Why did Australia police raid the places of work of ASIC licensed CFDs dealer Prospero Markets, arrest the corporate’s controlling shareholder, and freeze Prospero’s accounts?
What occurred to (nearly) all of the money at FG Acquisition Corp, the SPAC meant to merger with Retail FX and CFDs dealer ThinkMarkets which might take ThinkMarkets public on the Toronto Inventory Change?
Who launched new Lebanon primarily based dealer PrimaCapital?
Who was employed to go ATFX’s Australia operation?
The place did skilled FX business advertising government Drosoula Hadjisavva (ex ThinkMarkets, Orbex, BDSwiss, FXCC, IronFX) now grow to be CMO?
Among the most learn and commented-on FX/CFD business information tales to look over the previous seven days on FNG included:
Unique: Australia police raid ASIC licensed CFDs dealer Prospero Markets, accounts frozen. FNG Unique… FNG has discovered that the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has raided the places of work of Melbourne primarily based, ASIC licensed Retail FX and CFDs dealer Prospero Markets, as a part of a wider motion taken by the AFP in opposition to a China primarily based cash laundering ring. Prospero Markets has had all its financial institution accounts frozen, and has halted all shopper exercise because the AFP raid on the finish of October. As a part of the raid the only director of Prospero Markets’ final holding firm CJ Prime Monetary, Ding Wang, was arrested by the AFP alongside quite a lot of different people related to the corporate.
Unique: ThinkMarkets IPO associate FG Acquisition confirms money lowered from $118M to simply $2M. FNG Unique… Additional to our unique report again in July that FG Acquisition Corp (TSE:FGAA.U), the particular goal acquisition firm (or SPAC) which has agreed to merge with Retail FX and CFDs dealer ThinkMarkets, had seen a mass redemption occasion whereby nearly all of FG’s public shareholders elected to redeem their shares for money as a substitute of going forward with the ThinkMarkets merger, FNG has now discovered from regulatory filings made in Canada that FG’s coffers have certainly been practically emptied from the redemption.
Unique: OneRoyal bizdev exec Ali Marwani leaves to begin new CFDs dealer PrimaCapital. FNG Unique… FNG has discovered that longtime OneRoyal government Ali Marwani has left the corporate, to begin a brand new Retail FX and CFD brokerage model known as PrimaCapital. PrimaCapital, at web site prima-capital.com, will provide buying and selling in a wide range of CFDs on the MT4 and MT5 platforms. The corporate might be operated from Beirut, Lebanon, apparently with none listed licensing or regulation.
CFI provides Class One SCA License within the UAE. Main on-line buying and selling supplier CFI Monetary Group has introduced the addition of its latest Class One license, awarded by the UAE’s Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA). The brand new license comes as CFI’s second within the nation, including to the Group’s spectacular arsenal of regulatory help in a number of different jurisdictions, together with the UK, Cyprus, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Palestine, Oman, Mauritius, and different jurisdictions.
High FX business government strikes reported at FNG this week included:
❑ SquaredFinancial hires Drosoula Hadjisavva as CMO, Thomas Selby as CSO.
❑ Unique: MultiBank CBDO Roman Krutyanskiy departs.
❑ Unique: Orbex brokerage exec Hakam Thalji joins The Buying and selling Pit as Head of Dealing.
❑ ATFX hires Simon Naish as Nation Head in Australia.
❑ Binance names Richard Teng its new CEO.
