UnitedBitcoin implements first cross-chain distribution following a fork LeapRate

February 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

UnitedBitcoin implements first cross-chain distribution following a fork

Community airdrop will distribute UBTC to blockchain communities, forums, and organizations recognized by the UnitedBitcoin Foundation United Bitcoin, the Bitcoin fork launched by pioneers Jeff Garzik and Matthew Roszak, today announced a community airdrop. UnitedBitcoin’s airdrop marks the first cross-chain distribution following a fork. UBTC is now listed on 18 exchanges, and its Hong Kong…

February 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Belize regulator IFSC cancels Alabron Capital Corp. trading license

Belize financial regulator IFSC just announced that Alabron Capital Corp. with its registered office at Mile 3, George Price Highway, Belize City Belize, C.A., has been voluntarily dissolved, pursuant to section 102 (6) (B) of the International Business Companies Act, Chapter 270 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2011, as of 22 November…

February 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

UK Prime Minister Theresa May announces R5-SHCH Connect is open for business

Theresa May today announced the launch of R5-SHCH Connect, a new service which links banks in China with London's foreign exchange (FX) market. Part of the Belt and Road financial infrastructure initiative, this represents a significant progression towards closer financial market activity between the two nations. Mrs May announced that the service was live whilst…

February 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CFTC fines Deutsche Bank Securities $70m for manipulation of USD ISDAFIX benchmark

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order filing and settling charges against Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. (DBSI) for attempted manipulation of the ISDAFIX benchmark and requiring DBSI to pay a $70 million civil monetary penalty. The CFTC Order finds that over a five-year period, beginning in at least January 2007 and continuing…

February 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

HKEX changes of designated securities for short selling

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), announces that with effect from 9 February (Friday), 44 additional securities will be eligible for short selling and 26 existing designated securities will be removed from the list. The total number of designated securities for short selling…

February 02, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FXSpotStream has best ever month in January 2018, FX volumes $26.3 billion ADV

Continuing the string of strong and record FX trading volumes we've been seeing from leading retail and institutional eFX venues to start off 2018, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that January FX trading volumes came in at $26.3 billion ADV, making January 2018 FXSpotStream’s best month ever - and by a wide margin.…

February 02, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

SafeCharge COO Yuval Ziv nets $440,000 profit from exercise of options

Payments services and technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) has made regulatory filings indicating that longtime employee and current COO Yuval Ziv exercised options over 300,000 ordinary shares in the company. These options were granted under the company's 2011 Global Share Option Plan. Of the 300,000 options exercised, 60,000 were at a price of 121.0 pence per share…

February 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Bankway HMO Property Bond clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Bankway HMO Property Bond / Bankway Properties. 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…

February 02, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC removes license conditions imposed on OpenMarkets Australia Limited

ASIC and OpenMarkets Australia Limited (OpenMarkets) have agreed to the removal of additional license conditions imposed on OpenMarkets on 10 July 2017, the Regulator announced earlier today. The removal of the additional license conditions follows the completion of an independent expert's review of the effectiveness of OpenMarkets' implementation of recommendations arising from an earlier review…

February 02, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Blueberry Markets hires AxiTrader and Royal Financial FX sales exec Ben Clay

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Australian Retail FX broker Blueberry Markets has added to its business development team, recruiting Ben Clay, a senior executive from Royal Financial Trading’s Australian operation. He had also spent seven years as a senior sales trader at AxiTrader. Ben Clay joins Dean Hyde and Tim Mansell as the latest high…