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French AMF Warns Against 21 Unregulated Binary Options Firms
2016-03-25T12:37:26.000+02:00
The European watchdog listed 21 independent entities operating in the binary options industry without official consent.
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IC Markets Heads List of Broker Warnings from France’s AMF
2016-02-04T17:09:25.000+02:00
The market watchdog warns against unregulated currency market brokers in France.
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AMF Fines Euronext Paris and Virtu Financial for Market Manipulation in HFT
2015-12-10T12:51:19.000+02:00
After an analysis of Virtu’s algorithms used and the way in which its trading strategy was implemented, the AMF found several anomalies.
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French Regulator Slaps FXCM with €200,000 Fine
2015-10-28T17:40:39.000+02:00
The ruling was made public on the AMF website in French, adding a reputational cost to FXCM's brand in France on top of the monetary fine.
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FXCM France Regulatory Hearing Leads to Press Speculation
2015-10-19T17:43:06.000+02:00
An article in the local press asserts that the regulator is looking into imposing a fine on the foreign exchange and CFDs broker
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Daily FX Brokers’ News: ThinkForex, Darwinex & OANDA
2015-09-25T16:29:40.000+02:00
Finance Magnates has coalesced the latest broker news and updates from across the FX and binary options industry as the week reaches an end.
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French Watchdog Lists 247 Unauthorized Binary Options Brands
2015-09-02T16:23:01.000+02:00
Autorité des Marchés Financiers has added 24 websites offering binary options without authorization to provide financial services in France.
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Brokers' Update: OANDA Scraps Onshore Chinese Yuan, French AMF Vigilant
2015-07-16T23:06:26.000+02:00
Brokers have kept updating their offerings by adding and removing features and instruments while the French AMF updated its brokers warning list
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FXTM and eToro Added to Québec Blacklist by Local Watchdog
2015-06-23T18:18:00.000+02:00
The provincial financial regulator has added four new unauthorized trading platforms to its warning list
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French Watchdog Warns Against its Own Fake Clone Scam Website
2015-04-22T17:00:46.000+02:00
Illegally using the name and logo of a regulator to gain referral commissions is a whole new level of criminal entrepreneurial audacity.
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French Financial Watchdogs Update List of Unauthorized Forex Brokers
2015-03-24T16:56:41.000+02:00
France’s financial regulators, the Autorité des Marchés Financiers and the ACPR, have released a list of 65 websites offering forex trading without authorisation to provide financial services in the country.
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European Regulators Cross Unregulated Binary Options & Forex Providers
2014-12-23T17:10:07.000+02:00
European regulators are issuing updated warning messages as the number of unauthorized binary options and forex providers targeting clients within the Euro Zone has been growing steadily in recent months.
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Quebec AMF Issues an Updated Binary Options Warning List
2014-11-14T23:45:55.000+02:00
According to one of the provincial Canadian regulators, residents of Quebec should avoid dealing with a list of 36 off exchange binary options providers offering unauthorized trading to Canadian residents.
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Exclusive: Poland Financial Regulator’s Forex Profitability Survey Results Unmasked
2014-10-29T18:59:44.000+02:00
Forex Magnates reporters reached out to a player in the local market to delve deeper into the reasons for the high client loss ratio with 81% of local traders have experienced losses on their trading accounts.
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Who Got Banned in Australia and How Many Traders Lost? Read Our Best Stories of the Week
2014-10-19T11:24:36.000+02:00
Forex Magnates spotlights the recent industry’s news you must know all about this week, from a global broker changing its pricing model in a couple of countries to a British CFD broker gaining a license in Cyprus.
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AMF Publishes Four-Year FX Study, 89% of Investors Experiencing Losses
2014-10-13T13:56:51.000+02:00
Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has issued an announcement warning investors of the potential dangers of trading FX, following a mounting number of complaints from investors.
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AMF Updates Swat List of Binary Options Providers Retail Traders Should Avoid
2014-09-24T10:43:57.000+02:00
Almost four dozen names are added to the AMF's list of unauthorized brokers. Regulations and other deterrents are not slowing down the race-to-market between binary providers amongst whom rogues dwell.
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Exclusive: French TV Show Exposes Two Binary Options WLs - Royal De Bank & Futurmarket
2014-09-05T00:44:09.000+02:00
Multiple independent sources are confirming to Forex Magnates about an investigative report on French television exposing two binary options white labels targeting French clients - Royal De Bank and Futurmarket.
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Breaking: A Dozen Unregulated Binary Options Brokers Bank Accounts Frozen, May Face Closure
2014-08-20T11:51:47.000+02:00
Forex Magnates has learned from informed sources that approximately dozen Israel and Cyprus based Binary Options brands, targeting mostly the French market, have been freezing or closing their bank accounts.
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Binary Options from Royal De Bank and Futur Markets Blacklisted by FINMA
2014-08-15T09:25:48.000+02:00
After Luxembourg's local financial authority Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier has exposed the companies last month, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority joins the scrutiny.
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Quebec's AMF Issues Warning against Unauthorized Activity of 24 Companies in Canada
2014-08-12T19:17:46.000+02:00
Canada’s Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has issued a warning to Quebec investors about the use of forex and binary options platforms, specifically citing 24 companies that are presently unauthorized in Canada.
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AMF Updates List of Binary Options Providers Not Authorized in France, Names 79 websites
2014-05-23T12:30:32.000+02:00
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers has warned of seventy nine binary options websites that it deemed to have not yet obtained any authorization to operate in France, suggesting residents not respond to their offers.
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Canada Binary Options Alerts: BCSC Warns of TradeQuicker, & TradeRush Warned of by FCAA
2014-05-22T10:32:58.000+02:00
BCSC has added TradeQuicker.com to their investment caution list, urging BC residents to exercise extreme caution, same day the Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority (FCAA) of Saskatchewan warns of TradeRush.com
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FSMA Issues Statement Warning Public Against Unauthorized Activities of EZ Trader
2014-03-18T11:32:25.000+02:00
Belgium’s Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) has issued a warning to the public against the activities of binary trader EZ Trader, whose firm offers a variety of risky and unauthorized services.
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Italian Regulator Explains Issuing Warning Against Binary Options Brokers
2014-03-05T19:40:14.000+02:00
The Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa views Binary Options trading as "bets" and therefore warned the Italian public against a number of brokers that operated Italian support websites.
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