Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI), has just informed the public that it is enhancing the WM/Reuters Thai Baht Spot FX Benchmarks with data sourced from Matching, Refinitiv’s anonymous central limit order book. This has allowed the Thai Baht (THB) and Thai Baht Offshore (TOF) benchmarks to become ‘trade’ currencies using the…
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LXDX, a digital asset exchange focusing on derivatives based on underlying cryptocurrency assets, has just announced that it has opened its platform access. Traders will be able to create accounts and begin Know Your Customer (KYC) processes ahead of launch next month. LXDX will be offering derivative products for speculative and hedge trading on crypto assets…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Capital Markets. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics to…
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Lodestar Ecosystems Limited, a supplier of intelligent chatbot software to the capital markets industry, has just informed the public about the launch of its Change Monitor. Dr Anthony Edwards, Chief Scientific Officer commented on the news: Basically, at a high level, the LodeBot (the intelligent chatbot from Lodestar) can now provide change monitors that monitor…
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The broker-dealer Dinosaur Financial Group, a subsidiary of Dinosaur Group Holdings LLC, has just announced the launch of its new Global Foreign Exchange (FX) Trading Service. Glenn Grossman, Founder and Chairman of Dinosaur, said: We are pleased to announce our new FX service. With tier-1 banks increasingly ‘derisking’, we find ourselves at an evolutionary point…
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The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has informed investors that it has suspended GIF Capital Ltd's ASP license. The complete text of the regulator’s decision can be seen below: Announcement date: 23.11.2018 CySEC Decision date: 23.11.2018 Regarding: GIF Capital Ltd Legislation: The Regulating Companies Providing Administrative Services and Related Matters Law Subject: Suspension of…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Savings Options Trading. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…
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VNX Exchange, the trading platform for tokenized venture capital assets has just informed the public that it has teamed up with the University of Luxembourg’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) to create a new standard of security for the market ecosystem for digital assets. The resulting technology may halve the global costs…
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Huobi, the Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange and asset management service provider, has announced that it has been granted a full Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) license by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC). After completing the application process, Huobi can now store and transmit value belonging to others using blockchain technology. Gibraltar’s Minister for Commerce, The Hon…
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has reminded financial advisers, who are currently authorised, to make sure that they are on ASIC’s Financial Advisers Register no later than 31 December 2018, before new professional standards requirements take effect. Professional standards reforms for financial advisers were introduced in March 2017 to raise the education, training…
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