February 1, 2018: Financial Commission, a leading external dispute resolution (EDR) organization, operated by FinaCom PLC, and serving the online forex and CFD brokerage industry, is pleased to announce a successful participation as an exhibitor at the 2018 IFX EXPO Asia.

IFX EXPO event in Hong Kong saw more than 2,500 attendees, 60+ Industry Professional Speakers and over 100 confirmed exhibitors and representatives from hundreds of financial services providers starting from the biggest IBs to top-tier retail brokers, asset managers, technology leaders, banks, hedge funds and regtech start-ups.

 

Participation in the IFX EXPO Asia event supports the industry and provides market participants with the chance to learn more about the Financial Commission’s role in the industry.

This includes how the organization is helping its members improve the services they offer to clients using a 3rd party dispute resolution process afforded via membership status and certification services within the Financial Commission.

Our representatives met in person with event delegates and helped answer questions while increasing industry awareness of Financial Commission’s activity.

Commenting about the event participation, Financial Commission Chairman, Peter Tatarnikov said, “We are proud to announce another successful participation in IFX EXPO and want to thank all our members and delegates at the event that showed support.”

 

“The Financial Commission has a proven business model for some time already, considering the number of brokers who have joined as members and technology providers who have undergone our certification, thus showing great necessity in services we providing for our clients from the side of Forex market participants.”

Mr. Tatarnikov added: “Our proven approach to remedying complaints and commitment to education and best practices are some of the reasons that significant interest continues to be shown from both brokerages and platform technology developers who see the benefits of joining Financial Commission to enhance their own self-regulatory efforts”.

June 6, 2017: Financial Commission, a leading external dispute resolution (EDR) organization, operated by FinaCom PLC, and serving the online forex and CFD brokerage industry, is pleased to announce a successful participation as an exhibitor at the 2017 iFX Expo International that just concluded last week in Cyprus.

As one of the largest industry conferences attended by the online brokerage industry, the iFX Expo International event in Cyprus saw over 3500 attendees and industry delegates including regulators, legal and compliance experts and financial technology and brokerage companies.   

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Located again this year at the Spyrou Kypriannou stadium, Financial Commission’s booth was located near the iFX Expo entrance enabling our staff to exhibit and interact directly with attendees. Financial Commission Chairman, Peter Tatarnikov was interviewed by local media agencies, sharing insights about industry developments and Financial Commissions’ expansion.

 

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Artem Karpichenko – Senior Operation Oficer

Michael Greenberg – FinaCom Board Member, CEO Finance Magnates

Peter Tatarnikov – FinaCom Chairman

Alexey Pavlenko – FinaCom Board Member

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Michael Greenberg – FinaCom Board Member, CEO Finance Magnates

Peter Tatarnikov – FinaCom Chairman

Alexey Pavlenko – FinaCom Board Member

 


On day 1 of the event, May 24th, Mr. Tatarnikov participated as a guest speaker on the Regulation panel that was part of the event agenda. Mr. Tatarnikov joined a diverse panel of industry experts and talked about common regulatory challenges faced by the global forex and CFD brokerage community.

Mr. Tatarnikov commented: “iFX Expo International 2017 proved to reconfirm many of our views on the direction of global regulatory changes. Whether a company is unregulated or licensed in several jurisdictions, we have demonstrated that membership with Financial Commission can help improve client experiences in the inevitable cases when dispute resolution is needed and while enhancing broker’s own compliance protocols.”

Mr. Tatarnikov added: “Our proven approach to remedying complaints and commitment to education and best practices are some of the reasons that significant interest continues to be shown from both brokerages and platform technology developers who see the benefits of joining Financial Commission to enhance their own self-regulatory efforts. We are very pleased to have participated at this important industry event and extend our thanks to the organizers, media and our members and supporters.”

 

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Peter Tatarnikov – FinaCom Chairman

 

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Peter Tatarnikov – FinaCom Chairman

Maor Lahav – FinaCom DRC Member, COO and co-founder of Panda Trading Systems

The event concluded on day two with a speech by the, Dimitra Kalogerou, Chairman of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), where the theme of MiFID II was emphasized as radically changing European markets as it goes into effect in January 2018.

