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FMA department director Peter Braumüller elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS)
Peter Braumüller elected Chairman of the Executive Committee
The Austrian government’s internationally coordinated “stability package for the financial markets” creates security and protects domestic financial institutions and their customers from dangerous effects of the worldwide financial crisis
The “stability package for the financial markets” offers the federal government all the instruments which would be required for the state to provide immediate assistance to a financial institution.
FMA approves amendment to the trading rules of Wiener Börse: suspension of trading upon price changes of 10% or more, temporary short-selling prohibitions
Petition from Wiener Börse AG for amendment to the trading rules approved.
Austrian Financial Market Authority FMA has with immediate effect prohibited the Austrian branch of “Kaupthing Bank hf” from accepting customer funds and frozen all savings deposits in Austrian accounts
Kaupthing Bank hf
Austria’s Financial Market Authority FMA withdraws licence of investment services provider Fundpromoter Investment AG
Fundpromoter Investment AG
FMA releases a package of measures to prevent market abuse in the form of “short selling”. The legal requirement to report suspicious transactions is explained in an FMA Circular.
Action to stop short selling constituting market abuse due to current developments in international financial markets and their impact on domestic regulated markets.
FMA takes measures to clamp down on market abuse in the form of short selling
Programme for monitoring trading activities
Lehman Brothers file for bankruptcy protection – joint statement concerning impact on Austrian financial institutions
Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy protection
FMA repudiates the repeated false factual statements or misinterpretations of facts by Meinl Bank
Correction of false statements.
Financial Market Authority FMA publishes a “Circular on Identification and Verification of Identity” to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing
Circular offers credit institutions help in interpreting the tighter identification provisions.