SENSE, the blockchain protocol for human knowledge with offices in Santa Monica and the Cayman Islands, has announced its collaboration with CG Blockchain, Inc. (BCT), a New York-based company developing powerful sets of blockchain-based tools and services for the financial services industry. This collaboration aims to simplify the way individuals communicate and share complex concepts…
Read moreWhen it comes to regulations on cryptocurrencies, governments and central banks around the world have been almost equally tight on what is "allowed" and what not. The SEC is also making changes to the crypto industry and the taxes related to owning digital currencies, treating them as assets. Now, one very special group of entities…
Read moreVisible Alpha has just announced that it has received ISO 27001 certification from Schellman & Company, LLC, an ANAB and UKAS accredited Certification Body based in the United States for its information security management system (ISMS) supporting the Visible Alpha Services. ISO 27001 Certification published by the International Organization for Standardization is the leading international…
Read moreSwedish crowdfunding platform FundedByMe has just announced that it will attract foreign investors for Polish startups. The platform had successfully collected more than €50 million for some 470 companies from 25 different countries. The launch of the Polish office was announced on 17 April at Google Campus in Warsaw marking the fifth time that FundedByMe…
Read moreDeutsche Börse Group’s post-trade services provider Clearstream has announced that it has successfully migrated the Belgian, Dutch, French and Italian markets onto its new TARGET2-Securities (T2S) Investor-CSD model. It thereby brings the first real cross-border volume onto the ECB’s pan-European settlement platform. With this move, the vision of a harmonized settlement landscape for securities across…
Read moreGTX, the institutional FX arm of retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), has just announced that Henry Durrant has joined GTX as Director, Liquidity Management, effective April 19, 2018. GTX’s liquidity management team optimizes liquidity for clients prior to them going live on the ECN and on an ongoing basis thereafter. Durrant joins…
Read moreBT has just announced that SuperFeed, a fully-managed market data feed designed and operated by trading and market access technology provider Vela, can now be accessed via the secure financial markets cloud community BT Radianz Cloud. SuperFeed offers customers a single source for data feeds spanning 100 global venues including BME, Cboe, CME, CTA, Deutsche…
Read moreSTOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Börse Group’s index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, announced today the launch of the new iSTOXX RiskFirst LDI index family. This new offering has been jointly developed with RiskFirst, the UK’s leading provider of risk analytics and reporting solutions to the defined benefit…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that top-level management changes have taken place at FCA regulated Retail FX broker GMO-Z.com Trade UK Limited, the UK operating arm of Japanese financial group GMO Financial Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), the world's largest Retail Forex operation. We should note that the changes are part of an overall management shuffle within GMO,…
Read moreThe Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) has just issued a warning of the activities of an entity named Luxembourg Offshore Banking. The company is operating via website: http://www.luxosb.com, and claims to be established in Luxembourg. The CSSF has informed the public that the entity named Luxembourg Offshore Banking has not been granted any…
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