In addition to MiFID II changes – which was a major theme throughout the event – other global topics related to best execution in Forex and off-exchange markets were also on the forefront of many discussions.

Financial Commission observed that while more regulations are coming to different jurisdictions, there is also an increased need for self-regulatory efforts in both established and evolving regulatory hubs as companies strive to demonstrate and maintain high standards of compliance.

Following a successful event at the iFX Expo in Hong Kong earlier this year, Financial Commission is pleased to report the same momentum carrying into iFX Expo in Cyprus based on the feedback from market participants who showed interest in our membership-based organization. For more information about our membership requirements, please contact us.

April 12, 2017, Financial Commission, a leading External Dispute Resolution (EDR) organization, operated by FinaCom PLC, servicing online brokerages and technology providers within the financial services industry is pleased to announce its recent successful participation at the Asia Trading Summit in Shanghai.

asia-summit1 Financial Commission took part in Asia Trading Summit in Shanghai on March 29th through the 31st at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, with over 3,000 professional traders and industry executives and more than 50 exhibitors present.

Our representatives met in person with event delegates and helped answer questions while increasing industry awareness of Financial Commission’s efficient dispute resolution process and membership benefits.

In addition, there were over 20 senior financial experts who participated in various panels and theme-focused workshops.

 

During the event, many asian oriented brokerages indicated interest in applying for membership with the Financial Commission, reflecting an increase year-over-year compared to the 2016 iFX EXPO Asia in Hong Kong, as interest in client education and maintaining positive customer relationships remains of paramount importance.

 

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Lidia Bekenova – Senior Relationship Manager

Roberto d’Ambrosio – CEO Alpari Research & Analysis

Artem Karpichenko – Senior Operation Officer

Lidia Bekenova – Senior Relationship Manager

Artem Karpichenko – Senior Operation Officer

Tai Jiang – Founder and CEO of FX168

 

Commenting about the event participation, Financial Commission Chairman, Peter Tatarnikov said, “We are proud to announce another successful participation in Asia Trading Summit in Shanghai and want to thank all our members and delegates at the event that showed support.”

“We are excited to see such great interest from Asian market participants in services we providing. The participation in Asia Trading Summit shows great necessity in mediation services we providing for our Members from the side of Asian brokers and this is the first step to expand in Asian region helping native companies to handle dispute resolution and improve its overall activity. Thus, we are expecting significant growth in the number of Asian brokerages becoming members of the Financial Commission by the next year.”

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Mr. Tatarnikov added: “Financial Commission is well positioned to accommodate demand from firms in Asia that want the benefits of providing their clients with fair and efficient dispute resolution by becoming members.”

To learn more about how Financial Commission provides companies and their clients with an effective dispute resolution channel visit FinancialCommission.org or contact us to learn more about membership requirements.

March 7, 2017, Financial Commission, a leading External Dispute Resolution (EDR) organization, operated by FinaCom PLC, servicing online brokerages and technology providers within the financial services industry is pleased to announce its recent successful participation at the iFX EXPO Asia in Hong Kong.

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Financial Commission took part in iFX EXPO Asia in Hong Kong on February 21st through the 23rd at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, with over 80 exhibitors and sponsors and more than 2,500 attendees present.

Our representatives met in person with event delegates and helped answer questions while increasing industry awareness of Financial Commission’s efficient dispute resolution process and membership benefits.

In addition, there were over 30 industry speakers who participated in various panels and theme-focused workshops, including Andrew Ralich, a member of Financial Commission’s Dispute Resolution Committee (DRC), among other distinguished industry figures.

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Anatoly Bulanov – FinaCom Head of Dispute Resolution Committee 

Michael Greenberg – FinaCom Board Member, CEO Finance Magnates

Artem Karpichenko – Senior Operation Officer

Anatoly Bulanov – FinaCom Head of Dispute Resolution Committee 

Artem Karpichenko – Senior Operation Officer

Lidia Bekenova – Senior Relationship Manager

 

During the event, at least 8 brokers indicated interest in applying for membership with the Financial Commission, reflecting an increase year-over-year compared to the 2016 iFX EXPO Asia in Hong Kong, as interest in client education and maintaining positive customer relationships remains of paramount importance.

