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August 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CFTC to retain current de minimis level for swap dealer definition

FIA and the FIA Principal Traders Group (together, FIA) have announced that they have urged the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to retain the current $8 billion de minimis threshold for swap dealer registration and to modify the calculation methodology to better align it with the goals of a well-regulated derivatives market. Among the modifications,…

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clone firm FCA warning
August 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Ardent Asset Advisors LP clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Ardent Asset Advisors LP. 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…

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FlexTrade adds Paul Beatty to team
August 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Broadridge hires Alastair McGill as General Manager MRC Solutions Business

The global fintech company Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) has just announced that it has appointed Alastair McGill as General Manager of its Messaging, Reconciliation and Connectivity solutions business (MRC). McGill, who holds over 25 years of experience in the financial technology sector, will now hold responsibility for the strategy and execution of Broadridge’s MRC…

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August 14, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Plus500 hires Google veteran Ari Shotland as CTO

Leading Retail FX and CFDs broker Plus500 has announced that it has hired Google executive Ari Shotland as the company's new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Ari Shotland had been with Google Israel for the past 11 years, as Senior Staff Software Engineer & Tech Lead Manager. He holds BSc and MSc degrees from Haifa's Technion. In…

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STOXX Low Carbon products licensed to Italian bank IMI
August 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

STOXX licenses fully automated Blockchain Index to Coincapital

STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, has just announced that it has licensed the STOXX® Yewno Developed Markets Blockchain Index to Toronto, Canada-based Coin Capital Investment Management Inc. (Coincapital). The index uses artificial intelligence to select its constituents. It is comprised…

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gkfx trading
August 14, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: GKFX adds Mazhar Manzoor as Compliance Director

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated retail FX and CFDs broker GKFX has continued to reshape is management team, adding noted compliance expert and consultant Mazhar Manzoor as the company's new Compliance Director and Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO). Mazhar Manzoor has spent the past 15 years as a compliance consultant to financial institutions in…

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First Republic Bank joins S&P 500 index, replaces Scana Corporation
August 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Solactive launches Solactive Industry 4.0 Index

Solactive has just announced the launch of the Solactive Industry 4.0 Index, an index tracking the performance of companies that are operating in any of the following segments: Advanced Robotics, Augmented Reality & 3D Printing, Cloud & Big Data, Cyber Security and Internet of Things (IoT) (together the “Index Categories”). From each of the five…

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Hybrid cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform BBOD goes live
August 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hybrid cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform BBOD goes live

Hybrid cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform, Blockchain Board of Derivatives (BBOD), has launched Friday, 3 August in partnership with GMEX Technologies enabled by its GMEX Fusion Technology Suite. What is a Hybrid trading platform? Until now, cryptocurrency traders have had to choose between centralised and decentralised trading platforms, with no options in between. Centralised exchanges process…

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