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 Hakopa, Williams and Partners. Hakopa, Williams and Partners is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying…
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SIX Swiss Exchange has welcomed Luzerner Kantonalbank AG (LUKB) as a new issuer of structured products. LUKB has been offering its customers structured investment products as a complement to traditional forms of investment for more than ten years. For the first time, it will now issue its own structured investment solutions for a broad investment…
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Information giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) has announced that it has partnered with specialist firm Seabury TFX to develop a new marketplace for trade finance in Asia. ‘Receivables Board’ is now available through Thomson Reuters Eikon App Studio platform to facilitate the trading of Trade Receivables. The new application provides trade finance solutions for institutional investors…
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TradeTech Group, the newly formed financial division of Playtech (LON:PTEC), has integrated Brokeree Liquidity Bridge into the core of its TradeTech Alpha brand. The company partnered with Brokeree Solutions, technology provider for forex brokers, to enhance its liquidity and risk management offering. The new liquidity solution is a unique simbios of top-tier liquidity and high-grade risk…
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IronX, the new Crypto Exchange joint venture between global online broker IronFX Group and EmurgoHK, creator of the Cardano Blockchain, has announced it has been awarded full regulatory license approval by the Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). This license allows IronX to operate as a fully regulated exchange for the trading of cryptocurrencies, as part…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that a number of EU based Retail FX and CFD brokers have been sending out emails to their clients and IBs/Affiliates, reminding them that they cannot formally market out-of-EU accounts to clients. But, reminding them that the clients may themselves, of their own initiative, seek out foreign brokers and open…
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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 Anahera and Partners. Anahera and Partners is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) has announced a new way for customers to access cash on the go, using only their smartphone or watch at 2,400 ATMs across Australia. ANZ customers will be able to withdraw cash from ANZ ATMs using their preferred mobile payments device instead of plastic cards across…
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Retail Forex broker Alpari has just announced that it has added Cesar Valencia (Chile) and Renan Raminelli (Brazil) to the team of analysts at Alpari Research & Analysis Limited; one of the companies under the international Alpari brand. Cesar Valencia has been working in finance for more than 8 years. Before joining Alpari, he worked…
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CLS, the market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, has just announced that Chief Executive Officer David Puth has decided to step down after leading the company since 2012. Chairman Kenneth Harvey will act as interim CEO until a successor is named. Puth will remain with CLS through 30 November to ensure a…
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