The animatronic head of Arnold Schwarzenegger is back today to remind people to check whether they had payment protection insurance (PPI) and make a decision about whether to make a complaint before the deadline on 29 August 2019. In the new TV ad and themed radio adverts, Animatronic Arnie highlights that PPI was sold alongside a…
Read moreAbu Dhabi based international financial services firm ADS Securities has announced that traders using its proprietary OREX platform are now able to trade five cryptocurrencies, adding to Bitcoin and Ethereum which have been available since last year. ADS Securities soft launched the new products to existing customers in mid-March with a good response, and given that the broader interest in cryptocurrency trading remains will now be marketing…
Read moreMore than 1,000 blockchain-based apps have launched their own digital currencies or “tokens” - for example, Ether which allows users to commit transactions on the Ethereum blockchain, or Filecoin for storing and retrieving data. The explosion in digital currencies poses an age-old challenge for consumers: The currencies they hold aren’t necessarily the ones they need…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive Interview... Leading multi asset broker Saxo Bank announced earlier today its latest platform innovation with the release of SaxoTraderPRO, aimed at the active trader and institutional client. But how is SaxoTraderPRO different from Saxo Bank's previous platforms? What will it be replacing? How might ESMA's leverage cap cuts affect Saxo Bank's plans? We thought…
Read moreThe UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Proinvest Solutions. 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 to…
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It looks like Exness has a trillion reasons to smile. Concluding its best-ever quarter in which it saw clients transact over a trillion dollars of trading volumes, FCA and CySEC licensed Retail FX broker Exness has reported that March volumes came in at $375.4 billion, a record for the company. That bested Exness' previous best…
Read moreMoscow Exchange (MOEX) announced that it has successfully completed an annual assurance review of MOEX indices’ compliance with the Principles for Financial Benchmarks published by the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). The review was performed on MOEX’s equity and bond indices, benchmark fixings including the MOEX USD/RUB FX Fixing, pension fund indices as well…
Read moreLeading investment and trading corporation CFI Financial Group Holding has announced that it has joined the forces of all its corporate entities under the name Credit Financier Invest and CFI brand. As of April 3, 2018, the company's Larnaca based CySEC regulated subsidiary CFI Markets Ltd. becomes Credit Financier Invest (CFI) Ltd., in line with the other group…
Read moreDeutsche Börse has announced that its cash markets have achieved a turnover of €165.1 billion in March (2017: €135.7 billion). In the first quarter of 2018, the trading volume was €480.1 billion – an increase of around 33 percent compared with the first three months in 2017 with €361.5 billion. Of the €165.1 billion, €152.2…
Read moreRetail FX brokerage group FxPro has announced an expansion in its offering of trader education products. According to the company, FxPro's 'Learn from a Pro' series of trading webinars and seminars has been extraordinarily well received. Since originally launching the initiative last year, the group has maintained its long-standing commitment to providing traders with comprehensive educational…
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