Category: Regulations

Sept. 25, 2020 The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Bulletin to provide investors information about business development companies, or BDCs, that are traded on national securities exchanges. It is important to understand them before investing.   What are BDCs? BDCs are a type of closed-end investment fund. They are […]

Sept. 25, 2020 The SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy is issuing this Investor Bulletin to provide investors information about interval funds. Interval funds are legally classified as closed-end funds, a type of investment company, but they have some distinctive features that make them different from typical closed-end funds. Some important features of interval […]

Sept. 17, 2020 The FBI Criminal Investigative Division and the Office of Investor Education and Advocacy of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) would like to warn consumers of a recent increase in fraudulent schemes targeting owners of timeshare properties in Mexico. These scams typically involve individuals alleging to be representatives of a brokerage firm, […]

On Friday, 19 November 2021, the Chairman of the FSMA and Vice-Chairman of IOSCO, Mr Jean-Paul Servais, spoke at a colloquium held at the Sorbonne University in Paris. The event was organized by the LabEx ReFi, a multidisciplinary research laboratory dedicated to the study and evaluation of regulatory policies. The objective of the laboratory is […]

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 Choice NV, ISIN BE 0974370026 on Euronext Brussels will re-open on 19/11/2021 at 11:30 CET. Source: FSMA

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 Choice NV ,ISIN BE0974370026, on Euronext Brussels is suspended upon request of the issuer from 18/11/2021 at 11:30 CET until the publication of a press release.   Source: […]

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 Care Property Invest, ISIN BE0974273055, on Euronext Brussels will re-open on 17/11/2021 at 14:00 CET. Source: FSMA

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 Care Property Invest , ISIN BE 0974273055, on Euronext Brussels is suspended from 17/11/2021 at 09:00 CET until the publication of a press release. Source: FSMA

During the last weeks, the FSMA continued to receive complaints from consumers concerning new fraudulent online trading platforms that are operating in the Belgian market. These trading platforms try to arouse consumers’ curiosity by placing scam ads on social media. In these fake ads, a (well-known) person often explains how to get rich quick. Trading […]

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 Nyrstar, ISIN BE0974294267 on Euronext Brussels will re-open on 10/11/2021 at 09:00 CET. Source: FSMA