Your Weekly Trading Review by UFX.com – Sunday, March 25, 2018 Here are some of this past week’s leading economic news and events that affected the financial markets: Weekly Market Brief The EUR/USD rose by +0.41%, closing at $1.2353. The GBP/USD increased by +0.26%, closing the week at a £1.4132 exchange rate. Gold increased by +1.69%as of…
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Who did Markets.com hire from ThinkMarkets to be its new CEO? How much money did Retail FX brokers Z.com Trade, and eToro, each raise? And why? What drove IG Group's record Revenues this past quarter? Who is the new Head of Marketing at Leverate? Answers to these questions and a whole lot more appeared exclusively…
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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 Options Tech Limited t/a MWM Markets. Options Tech Limited is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also…
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B&S Group (ticker symbol: BSGR), a global distribution partner for consumer goods, began trading on Euronext Amsterdam today. The listing follows the company’s Initial Public Offering (IPO), with a total offering of € 358 million. Based on a reference price of € 14.50 per share, the total market capitalisation of B&S Group at opening was…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Automatix Top Limited. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…
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Deutsche Börse has announced that DWS Group GmbH & Co. KGaA (ISIN: DE000DWS1007) was listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange today. Its shares opened trading at €32.55 following an issue price of €32.50. Lead managers included Deutsche Bank and Citigroup Global Markets, with Deutsche Bank and Kepler Cheuvreux acting as designated…
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The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and ASIC informed that they have signed an Enhanced Cooperation Agreement between their Innovation Hubs to extend their existing agreement of cooperation and coordination on fintech innovation. This agreement forms part of the broader Fintech Bridge signed by the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Australian Treasurer.…
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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 BECFD. BECFD is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated activities which require authorisation:…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has announced that the Japanese Financial Services Authority (JFSA) has added Cboe Global Markets – U.S. Equities to the regulator’s list of Designated Foreign Financial Instrument Exchanges. Cboe’s recognition by the JFSA eases regulations related to disclosures for retail investors and certain discretionary accounts, a change that is expected…
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Well it does look like Bitcoin continues to go more 'mainstream', with some of the world's leading trading venues finally taking note of the large crypto trading volumes driving results at some of the leading online brokers. TMX Group, a Canadian financial services company that operates market exchanges including the Toronto Stock Exchange, and Paycase…
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