BT 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…
Read moreComplaints about payment protection insurance (PPI) drove a 13% increase in the number of complaints made to financial services firms in the second half of 2017, according to figures published today by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). During the second half of 2017 a total of 3.76 million complaints were received, an increase of 427,032…
Read moreCLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has published its operating metrics for the month of March. These show that Q1 2018 has been a record for CLS with the highest traded volumes submitted to the service ever, topping Q1 2013. Average daily traded volume submitted…
Read moreChubb, cyber risk assessment and underwriting company, has announced that it has launched its Chubb Cyber IndexSM, a new interactive platform that showcases nearly two decades worth of Chubb's proprietary commercial cyber claims data. The Index is designed to highlight a range of cyber threats based on an organization's industry and size. We're thrilled to…
Read moreNeufund, the blockchain based equity fundraising platform, has just announced its involvement with Malta to support its rapidly expanding blockchain ecosystem. Neufund’s technology, allowing tokenization of shares and fundraising on the blockchain, will provide a critical component in the full value chain of Malta’s blockchain ecosystem. Berlin based Neufund will be establishing strong presence on…
Read moreThe Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has announced today Mr. Sydney Lederman of Toronto, Ontario, was sentenced to 90 days in jail and three years of probation by Justice M. Wong at the College Park-Ontario Court of Justice on April 13, 2018. Following an investigation by the OSC’s Joint Serious Offences Team (JSOT) and prior to…
Read moreBelize financial regulator IFSC has issued a Warning Notice regarding a company called BTC Home Mining. The entity is not licensed under the IFSC Act to provide, carry on, transact, or hold himself out as providing, carrying on, or transacting any of the international financial services as set out in the Schedule of the IFSC…
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