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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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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August 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC disqualifies NSW SMSF auditor

Australian regulator ASIC has just announced that it has disqualified Keith Mar of NSW from being an approved self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) auditor for breaching independence requirements. ASIC found that Mr Mar had breached the auditor independence requirements of APES 110 Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants in auditing his own fund, the fund of…

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CoinBene starts trading Electroneum
August 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CoinBene starts trading Electroneum

The British mobile-based cryptocurrency Electroneum (ETN) will now trade in India, Brazil, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia after its listing on cryptocurrency exchange CoinBene. Within nine months of its launch in November 2017, CoinBene’s daily trading volume was more than $300 million. Electroneum will be paired with Bitcoin (BTC) under CoinBene’s trading rules, which see…

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