April 12, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Playtech continues vertical integration with €846 million acquisition of Italy's Snaitech

Online gaming and financial trading company Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) is clearly pursuing a strategy of B2B-and-B2C vertical integration not just in its financial businesses, but also its core gaming division. On the financial side of its business, Playtech operates both as a technology and services provider to online brokers via its TradeTech division (formed by the…

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April 12, 2018 BY Mariela Naydenova

Extracting value from "dead coins" - the CoinJanitor project

As the heat from the cryptocurrency market is sweeping across industries, sectors and countries, it is not really surprising that there are a lot of coin that do not manage to "fulfil" their roles for several reasons. Among the many thriving ICOs and coin-related offerings, there are quite a few that are now called "dead…

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April 11, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Baltic Concert LLP 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 Baltic Concert LLP. Baltic Concert LLP is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…

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April 11, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Admiral Markets removes expiration on cryptocurrency CFDs

FCA regulated Retail FX and CFDs broker Admiral Markets has just announced that all positions on cryptocurrency CFDs are now open-ended and will no longer expire at 11.00 pm on Friday evening. In addition to this improvement, Admiral Markets reminded that they've recently removed the commission for cryptocurrency CFDs and reduced the financing costs for…

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April 11, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Rosenthal Collins Group hires Steve Ivey as Executive Vice President

Rosenthal Collins Group LLC (RCG), an independent futures brokerage and clearing firm, has announced the appointment of Steve Ivey as Executive Vice President & Chief Risk Officer. Ivey brings more than two decades of risk management experience in trading, liquidity, credit, operational and market risk. Starting his role at RCG this week, Ivey joined the…

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April 11, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Ferrovial listed on MSM of Euronext Dublin

Spain’s global services and infrastructure provider, Ferrovial, has announced that it lists additional notes on the Main Securities Market (MSM) of Euronext Dublin with issuance of €100m notes from its €1bn Euro Commercial Paper (ECP) programme. A subsidiary of Ferrovial, Ferrovial Netherlands B.V, listed €500m notes on the MSM in 2017. Ferrovial is an infrastructure…

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April 11, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Almamarkets Limited

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 Almamarkets Limited. Almamarkets Limited is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated activities which…

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April 11, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Orbex partners with Ajiad Securities to offer trading services on international markets in Jordan

CySEC regulated online forex broker Orbex has announced that it held its partnership ceremony at the Hotel Le Grand, Amman, Jordan, where several prominent figures representing the Jordanian Securities Commission (JSC), traders, and experts in the field of trading attended. As an international forex broker, the partnership with Ajiad Securities will enable access to trading…

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April 11, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

MOEX expands commodity derivatives offering

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has announced that it will facilitate investments in popular financial commodity instruments, and open up new opportunities for precious metals producers and consumers to trade on the Derivatives Market. Light Sweet Crude Oil futures and option contracts will be launched in April 2018. Deliverable Gold futures contracts will be introduced in September…

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