by Caroline Sheldon | 2019-07-26 | Industry News
THE CONSULTATION The European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”), launches a public consultation on the development in prices for pre and post trade data and post-trade consolidated tape (“CT”) for equity instruments. Whilst MiFID II sets out the legal...
by Leela | 2019-07-08 | Industry News
In May 2019, the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) published their findings of a review they carried out with respect to principal firms (“Principals”) and their appointed representatives (“ARs”) within the investment management sector (the “Review”). The Review...
by Caroline Sheldon | 2019-07-03 | Industry News
A UK based crypto currency hedge fund is the first investment firm in the UK to receive full-scope authorisation from the financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”). THE LICENCE In a Bloomberg report published on 2 July 2019, it has been confirmed...
by Leela | 2019-06-26 | Industry News
In the recent case of, The State of the Netherlands (the “State of the Netherlands”) and Deutsche Bank AG (“DB”)[2019], the Court of Appeal (the “Court”) has confirmed that negative interest is not payable by the party transferring cash...
by Caroline Sheldon | 2019-06-07 | Industry News
BACKGROUND As a consequence of the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) scandal in which several bankers at many major financial institutions manipulated LIBOR by reporting artificially low or high interest rates to benefit their derivative traders, undermining a...
by Leela | 2019-06-05 | Industry News
The High Court (the “Court”) recently found in favour of the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) resolving that an unauthorised investment scheme must pay almost £1 million to the FCA to be re-distributed to investors as a result of several breaches by both the firm...
