{"id":2017,"date":"2005-06-07T14:07:59","date_gmt":"2005-06-07T12:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2016-05-12T14:10:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T12:10:12","slug":"benson-raymond-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/benson-raymond-acquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Benson &#038; Raymond Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p class=\"bodytext\">Pursuant to Article 24 para 6 of the Wertpapieraufsichtsgesetz (WAG; Austrian Securities Supervision Act) the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) is entitled to inform the general public by publication in an official bulletin published nationwide that a particular company is not authorized to provide certain financial services (as stipulated in Section 1 para 1 no. 19 of the Bankwesengesetz (BWG; Austrian Banking Act)).<\/p><p class=\"bodytext\">With the announcement in the official gazette &ldquo;Amtsblatt zur Wiener Zeitung&rdquo; on<br>\n07 June 2005 the FMA makes use of its right and warns against doing any financial services business with the following company<\/p><p class=\"bodytext\"><strong>Benson &amp; Raymond Acquisitions:<\/strong><br>\nalleged location at<br>\n201 California Street, Suite 100,<br>\nSan Francisco, California 94111, USA<\/p><p class=\"bodytext\"><strong>Goldman Taylor Associates<\/strong><br>\nalleged location at<br>\n796 Fifth Avenue,<br>\nNew York , NY 10021-8401, USA<\/p><p class=\"bodytext\"><strong>Oakmont Financial Mergers<\/strong><br>\nalleged location at<br>\n130 Bellevue Avenue,<br>\nNew Port RI, 02840, USA<\/p><p class=\"bodytext\"><strong>Nationwide Merger &amp; Acquisitions<\/strong><br>\nalleged location at<br>\n3178 Johnson Ferry Road Northeast,<br>\nAtlanta, GA 30303, USA<\/p><p class=\"bodytext\">These companies are not authorized by the FMA. Therefore it is not entitled to provide investment advice concerning client funds, to manage client portfolios in accordance with mandates given by investors or to broker business opportunities for the acquisition or sale of certain financial instruments.<\/p><p class=\"bodytext\">Furthermore the FMA informs pursuant to the Article 24 para 6 of the WAG, that the institutions<\/p><p class=\"bodytext\"><strong>International Regulatory Commission<\/strong><br>\nalleged location at<br>\n2505 S. State Street<br>\nSalt Lake City, UT 84115-3109, USA<\/p><p class=\"bodytext\"><strong>International Exchange Regulatory Commission<\/strong><br>\nalleged location at<br>\n2690 Fairlawn Drive,<br>\nWinston-Salem NC, 27106, USA<\/p><p class=\"bodytext\"><strong>International Compliance Commission<\/strong><br>\nalleged location at<br>\n8968 US Highway 64 Suite 403,<br>\nArlington, TN 38002, USA<\/p><p class=\"bodytext\">are no legal financial market authorities, which are authorized to give information about any kind of capital market agents.<\/p><p class=\"bodytext\">This action by the FMA comes as a result of several inquiries and complaints by investors in Austria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FMA warns investors against the conclusion of financial services requiring a licence with this provider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-warning"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Benson &amp; 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