A HotForex spokesperson said, "Bitcoin has been rapidly changing the...

Sydney Man Faces Charges for Market Manipulation

Mr Benjamin Amzalak, 46, of Bondi in New South Wales, has appeared by his counsel before the Downing Centre Local Court today on 10 charges of market manipulation brought by ASIC. The charges follow an ASIC investigation into trading in the shares of the Australian...

CFTC’s LabCFTC Releases Primer on Virtual Currencies

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s LabCFTC today released, “A CFTC Primer on Virtual Currencies.” This primer is the first of a series that LabCFTC will release to provide fundamental, and essential, information about financial technology (FinTech) innovation. “LabCFTC believes that promoting education, understanding, and regulatory...

FMA Files Crimes Act Charges Against Steven Robertson

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has filed criminal charges against Steven Robertson in the Auckland District Court under the Crimes Act 1961. Mr Robertson faces a total of 47 charges relating to PTT Limited and associated entities. 28 counts of theft by a person in...

HKEX News Release – Deferral of VCM rollout for the Derivatives Market

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has decided to defer the rollout of the Volatility Control Mechanism (VCM) for the derivatives market scheduled for tomorrow, 14 November 2016, to a date to be announced after a potential technical issue was identified during its...

NEX Regulatory Reporting Announces It Will Apply to Become an SFTR Trade Repository

NEX Regulatory Reporting announces today its intention to apply to become a trade repository for the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) and launch a dedicated reporting solution, pending the issuance of the final technical standards from ESMA. NEX Regulatory Reporting will in time add the...

ITG Paying $24 Million for Improper Handling of ADRs

The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that broker ITG agreed to pay more than $24.4 million to settle charges that it violated federal securities laws when it prompted the issuance of American Depository Receipts (ADRs) without possessing the underlying foreign shares. ADRs are U.S....

Former Head of Barclays New York Foreign Exchange Operation Indicted for Orchestrating Multimillion-Dollar Front-Running Scheme

The former head of Barclays Capital Inc.’s (Barclays) New York foreign exchange trading operation was charged yesterday in an indictment for his alleged role in a scheme to defraud a client of Barclays through a method commonly referred to as “front-running.”  The charges relate...

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