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  • Company Halts ICO After SEC Raises Registration Concerns

    Date 11/12/2017

    A California-based company selling digital tokens to investors to raise capital for its blockchain-based food review service halted its initial coin offering (ICO) after being contacted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and agreed to an order in which the Commission found that its conduct constituted unregistered securities offers and sales.

  • CFTC Staff Issues Interpretive Guidance Clarifying Commodity Trading Advisor Registration Requirements Resulting from The European Union’s MiFID II Research Compensation Provisions For Investment Managers

    Date 11/12/2017

    The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Division of Swap Dealer and Intermediary Oversight (DSIO) today issued interpretative guidance providing that a futures commission merchant (FCM), swap dealer (SD), or introducing broker (IB) that receives separate compensation for commodity trading advice is not required to register as a commodity trading advisor, provided that the offered advice is “solely incidental” to the conduct of the FCM’s or SD’s business, or “solely in connection with” the operation of the IB’s business.

  • MOEX Introduces New Analytical Product

    Date 11/12/2017

    Moscow Exchange announces the start of a trial offering of a new analytical product, Value Added Analytical Product. The new product is intended for domestic and international institutional investors, and can be used as an additional tool for analysis of financial instruments traded on MOEX.

  • EBA Publishes Final Draft Technical Standards On Central Contact Points Under PSD2

    Date 11/12/2017

    The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on Central Contact Points under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The RTS specify the criteria for determining when the appointment of a central contact point in a host Member State (MS) is appropriate and the functions that these contact points should fulfill. These RTS are in support of the objective of PSD2 of facilitating the supervision by competent authorities (CAs) of the networks of agents used by payment institutions (PIs) and electronic money institutions (EMIs) for providing cross-border payment services under the right of establishment. 

  • Federal Reserve Board Requests Comment On Proposed Changes To The Payment System Risk Policy

    Date 11/12/2017

    The Federal Reserve Board on Monday requested public comment on proposed policy changes to procedures governing the provision of intraday credit to U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banking organizations (FBOs). The changes are intended to refine the methods for determining the level of intraday credit that these branches and agencies can receive from the Federal Reserve Banks.