HKEX informs market participants about planned launch of Client Connect
The first release of Client Connect, previously known as the Client Portal, is scheduled for the first quarter of 2019.
Interactive Brokers adds Econoday data to Calendar on IBKR Mobile app
The Event Calendar now includes institutional-quality global economic events data by Econoday.
Australian trader accused of spoofing appears in US Court following his arrest
The Illinois Northern District Court orders that Jiongsheng “Jim” Zhao shall remain in federal custody until further order of the court.
Saxo Bank rolls out new platform SaxoInvestor
The platform aims to give the growing investor segment the opportunity to build long-term portfolios across stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, and SaxoSelect portfolios.
Nadex bans three members from trading over their failure to cooperate with Compliance Department
Catalin Pasnicu, XueYu Chen, and Hang Zhang have had their Nadex membership revoked, and have been permanently banned from trading on the Nadex markets by any means.
State One Stockbroking to pay $500,000 due to failures to comply with ASIC market integrity rules
The failures include placing bids on behalf of a client, in circumstances where State One should have reasonably suspected that the client had the intention of creating misleading appearance regarding the market for a stock.
NY Court postpones sentencing of BitFunder operator Jon Montroll
Judge Richard M. Berman has adjourned the sentencing to January 24, 2019.
SEC consults on Nasdaq’s plans to introduce new Midpoint Trade Now functionality
Midpoint Trade Now will allow a resting Order that becomes locked at its non-displayed price by an incoming Midpoint Peg Post-Only Order to automatically execute against that Midpoint Peg Post-Only Order as a liquidity taker.
Japanese retail FX broker Excite One reschedules launch of social trading network Macaso for 2019
The launch is now scheduled for January 2019.
Former Head of FX Trading at Wells Fargo refuses to give info in Forex benchmark rate fixing case
Simon Fowles, ex-Head of FX Trading at Wells Fargo, insists he has no personal knowledge of matters relating to the lawsuit targeting top banks like JP Morgan and Bank of America.
UBS Securities Australia pays $120,000 penalty over alleged violation of market integrity rules
A number of transactions in relation to six on-market buy-backs conducted by UBS on the ASX market in 2017 were not in the ordinary course of trading and were not in accordance with the clients’ instructions.
CFTC to vacate swap execution facility registration of GTX SEF
In line with GTX SEF’s request, the CFTC order revokes GTX SEF’s registration effective December 30, 2018.
SEC seeks Court’s approval of settlement with Maksim Zaslavskiy, REcoin, DRC World
The proposed judgments would permanently bar Zaslavskiy from serving as an officer or director of any public company and from participating in any offerings of digital securities.
Premier FX creditors agree on appointment of Joint Liquidators
A resolution has been passed that Jonathan David Bass and Freddy Khalastchi, both of Menzies LLP, be appointed as Joint Liquidators of Premier FX Limited.
Bank of England official forecasts development of “cyborg supervision”
Advanced analytics are opening a wide range of new possibilities for supervision of banks, but machines are still unable to fully replicate human cognition.
