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French Fintech Lemon Way Selects Accuity To Streamline Its Financial Crime Compliance Process, Facilitating Faster Customer Onboarding

Date 27/02/2018

Accuity, the leading provider of financial crime compliance, payments and counterparty know-your-customer (KYC) solutions, has embarked on a project to help payment solutions company, Lemon Way, to more efficiently identify financial crime and flag potentially high-risk customers. Lemon Way has chosen to implement Firco Compliance Link, an Accuity solution which will enable the business to streamline its financial crime compliance screening, improving transparency, auditability and efficiency during the onboarding of new customers.

Trading Firm Mana Partners Goes Live With Metamako For Ultra-Low Latency Exchange Connectivity

Date 27/02/2018

Mana Partners (Mana), the New York-based electronic trading and asset management firm, has gone live with Metamako, using its cutting-edge network devices to provide cost-effective, nanosecond-level access to exchanges, in doing so granting Mana the ability to make superior investment decisions.

HKFE Announces Revised Margins For Futures Contract

Date 27/02/2018

Please be advised that pursuant to Exchange Rule 617(d) and HKCC Rule 402, the Exchange and the Clearing House have determined that with effect from the commencement of trading on Thursday, 1 March 2018, the margin levels of the following Futures Contracts shall be as follows:   

First Scale IPO Of 2018: STEMMER IMAGING AG New On Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Date 27/02/2018

STEMMER IMAGING AG (ISIN: DE000A2G9MZ9) today became the first company to launch an IPO in the SME segment Scale of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange this year. The STEMMER IMAGING shares opened trading at €36.00, following an issue price of €34.00.

ETFGI Reports Assets Invested In Leveraged And Inverse ETFs And ETPs Listed Globally Reach Record High Of US$87.3 Billion At The End Of January 2018

Date 27/02/2018

According to ETFGI’s January 2018 Leverage and Inverse ETF and ETP industry insights report, a monthly report included in an annual paid-for research subscription service, assets invested in leveraged and inverse ETFs and ETPs listed globally reached a record high of US$87.3 billion at the end of January 2018, shattering the previous record of US$80.7 billion set at the end of 2017. (All dollar values in USD unless otherwise noted.)

QuantHouse Welcomes CMC Markets To The qh API Ecosystem - Connecting CMC Markets To The Global Financial Community Via A Single API

Date 27/02/2018

QuantHouse, the independent global provider of end-to-end high performance market data and trading through API based technologies, announced today the addition of CMC Markets to its qh API Ecosystem. 

The UK Financial Conduct Authority Fines Vanquis £1,976,000 And Orders Vanquis To Pay Compensation To Customers

Date 27/02/2018

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today imposed a fine of £1,976,000 on credit card lender, Vanquis, for failing to disclose the full price of an add-on product, called Repayment Option Plan (ROP). The firm will also repay an estimated £168,781,000 in compensation which constitutes the amount of the charges not disclosed to customers when they bought the ROP.

New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority To Hold Directors To Account For FSPR Abuse, First Charges Filed

Date 27/02/2018

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has filed criminal charges against a company and its New Zealand-based director for breaching the Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act (FSP Act).

Brief Thoughts On The Financial Regulatory System And Cybersecurity, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman For Supervision Randal K. Quarles, At The Financial Services Roundtable 2018 Spring Conference, Washington, D.C.

Date 27/02/2018

Thank you very much for having me here at the Financial Services Roundtable's spring meeting. I am pleased to speak with you all about our financial regulatory system: both the broad principles that have been directing my approach to evaluating the regulatory system, as well as cybersecurity, which is a topic of great import to financial system participants and their regulators.

Remarks Of CFTC Commissioner Brian Quintenz Before The Structured Finance Industry Group Vegas Conference

Date 26/02/2018

Introduction

Good morning. Thank you for that very kind introduction.

Before I begin, let me quickly say that the views contained in this speech are my own and do not represent the views of the Commission. I’m very pleased to be speaking here with you today at the Structured Finance Industry Group Vegas Conference.

Las Vegas is an exciting place. I know the first thing everyone wants right now is to have a Washington, D.C. regulator stand up and read a detailed policy speech line by line. So I’m going to do something different this morning. I’m going to tell you a joke. And then I’m going to read a detailed policy speech line by line.