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Iress offloads QuantHouse

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
... financial news, technology and solutions for the financial services industry covering more than 12 million financial instruments. Iress Group chief executive Marcus Price said: "With our transformation program now complete, Iress is focused on strengthening ...

ETFs dominate client portfolios: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2024
... or may not be right for their situations, some consumers might need help understanding this mainstay of financial instruments," the report shows.

Social media influencers charged for promoting shady investments

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2024
... their collective 4.5 million followers. This now-deleted account was doling out advice on trading complex financial instruments without proper authorisation. The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) alleges that between 9 May 2018 and 13 April ...

Bloomberg pays US$5m in SEC charges

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2023
... accurate information to their customers about their valuation processes," SEC chief enforcement's complex financial instruments unit Osman Nawaz said. "This matter underscores that we will hold service providers, such as Bloomberg, accountable for misrepresentations ...

SEC fines UBS Financial Services over fraud charges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2022
... clear understanding of the risks those products present," chief of the Division of Enforcement's Complex Financial Instruments Unit, Osman Nawaz said. "As fiduciaries, advisers also must make suitable recommendations to their clients. Complex products ...

Fear of greenwashing worse than reality: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2021
... has become a key concern that may drive investor confusion when it comes to identifying which companies or financial instruments conform to a given set of ESG standards," S&P said, discussing the labelling of green bonds specifically. "According to the ...

BlackRock readies for crypto exposure

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... potentially trade in bitcoin derivatives. "Each fund may use instruments referred to as derivatives, which are financial instruments that derive their value from one or more securities, commodities (such as gold or oil), currencies (including bitcoin) ...

ASIC to curb huge CFD losses

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... and a buyer, typically made with borrowed or leveraged funds, betting on the entry and closing price of financial instruments like shares. If the closing price is higher than the opening price, the buyer makes a profit. If the trade price decreases ...

Fund manager charged with fraud

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... other bidder not to describe Kamensky's conduct as a threat." The SEC division of enforcement's complex financial instruments unit chief Daniel Michael said this type of "deceptive conduct" has no place in securities offerings. "Kamensky abused his ...

Sovereign investors keen on gold, infrastructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... market banks, where almost 90% were drawing on USD allocations to boost gold reserves." In terms of the financial instruments used for gold exposure: 40% of sovereign investors are using gold futures, 40% are using gold-backed ETFs while some are still ...
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