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Anatoly Bulanov – FinaCom Head of Dispute Resolution Committee 

Andrew Ralich – Co-Founder oneZero Financial, 

Anatoly Bulanov – FinaCom Head of Dispute Resolution Committee 

Lidia Bekenova – Senior Relationship Manager

Commenting about the event participation, Financial Commission Chairman, Peter Tatarnikov said, “We are pleased to have exhibited at yet another successful event in Hong Kong at this year’s iFX EXPO Asia and extend many thanks to our members and delegates at the event that showed support.”

“Asia remains an important region for Financial Commission to support due to the high growth of new market entrants from mainland China, and an evolving regulatory landscape across ASEAN economies for brokers and trading technology developers.”

Mr. Tatarnikov added: “Financial Commission is well positioned to accommodate demand from firms in Asia that want the benefits of providing their clients with fair and efficient dispute resolution by becoming members.”

To learn more about how Financial Commission provides companies and their clients with an effective dispute resolution channel visit FinancialCommission.org or contact us to learn more about membership requirements.

October 12, 2016 – Kiev: Peter Tatarnikov, Chairman of the Financial Commission (FinaCom PLC) – leading External Dispute Resolution (EDR) organization servicing online brokerages and technology providers within the financial services industry, took part in the press lunch dated for discussion of the bill on forex market regulation in Ukraine. During the event such topics as lack of the legislation regulating forex market in Ukraine, vulnerability of private investors, the most effective approaches to regulation of the forex market, the liability of Ukraine towards investors and others were discussed.

During a press lunch its participants announced their vision of the forex market regulation problem on the territory of Ukraine, shared foreign experience, answered journalists’ questions and gave several examples of forex regulation in Western countries, in particular, Peter expressed his opinion concerning necessity of formation of the compensational fund, which would enable client of financial services providers to call in their funds in case of market participants bankruptcy. The event was also attended by Roberto d’Ambrosio – CEO of Alpari Research, Vitaly Shapran, member of the Executive Committee of Ukrainian society of financial analysts (USFA) and Natalia Evseeva – Director of Alpari official partner in Kiev. Press lunch has also been widely reported in many Ukrainian media, including: Finance.ua, Business capital, Hubs, Business channel and other media.

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It should be noted that the issues under discussion today are the most relevant due to the fact that legal mechanisms of regulation of forex market in Ukraine is not developed what does not allow to create necessary conditions for development of and integration into the global forex market, even in comparison with neighbouring countries such as Belarus or Russia, where the laws on the regulation of the financial markets was taken not so long ago.

Minsk, July 22, 2016: Financial Commission, operated by FinaCom Plc, and catering to the financial services industry as an external dispute resolution (EDR) organization, today announces the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Association of Financial Market Development (ARFIN).

The MoU provides a basis to develop favourable conditions to support the Foreign Exchange market for ARFIN members and was signed during a meeting between Financial Commission Chairman, Peter Tatarnikov, ARFIN Chairman, Alexey Sidorov and representatives of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus.

The MoU will enable cooperation to improve the dispute resolution process in Belarus, and the exchange of information between both organizations.

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Tatarnikov and  ARFIN Chairman, Alexey Sidorov

 

Before the MoU was signed during the meeting, mutual channels of cooperation were discussed and explored, including how the proposed framework would best suit all parties involved including underlying market participants.

The National Bank of the Republic of Belarus has been active in implementing new decrees and related rules with regard to forex companies,  and which are support by ARFIN in the region.

In addition, the framework of the MoU will enable both parties to adjust the type of information exchanged and conduct mutual consultations on industry issues that will be carried out together.

More information about ARFIN and its membership structure, including contact information is available on arfin.by which is the organization’s website.

The MoU reflects Financial Commission’s ability to collaborate with national and independent industry associations, such as ARFIN, in order provide value through such synergies within the financial services industry internationally.

To learn more this MoU and about Financial Commission, please contact us or visit FinancialCommission.org.