The Financial Markets Authority (FMA), New Zealand’s financial watchdog has today updated its warning list to include Corporate Enterprises PTY Limited, trading as Option Giants, a binary options broker which offers investors the opportunity to trade in a variety of assets including stocks, commodities, currencies and indices.
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC), one of Canada’s thirteen provincial financial regulators, has again updated its Investor Caution List to include binary options broker, Binary Uno.
The warning comes just a day after the regulator warned investors against the online forex services being offered by Edgedale Finance which was flagged for unlawfully soliciting its offerings to the BC public.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) published on Thursday, through its consumer website MoneySmart.gov.au, alerts against non-licensed forex broker Ashton Cole Global Investments (aka AC Global) and binary options broker HongKong Tooptions, trading as ToOptions.
Two web-based binary-options firms, Vault Options, Ltd. and Global Trader 365, have been slammed with a $3 million (£2.26 million) civil monetary penalty, plus $1,587,731 (£1,193,356.51) in restitution, and have been banned from future trading, for defrauding their customers and violating the Commodity Exchange Act.
Canadian securities regulator the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has issued a warning to investors regarding binary options broker BigOption, operated by Wirestech Limited.
Most of warnings of this type involved unauthorized advertising to or contact with retail investors in Canada by unlicensed brokers, and this one is no different.
Yesterday’s trade saw GBP/USD within the range of 1.4743-1.4947. The pair closed at 1.4877, rising 1.15% compared to Wednesday’s close. It has been the 128th gain in the past 279 trading days. However, the major pair has lost 5.33% of its value so far in June, following a 0.92% drop in the prior month.
Retail forex broker Alpari has announced the release of the Alpari Options mobile application for iPhones.
All of the strategies, instruments and timeframes which are in the web version of the terminal in myAlpari are available in the new application.
Head of France’s securities regulator AMF, Gérard Rameix, has addressed the nation’s president François Hollande, voicing his concerns regarding the risks associated with trading online, and Forex trading in particular.
The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) on Friday updated its Investment Caution List, which features the names of unregistered foreign brokerage firms that have solicited investors to open trading accounts, offered them unqualified investments and the names of businesses connected, or purporting to be connected, to British Columbia that have solicited investors in other jurisdictions to purchase unqualified investments.
According to information on the Japanese regulator’s website, the Kanto finance bureau of Japan’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) today added seven firms to its warning list and cited that the entities lacked registration in Japan, while at the same time warning the public in the updated advisory.
