Borsa Italiana’s ETF, ETC, ETN, and open funds markets have informed that they have registered a strong second quarter reaching €66.47 billion, a 7.1% increase compared to the same period last year, according to ETFplus 2018 report. 52 new instruments listed in the second quarter of 2018, including two open funds, totalling 1276 instruments available…
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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 GoldTech Media Services OU t/a Glenmore Investments. GoldTech Media Services OU is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and…
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Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes has also announced today that Chinese-speaking brokers and integrators can now access all necessary information in their native language. MetaTrader 5 is gaining momentum in East Asia: over a million traders and hundreds of brokers from China, Hong Kong and Singapore already use various versions of the trading platform. The launch…
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QuantHouse, the independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure solutions, has announced that Actant’s derivative trading solutions have now been added to the QuantHouse API Ecosystem. Actant’s trading solutions deliver unique algorithmic programming flexibility and control to proprietary trading firms, market makers, investment banks…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Classic Brand Europe. 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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The following article was written by ATFX Chief Analyst of Asia Pacific, Martin Lam. The US non-farm payroll population reported 157,000 in July, a sharp drop from the previous month's 213,000 and the expected 190,000. The data disappointed the market and caused the dollar to fall. Fortunately, the US unemployment rate fell back to 3.9%, the…
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Continuing a somewhat troubling downward trend (see chart below), Copenhagen based Retail FX broker Saxo Bank has released data indicating that client FX and multi asset trading volumes in its system decreased by 17% during July, totaling $316 billion versus $380 billion in June. Within that total FX trading volumes were down 19%, to $226 billion,…
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Coinsource, the Bitcoin ATM operator, has just announced that it has added 17 new machines in Florida, surpassing the 200 machine milestone. With five machines already in Jacksonville, the network is expanding within the state to meet increasing consumer demand. Coinsource is the first ATM operator to reach over 200 machines and recently announced that…
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After reporting record results in Q1 things seems to have cooled off somewhat during Q2 at X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB). X Trade Brokers, which operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub trading platform, reported that Q2 2018 Revenues came in PLN 84.2 million (USD $22.8 million), down 26% from Q1's record at…
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Non-Zero (www.non-zero.io), which recently announced the Ethereum main-net launch of its retail financial markets blockchain platform, has announced that it has continued to build its management team. The company is led by Hadi Kabalan, as CEO. He has multiple years of experience in the tech and financial industries, holding the title of Executive Director at…
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