Commodities broker Marex Spectron hires Precious Metals trader Warren Capps from UBS LeapRate

Marex Spectron launches Marex Financial Products structured note business

January 22, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Commodities broker Marex Spectron hires Precious Metals trader Warren Capps from UBS

London based global commodities broker Marex Spectron has announced that it has further strengthened its Precious Metals business, with the appointment of Warren Capps, formerly of UBS. Warren Capps, who started in mid-January, was previously at the UBS Investment Bank unit of UBS AG (SWX:UBSN), where he managed the global spot metals team. Prior to…

January 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CFTC charges Entrepreneurs Headquarters Ltd with engaging in a Bitcoin and Binary Options fraud scheme

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) informed that on January 18, 2018 filed a civil enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York against Defendants Dillon Michael Dean of Longmont, Colorado, and his company The Entrepreneurs Headquarters Limited, a UK-registered company. The CFTC Complaint charges the Defendants with engaging…

STOXX Low Carbon products licensed to Italian bank IMI

January 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

STOXX launches first global AI index based on AI algorithm

Today, STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Börse Group’s index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, introduced the world’s first index that uses AI-related algorithms to select companies exposed to the artificial intelligence (AI) megatrend at the Inside ETFs conference in the U.S. The new index will be available as…

January 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Motive Partners launches financial technology innovation catalyst & value-creation engine

Motive Partners, an investment firm focused on technology enabled companies that power the financial services industry, today announced the launch of Motive Labs, a membership-only innovation and investment organization that will support the firm's mission to back and build the next generation of financial technology. Motive Partners also announced the founding strategic partners for Motive…

January 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Foreign Exchange Professionals Association hires Nasdaq's John Shay as President

The Foreign Exchange Professionals Association (FXPA) announced the hire of John Shay as President of the organisation, a newly created role. Additionally, FXPA has hired Mercury Strategies, represented by Justin Slaughter, as its new legal counsel. We are excited to welcome John and Justin to FXPA. They will be involved on a day-to-day basis, leading…

January 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CySEC fines CIF licensed Spot Capital Markets Ltd €50,000

The Board of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has just informed that, at the meeting held on 20th November 2017, it has decided to impose a total administrative fine of €50.000 to CIF Spot Capital Markets Ltd for non compliance within the period of 1st January 2016 to 30th June 2016, with the…

January 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Weiss announces first bitcoin and cryptocurrency grades by U.S. rating agency

Weiss Ratings, an independent rating agency of financial institutions, just announced that it will issue letter grades on cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Bitcoin Cash, Cardano, NEM, Litecoin, Stellar, EOS, IOTA, Dash, NEO, Monero, Bitcoin Gold and many others. The new Weiss Cryptocurrency Ratings, to be released January 24, are the first by a financial…

January 22, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Who are the real beneficiaries of MIFID 2?

The following article was written by Bjorn Enqvist, Managing Director at Advanced Markets. I’m sure there aren’t many industry peers who have managed to escape the MIFID 2 avalanche this past year and, perhaps only the frenzy surrounding crypto currencies, ICO and Bitcoin comes close to the boiling hot MIFID 2 topic in 2017. For the…

January 22, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

PEGAS sets again a new high in 2017

PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, jst informed that it has achieved its best trading results in 2017 by reaching a new record with 1,953.9 TWh , improving its previous record (1,733.3 TWh in 2016) by almost 13%. The top volume was still observed on the Dutch TTF delivery area where over…

January 22, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Top WordPress Plug-ins for your website

The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that WordPress has taken over the world. Search trends on Google reveal the considerable daylight between WordPress and other content management systems (CMS). The blogging platform continues to reign as the most popular CMS in the world,…