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Mar 01
Crowdfunding for Investors – Updated Investor Bulletin

The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Bulletin to educate investors about securities-based crowdfunding. Crowdfunding generally refers to a financing method in which money is raised through soliciting relatively small individual investments or contributions from a large number of people.  Companies can use Regulation Crowdfunding to offer and sell securities […]

Mar 01
Celebrity Involvement with SPACs – Investor Alert

The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA) cautions investors not to make investment decisions related to SPACs based solely on celebrity involvement.  Celebrities, from movie stars to professional athletes, can be found on TV, radio, and social media endorsing a wide variety of products and services.  Sometimes they are even involved in investment opportunities […]

Mar 01
Updated Investor Bulletin: Insider Transactions and Forms 3, 4, and 5

Jan. 26, 2021 The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Bulletin to help educate investors about SEC Forms 3, 4, and 5. The federal securities laws require certain individuals (such as officers, directors, and those that hold more than 10% of any class of a company’s securities, together we’ll call, […]

Mar 01
How to Read an 8-K

Jan. 26, 2021 A company has just released its quarterly earnings. Another company has auditor news that could raise a red flag, and a third company is filing for bankruptcy. Where can you find more facts? Information about these events and many more are found in a document called a current report on Form 8-K.  […]

Mar 01
Press release on the suspension of trading in Xior

ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS AUTHORITY, PUBLISHED IN APPLICATION OF ARTICLE 78 OF THE LAW OF 21 NOVEMBER 2017 Trading in the financial instruments of Xior, ISIN BE0974288202, on Euronext Brussels is suspended from 28/03/2018 at 08:35 CET until the publication of a press release with the results of a placement of shares […]

Mar 01
ESMA introduces measures against binary options and CFDs

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has decided to ban the offering of binary options and to introduce restrictions on the sale of CFDs (contracts for difference). ESMA is taking these measures in order to protect retail investors. More information on the measures introduced by ESMA. The FSMA issued a Regulation in 2016 establishing […]