April 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Tradency adds new APIs and services to its core auto trading engine

Tradency, a financial technology provider, has just announced the expansion of its F-PaaS, technology outsourcing offering. Tradency’s core auto-trading engines were added to the F-PaaS offering and are now available for integration with a wide range of applications through its easy to learn, use and maintain APIs. The F-PaaS technology offering also includes complementary professional…

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April 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Bluestone Asset Management (Europe) S.A. firm

UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company Bluestone Asset Management (Europe) S.A. Bluestone Asset Management (Europe) S.A. is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is…

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April 17, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Binary options and crypto CEO Blake Kantor arrested, faces 20 years in jail for fraud

The US Department of Justice has announced that a three-count indictment was unsealed yesterday (see below) in federal court in charging Blake Kantor, also known as “Bill Gordon,” with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, obstruction of an official proceeding and making false statements to Special Agents of the FBI. Kantor was arrested by federal authorities yesterday and…

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April 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

China futures broker Holly chooses Horizon market making platform

Horizon Software, the global provider of electronic trading and investment management technology, has announced that Holly Futures, China futures company, has selected Horizon’s Platform for market making for iron ore and corn futures on the Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE).   Holly Futures Co., Ltd. is a large-scale futures company approved by the China Securities Regulatory…

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April 17, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

How Blockchain may help homeless people

The city of Austin, Texas, is among the first ones in the world to be putting blockchain to a very useful task: helping the homeless. While the problem exists around the world to different extents, a universal solution to identifying homeless people and taking care of them has not been found. And while investors disagree…

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April 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nasdaq sells its Public Relations Solutions and Digital Media Services businesses to West Corporation

Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) has today announced the successful completion of the sale of its Public Relations Solutions and Digital Media Services businesses to West Corporation (“West”), a technology-enabled services company, for approximately $335 million. Through a multi-year partnership with West, Nasdaq has confirmed that it will continue to provide eligible Nasdaq-listed clients with seamless access…

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April 16, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Exegy launches Trade Port FX market data service

Exegy Inc., a provider of managed services and low-latency technology for market data normalization and distribution, has announced today the launch of Exegy Trade Port FX, a fully managed FX market data and order execution solution. Trade Port FX delivers network connectivity, normalized market data, and order entry to major FX venues as a fully…

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