April 02, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FXSpotStream reports another strong month with March FX volumes at $27.5 billion ADV

After two consecutive record months for FX trading volumes to start 2018, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that March volumes came in at $27.5 billion ADV - slightly (4%) below February's record $28.8 billion ADV, but still topping January’s $26.3 billion making March 2018 FXSpotStream’s second best month ever. FXSpotStream’s previous volume record coming…

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April 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Mauritius FSC releases publication of FSC Policy Research Series

The Financial Services Commission, Mauritius (FSC) has just announced the publication of the third study of its Policy Research series. The study is entitled “The State and Future of Social Impact Investments in Mauritius”. The study provides the building blocks of the social investment market in Mauritius, namely by analysing the main actors on the…

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April 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SportDex launches crypto-based sports app

SportDex, a decentralized sports ecosystem for sports fans, has just announced that it has successfully launched its new application. SportDex is designed with four new features in this version: cryptocurrency SPO, Player Exchange, Wallet, and Contest. SportDex is offering 20 SPO tokens for users who sign up in the next 30 days. The app is…

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April 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Spain regulator CNMV warns against two unregistered entities

The National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) has just published the following list of warnings reported on unregistered entities: MEDIA GC LIMITED (TRADEGC), MEDIAGCLTD.COM/ES MEDIA CLIENT SERVICE, S.L. For more details on the warnings, you can visit the CNMV website to view any existing warnings on unauthorized entities and other warnings. In addition, there is a search engine available at the…

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April 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Japan Exchange Group announces record fiscal 2017

Japan Exchange Group has released the trading overview (preliminary estimates) for FY2017 & March 2018. Cash Equity Market In FY2017, daily average trading value for the TSE 1st Section (domestic common stocks) reached JPY 2.957 trillion, an all-time high. In the ETF market, trading value was JPY 46.799 trillion (daily average: JPY 191 billion), the…

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April 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Shenzhen Stock Exchange to sign new agreements on securities listing

On March 29, Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) held the signing ceremony of Agreements on the Listing of Securities (2018 Revision), signally the official start of work on signing the new agreements. This is another major move of SZSE to implement the newly amended Measures on the Administration of Stock Exchange (the “Measures”) for perfecting institutional…

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April 02, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Z.com Trade changes its Classic Account to market execution expanding liquidity sources

Z.com Trade, the FCA regulated brokerage arm of Japanese retail forex giant GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), has announced that effective today the execution mode on its Classic Account will be changed to Market Execution. Currently Z.com Trade's Classic Account uses the Instant Execution mode, however this setting unfortunately limits the liquidity sources available. This change is necessary…

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