April 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SafeCharge goes flying with Blue Panorama Airlines payments processing deal

Payments services and technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) has announced that it has been selected as a new payment partner by Blue Panorama Airlines, an Italian based airline fully-owned by The Uvet Group. SafeCharge’s Payments Engine is an end-to-end platform providing a smart and direct connection to Visa and MasterCard. For airlines, this…

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April 17, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

TopiaCoin - Facebook's "new enemy"

Mark Zuckerberg is literally under fire these days, after it became known that Facebook has been misusing users' data in multiple ways. Cambridge Analytica was accused of using data provided by Facebook to get insight into people's voting "habits", preferences etc. After Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of the US Congress, the scandal seems to…

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April 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Lithuania introduces blockchain-based companies in 2019

Lithuania has informed that it is looking to become the first ever country to offer entities from around the world the opportunity to register and manage companies using blockchain technology. These Virtual Limited Liability Companies (VLLCs) would benefit from an innovation-friendly “sandbox” regulatory system that helps newcomers to set up operations. VLLCs would give companies a…

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April 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Growth in Americas helps derivatives market offset declines in EMEA & Asia-Pacific

The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the global industry group for exchanges and central counterparties (CCPs), has just published its annual WFE IOMA Derivatives Market Report (.pdf file) today, which shows the total volume of derivatives traded in 2017 declined by 0.2%. ​Stock markets worldwide and the global economy ended 2017 on a strong note. Benchmark…

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April 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SSW selects Cboe Europe as technology provider

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has just informed that SSW, an innovative pan-European liquidity provider in a very broad universe of instruments, has started its Systematic Internaliser (SI) business by utilising Cboe Europe’s SI technology services to efficiently connect to and service their clients. Cboe offers a comprehensive suite of SI services for participants…

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April 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Dash Financial Technologies names Bloomberg Tradebook's Jamie Bogen Managing Director

Dash Financial Technologies, provider of advanced multi-asset trading technology and execution services platforms, today announced the appointment of Jamie Bogen as Managing Director, Execution Services. In this role she will be responsible for helping advance the firm’s institutional business development strategy across the buy side and further enhance Dash’s consultancy-led approach to execution customization, workflow and…

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April 17, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: CySEC licensed institutional FX broker PositivaFX acquired and rebranded to ATFX, expands to Retail

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that ATFX has expanded to Cyprus, acquiring control of CySEC licensed institutional FX broker PositivaFX. ATFX is a co-brand shared by a number of different entities globally including FCA regulated AT Global Markets (UK) Limited in the United Kingdom, ATFX Global Markets (CY) Limited in Cyprus, AT Capital Markets Limited…

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April 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FINRA names Timothy C. Scheve to Board of Governors

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced that it has named Timothy C. Scheve, President and Chief Executive Officer of Janney Montgomery Scott LLC, as a new Large Firm Governor on its Board of Governors. Scheve was appointed to complete the term of former Governor John W. Thiel, who left the Board earlier this year.…

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April 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC charges former financial adviser charged with dishonesty

Following an ASIC investigation, former financial adviser Mr Trevor William Martin, has today been charged with twenty-one counts of dishonestly obtaining client funds and five counts of using false documents to obtain a financial advantage under the NSW Crimes Act. ASIC alleges that on twenty-one occasions between 1 June 2011 to April 2015 Mr Martin,…

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April 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe SEF launches two new NDF currency pairs

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has just announced that its swap execution facility, Cboe SEF, has launched trading of U.S. Dollar (USD)/ Russian Ruble (RUB) and USD/Peruvian Sol (PEN) non-deliverable foreign exchange forward currency pairs. Bryan Harkins, Executive Vice President and Co-Head, Markets Division, at Cboe, said: We have seen success in trading non-deliverable…

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