Global online brokerage firm Amana Capital has announced that in line with its strategy to provide additional unique products and services to its clients, the brokerage services group is adding support for ZuluTrade. The new product available to the broker’s customers is a pioneer in social auto-trading for forex and CFDs. ZuluTrade will be added to…
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EGX Chairman, Mohamed Farid, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Dr. Hassan ElKalla, Chairman, Cairo for Investment and Real Estate Development (CIRA) as step forwards within the efforts to raise the financial awareness as a sustainable base in the financial literacy. This MOU aims at raising the financial awareness and enhancing financial literacy…
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The EBRD has just informed that it is bringing together its energy and infrastructure teams in a consolidated Sustainable Infrastructure group headed by Nandita Parshad as Managing Director. Ms Parshad is currently Managing Director for Energy and Natural Resources at the Bank and in her new role will lead the Bank’s engagement in environmental, transport…
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UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company Crypto Exchange Pro. Crypto Exchange Pro is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has just announced that it has signed two cooperation frameworks, respectively with the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR) of France to promote innovation in their respective markets. This will lead to increased exchanges regarding innovative trends, regulatory issues and any…
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The following article was written by FXTM Senior Staff Writer Nikola Grozdanovic. The 14th of November, 2018, was a landmark day for Brexit and the markets. The UK’s Prime Minister Theresa May held an emergency cabinet meeting to seek approval for her long-anticipated draft Brexit deal. Months of negotiations, protests and persistent questions surrounding the…
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Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI), has announced that it has launched an aggregate bond service to help clients access fixed income trade data that is available as a result of MiFID II in a single, simple aggregated data feed. The trade data from approved publication arrangements (APAs) and multilateral trading…
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FCA regulated online CFDs broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has continued to make purchases of its own stock pursuant to a recently announced share buyback. The company announced that last week it acquired a total of 30,455 PLUS shares, at an average share price of £12.744, for a layout of £388,119. That brings the grand total of shares…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that ASIC licensed Australia-based Retail FX brokerage group USGFX has taken a major step toward Europe, setting up a UK subsidiary called Union Standard International Group Limited (we'll call it USGFX UK). The company had applied for and received an FCA license for USGFX UK, which became effective on November 5.…
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Nodal Exchange and IncubEx have announced the successful launch of their first tranche of North American Environmental contracts. The new contracts, which mark the expansion of Nodal Exchange’s products into the environmental markets sector, include futures and options on: California Carbon Allowances, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Allowances (RGGI), New Jersey Solar Renewable Energy Certificates, PJM…
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