Hanaa El Moudden 120Advertising
July 30, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FX marketing boutique 120Advertising hires easyMarkets veteran Hanaa El Moudden

FX and Crypto marketing boutique specialist firm 120Advertising has announced the addition of former VIP Relationship Manager of easyMarkets, Hanaa El Moudden, as Head of Business Development. Hanaa El Mouden joins Limassol, Cyprus based 120Advertising from easyMarkets after an eight year tenure, having held a variety of client-related and business development roles in the company.…

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Bloomberg Enterprise Access Point adds alternative data
July 30, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bloomberg launches new data service to increase transparency in UST and IRS pricing

Bloomberg has just announced that it will launch a new data service consolidating NEX’s BrokerTec US Treasuries data with USD Spread-Over data from Tradition's Trad-X platform. This service, called Bloomberg Capital Markets Package (BCMP), will be the most liquid and transparent US capital market reference available, representing the two largest electronic wholesale markets in UST…

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Euronext
July 30, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

AudioValley just listed on Euronext Growth market

AudioValley, a pioneer in BtoB digital audio, has just been listed on the Euronext Growth market in Paris. Founded in 2003, AudioValley is a Belgian company with three business divisions, all in digital audio: Radionomy, a digital radio audience aggregation and monetisation solution; Storever, a one-stop shop in audio and video point-of-sale broadcasting solutions; and…

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ESMA bond liquidity data
July 30, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ESMA finds shortcomings in national supervision of efficient portfolio management by UCITS

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has informed that it has found that national regulators need to improve their supervision of Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities (UCITS) engaging in efficient portfolio management techniques (EPM). A recent peer review by ESMA, which assessed the level of compliance of six national competent authorities (NCAs)…

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Federal Reserve Board
July 30, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Federal Reserve Board launches Consumer Compliance Supervision Bulletin

The Federal Reserve Board has informed the public that it has launched the Consumer Compliance Supervision Bulletin - a new publication that will provide bankers and others interested in consumer protection with high-level summaries of pertinent supervisory issues. The Bulletin complements other Federal Reserve System outreach programs for banking organizations, such as the Consumer Compliance…

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SGX announces trading volumes
July 30, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SGX welcomes Silkroad Nickel Ltd to Catalist

Singapore Exchange (SGX) has just announced that it has today welcomed Silkroad Nickel Ltd to its Catalist under the stock code “STP”. Silkroad Nickel Ltd is primarily in the business of exploration, mining, production and sale of nickel ore. Based in Indonesia, the group has the mining business licence to carry out nickel ore mining…

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IBM to distribute its custodial solution for digital assets through third party
July 30, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS and IBM partner on LedgerConnect blockchain network for financial institutions

CLS, a market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing, and data solutions, and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have just announced a collaboration on a proof of concept (PoC) for LedgerConnect − a distributed ledger technology (DLT) platform for the financial services industry designed to enable banks, buy and sell side firms, FinTechs and software vendors to deploy,…

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cmc markets offices
July 30, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

CMC Markets receiving investor opposition to executive pay policies

London based online FX, CFDs and spreadbetting broker CMC Markets Plc (LON:CMCX) issued an interesting statement following its Annual General Meeting last week, which also coincided with the release of CMC's quarterly Trading Update. While stating (as is certainly usual) that all the resolutions set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting were duly passed as…

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