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 RBCP INTERNATIONAL / RBC GROUP. RBCP INTERNATIONAL / RBC GROUP is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) informed the public that it has voted to propose new Rule 610T of Regulation NMS to conduct a Transaction Fee Pilot in NMS stocks. The proposed pilot would subject stock exchange transaction fee pricing, including “maker-taker” fee-and-rebate pricing models, to new temporary pricing restrictions across three test groups, and…
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CQG, Inc., a global provider of high-performance trading, market data, and technical analysis tools, has just announced a new partnership with the futures exchange Nasdaq Futures (NFX). This parthership aims to provide a trading solution for clients trading NFX products. NFX, leveraging CQG Desktop for its trading system, now makes that offering available with zero…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that MENA and New Zealand FX brokerage group Direct Trading Technologies (DTT) is in the latter stages of applying for and receiving an FCA license. The company plans to launch an FCA registered brokerage, to be based in Canary Wharf, London. DTT UK is expecting to launch in the summer…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Patcham Investment Funds (PIF). 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…
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Copenhagen based multi asset broker has continued its global expansion and, in particular, its growth in China and the Far East with a new partnership announced today with Valuable Capital Group, part of Chinese online media giant SINA Corp (NASDAQ:SINA). The new partnership comes just several days after Saxo Bank appointed a new China CEO, hiring…
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Ullink has just announced the complete merger with Itiviti and claims that the combination of Itiviti and Ullink will create a full-service technology and infrastructure provider for global and regional financial institutions. The intention to combine Itiviti and Ullink was jointly communicated by the companies and owner Nordic Capital on November 28, 2017. The Board…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) has just announced the settlement of the March expiry Cboe bitcoin (XBT) futures, the third contract settlement conducted since its launch in December. The settlement price was $8,236.11, as determined by the 4:00 p.m. ET Gemini1 Exchange bitcoin auction. Cboe bitcoin futures, the first regulated futures of their kind,…
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New European broker FX88 has announced that it has added Spanish and Polish languages to its website, amid demands for trading in these regions. In line with its brand-new website, FX88 now provides trading information in three languages. Founded on knowledge, expertise and a passion for trading the markets, the FX88 team stated that it…
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Societe Generale and exchange operator Euronext NV (EPA:ENX) have just announced their partnership in order to offer retail investors “Best of Book”, Euronext’s best execution service. This service will enable customers in Societe Generale’s French network to benefit from a greater quality of order execution on the exchange at a competitive price Launched in November 2016,…
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