April 10, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

GAIN Capital to offer Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple and Bitcoin Cash

Retail and Institutional FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has announced the recent launch of Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple and Bitcoin Cash in the U.K., Europe, Australia and Singapore on the Company’s FOREX.com and City Index services. GAIN has also expanded its Bitcoin offering, allowing customers to trade Bitcoin directly against the Euro (BTC/EUR), British…

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April 10, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

How to get an LEI number if you don’t have a LOU (Local Operating Unit) in your country

The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. The global push for greater transparency in financial markets continues to gain traction with top tier regulators now requiring that all entities, engaged in trading financial markets, report their LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) number to regulatory repositories.…

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April 10, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Blockpass teams up with Infinito Wallet, launch PASS token

Self-sovereign identity application Blockpass and universal cryptocurrency wallet Infinito Wallet announced today their strategic partnership. The two companies' mutual agreement includes plans to release Blockpass' PASS token via the Infinito Wallet platform and defines a shared vision of a decentralized regtech ecosystem. PASS, which is to be distributed through token sale channel partners starting at…

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April 10, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Fortex hires Victor Hendrix from Beeks Financial Cloud as EVP Global Infrastructure Sales

Institutional FX trading solutions provider Fortex Technologies Inc has announced that Victor Hendrix has joined the company to create and lead its newest division XCLOUD. A global cloud server grid, XCLOUD offers liquidity-agnostic and broker-neutral trading Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to support all trading platforms and all bridge middleware. XCLOUD offers premium hosting and…

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April 10, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

tZERO launches security token trading software

tZERO, the blockchain-meets-Wall-Street subsidiary of Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSTK), has just announced the release of the prototype of its planned security token trading software. Overstock.com and tZERO CEO Patrick Byrne said: In August 2015, Overstock used tZERO’s blockchain technology to issue what we believe was the world’s first private blockchain security, a $5 million bond to…

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April 10, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Spaceship and Tidswell fined for false and misleading conduct

Spaceship Financial Services Pty Ltd (Spaceship) and Tidswell Financial Services Pty Ltd (Tidswell) have each paid a $12,600 penalty for Infringement Notices issued by ASIC. ASIC's concerns related to misleading claims about the 'fundamental investment philosophy' of the Spaceship Super Fund’s "GrowthX" portfolio (Spaceship Fund), made on the fund’s website (www.spaceship.com.au) during 2017. In June…

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April 09, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Libertex adds CFDs on Spotify and Dropbox shares

The Libertex trading platform has announced that it now provides its traders with an opportunity to open trading positions in two new instruments - CFDs on Spotify (SPOT) and Dropbox (DBX) stocks. The company stated that these new assets will appeal to those traders who are interested in opening up trading positions in promising technological…

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April 09, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Cryptocurrency CFDs require license, but not cryptos themselves: FCA

UK financial regulator the FCA has issued an interesting statement indicating that while cryptocurrencies are not currently regulated by the FCA, crypto derivatives - including cryptocurrency CFDs - are. According to the FCA, cryptocurrency derivatives are defined as being "financial instruments" under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II), even though the FCA does…

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