SharesPost and Securitize team up to facilitate listing of security tokens LeapRate

August 24, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SharesPost and Securitize team up to facilitate listing of security tokens

SharesPost, the provider of liquidity solutions to the private growth asset class, has announced that it has partnered with Securitize, an end-to-end technology platform for tokenizing any asset, to enable security token issuers to list on the SharesPost platform. The partnership will help both investors and security token issuers by providing additional liquidity and accessibility…

August 23, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

The nine applications for Bitcoin ETFs - all rejected by the SEC

The SEC is serious about regulating the Bitcoin "market", it seems. The Security and Exchange Commission has just denied a total of nine Bitcoin ETF applications from several investors, including ProShares, Direxion and GraniteShares. The rejection of the nine applications by the three candidates was announced one day prior to the deadline (23rd August). ProShares…

August 23, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Base Finance clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Base Finance. 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…

August 23, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Osaka Exchange receives FBOT registration from CFTC

Osaka Exchange, Inc. (OSE) has announced that on August 22, 2018, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued an Order granting OSE registration as a Foreign Board of Trade (FBOT) under the U.S. Commodity Exchange Act. The registration permits OSE to provide trading participants located in the U.S. with direct access to OSE's trading…

Paysafe merchants can now automatically retrieve failed payment transactions

August 23, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CellPoint Mobile and Runtriz to provide payment capabilities

CellPoint Mobile, a global provider of sales and payment-side mobile technology solutions for the travel and hospitality sectors, has just announced that it has partnered with Runtriz to provide enterprise-level payment capabilities to the company's hotel guest experience mobile solutions. With CellPoint Mobile integrating its Velocity payment platform into Runtriz's suite of guest engagement solutions,…

White River Bancshares Company begins trading on OTCQX

August 23, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

OTC Markets Group welcomes Bank of San Francisco to OTCQX

OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of financial markets for 10,000 U.S. and global securities, has announced Bank of San Francisco (OTCQX: BSFO), a modern community bank headquartered in San Francisco, has qualified to trade on the OTCQX® Best Market. Bank of San Francisco was previously privately-held. Bank of San Francisco begins trading today…

August 23, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

European Energy Exchange records first trade in liquid milk futures

The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has announced that it has recorded the first trade in the new liquid milk future. The exchange transaction covered a volume of 25,000 kilograms traded at the price of EUR 36.50/100 kg for the October 2018 expiry. The liquid milk future launched by EEX on 15 August 2018 complements the…

August 23, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

RoboForex enables depositing to BTC accounts with other cryptocurrencies

RoboForex, the Belize-based unit of the Retail FX brokerage group, has announced that it has launched a new service which will allow the company’s clients to deposit funds to their Bitcoin accounts (BTC accounts) by means of other cryptocurrencies. The sum deposited in alternative cryptocurrencies will be automatically converted into BTC according to the exchange rate…

August 23, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Stock Exchange of Thailand to innovate Thai food industry

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), Ministry of Science and Technology through National Science Technology and Innovation Policy Office (NSTIPO), and Thailand Management Association (TMA) have announced that they have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote small and mid-sized listed companies engaged in food industry to adopt innovations in business operations to sharpen…

August 23, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Investoo enters into US trading market acquiring VantagePointTrading.com

London based FX and cryptocurrency affiliate company Investoo Group has announced its entry into the US financial affiliate and trading business, with its acquisition of trading education website VantagePointTrading.com. Launched in 2007 by Calgary-based Chartered Market Technician Cory Mitchell, VantagePointTrading.com has been a leading education platform for over 10 years. The website currently provides informative content via…