April 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

OSC warns against BitConnect, BitConnect Coin and the BCC Exchange

The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has just made a warning against BitConnect. BitConnect manages the websites bitconnect.co and bitconnectcoin.co, where it claims to operate an online exchange platform known as the BCC Exchange. These sites offer multiple investment opportunities that include “mining”, “trading” and “staking” BitConnect Coin, which is also known as BCC Coin. BitConnect…

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April 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe Global Markets launches Cboe One-Year Volatility Index

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has announced the launch of up-to-the-minute market estimates of one-year volatility, the Cboe One-Year Volatility Index (ticker: VIX1Y), calculated by using real-time prices of options in the S&P 500® Index (SPXSM). The introduction of VIX1Y will give traders the ability to track the relative movements of one-month and one-year…

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April 18, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC bans former Suncorp Financial Services financial adviser

ASIC has announced that it has banned Queensland financial adviser Gerald Grubwinkler from providing financial services for four years. ASIC found that Mr Grubwinkler failed to act in his clients' best interests when providing advice on superannuation and insurance. Specifically, ASIC found that Mr Grubwinkler had failed to: adequately identify the subject matter and scope…

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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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