The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced that it has reprimanded and fined EFG Bank AG (EFG Bank) $2 million for dealing in futures contracts without the required registration. The SFC found that between 1 April 2003 and 22 November 2016, EFG Bank executed 139 transactions in offshore listed index options for 11 clients without the required registration to deal in futures contracts. The SFC is of the opinion that EFG Bank's failure to ensure compliance with a registration requirement under the Securities and Futures Ordinance, amounting to a breach of the Code of Conduct, called into question the fitness and properness of EFG Bank as a regulated person. In deciding the disciplinary sanctions, the SFC took into account that: