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wCBDC Pilot On SIX Digital Exchange To Continue Over The Next Two Years
Date 20/06/2024
Today, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) announced the continuation of the Helvetia Pilot focusing on tokenized securities settlement on SIX Digital Exchange (SDX) in Swiss franc digital central bank money for financial market participants (known as wholesale central bank digital currency – wCBDC). This comes after successfully demonstrating the efficient and safe settlement of tokenized assets in wCBDC during Project Helvetia III, which will run until the end of June this year. The next stage of the pilot aims at expanding the scope with the intention to gradually include additional financial institutions and to serve a broader range of financial market transactions.
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AMINA Bank Launches The AMINA Payments Network (APN) - AMINA Bank Adds APN To Its Extensive Range Of Banking Products, Enabling Seamless Payments Between Members
Date 20/06/2024
AMINA Bank, a licensed and FINMA-regulated digital assets bank, has today announced the launch of the AMINA Payment Network (APN). Designed to address the needs of the crypto banking world, APN helps to facilitate real-time payments to other APN members. This new service aims to keep users ahead and connected, ensuring seamless and timely financial transactions.
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Charles Schwab Brings Schwab Trading Powered By Ameritrade To UK Retail Traders, Setting A New Standard For The Retail Trading Experience
Date 20/06/2024
Charles Schwab’s retail trading experience, Schwab Trading Powered by Ameritrade™, is now available to traders in the UK. Charles Schwab, a leading provider of financial services, with 35.1 million active brokerage accounts globally, has combined the award-winning thinkorswim® suite of trading platforms with the trading capabilities on Schwab.com and Schwab Mobile, extensive trading education and specialised support services to provide traders of all types and levels with an exceptional holistic trading experience.
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UK Financial Conduct Authority Urges Victims To Claim Compensation For Ian Hudson's Illegal Activities
Date 20/06/2024
The FCA urges victims to come forward by 3 July 2024 after the court ordered compensation for victims of fraudulent trading and regulated activities carried on without authorisation.
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Opening Address, Dato’ Mohammad Faiz Azmi, Chairman, Securities Commission Malaysia, SIDC Sustainable And Responsible Investment Conference 2024: Investing In Human Wellbeing And The Planet
Date 20/06/2024
First and foremost, I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to Securities Industry Development Corporation (or better known as SIDC) for providing me with the opportunity to deliver the opening address, especially as it’s my first public speech as the Chairman of the Securities Commission Malaysia.
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Hong Kong Securities And Futures Commission Suspends Shum Wai Nap For Seven Months For Failures In Managing A Private Fund
Date 20/06/2024
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has suspended Mr Shum Wai Nap, former licensed representative of PICC Asset Management (Hong Kong) Company Limited (PICC), for seven months from 20 June 2024 to 19 January 2025 for fund management failures.
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Circular Of Shanghai International Energy Exchange On Adjusting Trading Margin Rates And Price Limits Of Containerized Freight Index (Europe Service) Futures Contracts
Date 20/06/2024
Shanghai International Energy Exchange has released its Circular on Adjusting Trading Margin Rates and Price Limits of Containerized Freight Index (Europe Service) Futures Contracts as follows:
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Singapore Publishes Updated Money Laundering National Risk Assessment
Date 20/06/2024
Singapore published today its updated Money Laundering (ML) National Risk Assessment (NRA), as part of Singapore’s continuing efforts to maintain the effectiveness of its anti-money laundering (AML) regime amidst the evolving risk landscape. The updated ML NRA synthesises the ML risks observed by the Singapore supervisory and law enforcement agencies, and Singapore’s Financial Intelligence Unit – the Suspicious Transaction Reporting Office (STRO), as well as feedback from private sector entities and counterpart foreign authorities. Since its last ML NRA in 2014, Singapore has been closely monitoring our ML risks including conducting thematic risks assessments in relation to abuse of legal persons, virtual assets, and environmental crime ML, to ensure that these risks are surfaced in a timely manner to facilitate targeted risk mitigation across relevant stakeholders.
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Hong Kong Securities And Futures Commission Secures Conviction For Provision Of Paid Investment Advice On Telegram Chat Group Without Licence
Date 20/06/2024
The Eastern Magistrates’ Court today convicted Mr Wong Ming Chung for providing investment advice on a subscription-based chat group on Telegram he hosted without a licence in a prosecution brought by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) (Note 1).
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Circular Of Shanghai International Energy Exchange On Trading Margin Rates And Price Limits Of EC2506 Futures Contract
Date 20/06/2024
Shanghai International Energy Exchange has released its Circular on Trading Margin Rates and Price Limits of EC2506 Futures Contract as follows:
