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On April 6, 2017 at 13:00 in the office of the Association of Forex Dealers an extraordinary meeting of the General Meeting of SRO members will take place. At the meeting, it is planned to approve the annual report on the activities of the SRO of the AFD and approve the annual accounting reports of the SRO of the AFD and the audit report with the purpose of posting them on the official website of the SRO AFD in the information and telecommunications network “Internet” in accordance with paragraph 9 of Article 50.1 of the Federal Law of 22.04.1996 No. 39-FZ “On the securities market” and part 3 of Article 18 of Federal Law No. 223-FZ of July 13, 2015 “On Self-Regulating Organizations in the Sphere of the Financial Market”.

Ekaterina Gorlova was appointed adviser to the head of external communications of the Association of Forex Dealers since April 3, 2017.

March 27, 2017 in the conference hall of the Moscow City Duma head SRO “Association of forex dealers” Masharov EI. Took part in the Solemn ceremony of rewarding the winners of the XII “All-Russian Olympiad in financial literacy, financial market and protection of the rights of consumers of financial services for high school students”. The Olympics are held with the support of the Bank of Russia.

March 15, 2017 an extraordinary meeting of the General Meeting of members of the Association of Forex Dealers (Minutes No. 6 of March 15, 2017).
Following the meeting, the AFD Board elected:

Мирзеева Гузель Нургаяновна – генеральный директор ООО “Альпари Форекс”.

On March 15, 2017 at 11 o’clock in the office of the SRO of the AFD the meeting of the Extraordinary General Meeting of the SRO members of the AFD will be held.
In the agenda of the Assembly, the election of a member of the Board of the Association of Forex Dealers – a representative of the company Alpari Forex LLC.

College of the self-regulatory organization in the field of financial market that combines forex dealer Forex Dealer Association (Minutes № 13 dated 14.03.2017, the) decision on the admission of the Limited Liability Company “Alpari Forex” in the SRO members AFD.

On March 14, 2017 at 16 o’clock an extraordinary meeting of the Board of the AFD will be held, the following issues will be on the agenda of the meeting:

Принятие решения о приеме Общества с ограниченной ответственностью «Альпари Форекс» (ОГРН 1157746930582) в члены СРО АФД.

Назначение внеочередного Общего собрания членов СРО АФД на 15.03.2017 года.

The Association of Forex Dealers and FinPotrebSoyuz signed an agreement on cooperation in the field of supervision of the Russian Forex market.

The first and so far the only Russian forex-SRO, the Association of Forex Dealers (AFD), will join efforts in the field of financial supervision with the public organization FinPotrebSoyuz, after the new partners signed the corresponding agreement on cooperation on the eve.

On March 1, 2017, the AFD office signed an agreement on cooperation between the All-Russian Public Organization of Consumers “Union for the Protection of the Rights of Financial Services Consumers” (FinPotrebSoyuz) represented by the Chairman of the Board Igor Vladimirovich Kostikov and the Self-Regulating Organization in the Field of the Financial Market Combining forex Dealers Association of Forex Dealers In the person of the Head of Masharov Evgeny Ivanovich.

The self-regulating organization of forex dealers AFD increases the membership fee to 1.8 million rubles a year.

The only currently accredited association of Russian forex dealers continues to prepare for the launch of the regulated Forex market in Russia and while settling order in its yard. No later than yesterday (February 27, 2017) an extraordinary meeting of the Board of the Association of Forex Dealers (AFD) took place, following which it was decided to increase the monthly membership fee in the AFD to 150 thousand rubles, starting April 1 this year (1.8 Million rubles a year, or about 30 thousand US dollars).

On February 27, 2017, an extraordinary meeting of the Board of the Association of Foreign Exchange Dealers was held (Minutes No. 12 of February 27, 2017), following which a decision was taken to approve the Internal Standard. Conditions for membership in the AFD, including the amount or procedure for calculation, as well as the procedure for payment of the introductory Contribution and membership fees and the Internal Standard. The procedure for conducting an AFD audit of compliance by its members with the requirements of the legislation of the Russian Federation, regulatory acts of the Bank of Russia, basic standards, internal standards and other internal In the new edition.
From April 1, 2017, the monthly membership fee in the AFD will increase, which will amount to 150,000 rubles.

27 February 2017 The competence of the Committee to monitor the activities of members of the AFD include: Planning and conducting inspections of the members of the AFD, as well as candidates for membership of the AFD in accordance with the procedure established by the internal documents of the AFD; Sending requests and receiving answers […]

Что нового ждет рынок форекс в России? Какая судьба у форекс-компаний, не планирующих получать лицензию форекс-дилеров? Какую роль в процессе регулирования играет СРО?

The regulator intends to introduce requirements for information disclosure by offshore forex dealers offering their services in Russia. Now they may not comply with the law “On the Forex market”, which leads to violations of the rights of citizens

The collective of the AFD congratulates colleagues on the coming New Year! This year was marked by the formation of a regulated forex market in the Russian Federation! We are confident that next year licensed forex dealers will be able to start their activities!

Following the meeting of the Board:

1. The Limited Liability Company “Intercom-Audit-L” is appointed by the auditor to check the annual accounting (financial) statements of the AFD.

2. The schedule of inspections of AFD members for 2017 was approved.

Agenda:

1. Definition of the auditor for checking the annual accounting (financial) reporting of the SRO of the AFD.

2. Adoption of the schedule of inspections of SRO members of the AFD for 2017.

On December 22 and 23, 2016 in the SRO of the AFD for the members of the AFD under the leadership of S.P. Soboleva there will be seminars on the topics: IAS 488-P Accounting for derivative financial instruments and IAS 496-P Hedgi

For more than 20 years, the market of forex – retail electronic trading of currency pairs – in Russia has been left to itself. Thanks to this business was, albeit super-profitable for forex dealers, but had a reputation of marginal. The desire to raise the status of the market played a cruel joke with forex companies: effective January 1, 2016 tough amendments to the legislation actually deprived them of the opportunity to legally work in the Russian jurisdiction. “Kommersant” has found out, how the market has lived almost year at new regulation and on what counts in the future

The functions of the Committee for Standards include the development of proposals for the development of financial organizations, the harmonization of the basic standards developed by the SRO forex-dealers.