May 07, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

P2P crypto trading platform CoinTouch (and other) sites shut due to GDPR legal concerns

File this one under the title of Unintended Consequences. After gaining popularity among many Bitcoin and crypto token traders in recent months, P2P trading platform CoinTouch has announced on its website at cointouch.com that it is shutting down due to uncertainty which the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) presents to website operators. Chris Beach, who…

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May 07, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

What you get, and what you really need - from the FX broker platforms

The following article was written by Gavin Loduwick, CEO and Richard Goers, CIO and CTO of next generation platform provider Managed Leverage. This article asks the question: what the active retail trader in derivatives actually needs in intelligence and risk management tools in order to achieve their trading objectives… as opposed to what is actually…

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May 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SET launches LiVE - crowdfunding platform with blockchain technology

LiVE – the first Thailand crowdfunding platform for startups and SMEs developed by The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) with support from the public and private sectors – has officially launched with eight targeted businesses from various sectors such as mobile application, consumer products and medical equipment, to join while prompting over 50 companies to…

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May 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters expands wealth management brokerage processing platform BETA

Information giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) announced that it has expanded its North American wealth management brokerage processing platform, BETA, to include automated international post-trade processing for multi-market and multi-currency securities, representing a significant advancement in a continuous effort to better serve both retail and institutional clients. Powered by NRI’s I-STAR/GX platform, Thomson Reuters North American…

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May 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Solactive launches new equity benchmark covering Australia

Solactive has just announced the release of the Solactive Australia 200 Index, a new benchmark tracking the performance of the 200 largest companies by market capitalization listed on the Australian Securities Exchange. With this new launch, Solactive expands its range of competitively-priced benchmarks and offers for the first time a broad-market index providing targeted exposure…

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May 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe Global Markets reports record results for 1Q 2018

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has reported record financial results for the first quarter of 2018. Consolidated results for the first quarter of 2017 include Bats Global Markets (Bats) for the period March 1 through March 31, 2017. Cboe completed its acquisition of Bats on February 28, 2017. Our record results underscore the utility…

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May 04, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

13 new international companies join LSEG's ELITE

ELITE, London Stock Exchange Group’s business support and capital raising programme, just announced that it has welcomed 13 new international companies, bringing the total number of companies in the ELITE community to over 850. The CEOs of the 13 new ELITE international companies and seven CEOs from the newly graduated ELITE companies opened trading in…

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May 04, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: FX and crypto affiliate group Investoo gets FCA registration

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Investoo Group, which has rapidly grown to become one of the largest FX and crypto affiliates, is now registered by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK, as an Appointed Representative of Met Facilities LLP. Met Facilities provides a regulatory hosting umbrella for funds, start-ups, fintechs and financial…

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