New Zealand FMA warns against Haig, Lafferty & Partners LeapRate

August 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

New Zealand FMA warns against Haig, Lafferty & Partners

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has just issued a warning against a scam company Haig, Lafferty & Partners. Haig, Lafferty & Partners Associated entities: Securities Authority of New Zealand Address: 5th Floor, Comsmart Building, 53 Boulcott Street, Wellington 6011 Website: www.haiglafferty.com Phone: +64 4 8302404 Email: [email protected] Reason for warning: The FMA has received reports…

Fed to inject billions to bolster liquidity, while cryptos see temporary boost

August 22, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Fed Minutes To End Dollar Pullback?

The following article was written by Jasper Lawler, Senior Market Analyst at FCA regulated broker LCG. Wednesday sees the release of the minutes from the latest FOMC meeting and could serve as a reminder why the dollar is a good buy. Dollar bulls would needs much a reminder as the buck enters its fourth consecutive down…

August 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters Eikon provides QUICK market commentary services

Information giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) has announced that it is providing paid market commentary services on Japanese equity and derivatives through a new collaboration with Japanese financial information firm, QUICK. The services are available now to global clients outside of Japan using Thomson Reuters Eikon. QUICK 's equity commentary provides content for Japanese stock market…

August 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SFC fines HPI Forex Limited $2 million for regulatory breaches

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has just announced that it has reprimanded and fined HPI Forex Limited (HPI) $2 million for mis-handling client money. The SFC’s disciplinary action came after an admission by HPI that it had transferred client money up to $8 million to the accounts of its overseas brokers between…

August 22, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

CFH Clearing hires Sucden executive Michael Bleys as VP Sales EMEA

Continuing a year-long hiring spree, FX liquidity and Prime of Prime solutions provider CFH Clearing has announced that it has bolstered its institutional sales team with the appointment of Michael Bleys as VP Sales (EMEA). Michael Bleys joins CFH from Sucden Financial, where he spent over five years in the firm’s e-FX division. His career…

$Blockchain technology firm ShapeShift acquires Bitfract$

August 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Blockchain technology firm ShapeShift acquires Bitfract

Swiss blockchain technology company ShapeShift AG has announced that it has acquired Austin-based software firm Bitfract. Bitfract has built a tool that allows users to trade bitcoin into dozens of digital assets in a single transaction. The Bitfract team made expert use of ShapeShift’s open API to build a product that we ourselves were planning to…

August 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

New Zealand FMA warns against Capital Management

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has just issued a warning against a scam company Capital Management. Capital Management Address: 9 Tampines Grande, Singapore 528735 Website: www.capitalmgt.com Phone: +6531080737 Email: [email protected] Reason for warning: The FMA has received a report from about Capital Management cold calling New Zealand residents and offering investment opportunities. The regulator has…

August 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Radcliffe and Young Asset Management firm

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 Radcliffe and Young Asset Management. Radcliffe and Young Asset Management is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is…

August 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

OKEx joins SharesPost’s global security token network

OKEx has announced that it joining GLASS, the Global Liquidity And Settlement System developed by SharesPost. When GLASS becomes operational, OKEx will have both compliant access to investors in the U.S. and other crypto trading markets and the ability to pool liquidity with other GLASS exchanges on a trading pair by trading pair basis. We…

August 21, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Generali Brokers clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Generali Brokers. 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 to…