Amid the hype around the cryptocurrency market, an iced tea company has managed to triple its value after adding the word "Blockchain" to its name. The Long Island Iced Tea Corp., which is a beverage company, changed its name to the Long Blockchain Corp. and expressed their hope to get around partner companies that invest…
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One of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, Coinbase, launched Bitcoin Cash on their platform, and just hours after the announcement, they halted the trading of the newly added product on their exchange. Just before Coinbase launched Bitcoin Cash, the price of the digital currency was rising and this rise happened just hours before the launch on…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced charges and an asset freeze against a group of unregistered funds and their owner who allegedly bilked thousands of retail investors, many of them seniors, in a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme. SEC investigators filed this action to prevent further dissipation of investor assets after obtaining court orders in September and November in subpoena enforcement actions that forced…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Loan Oak. 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 tactics to…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that a new CySEC CIF license has been granted to a company called A.N. Allnew Investments Ltd, controlled by former XForex executive Jad Abdel Rahman. Under the new license, the company has launched a new Retail FX brand called LegacyFX, at websites legacyfx.com and for EU based clients at legacyfx.eu. The…
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BlockEx just announced that Ronald Martin has just joined the company as COO. Ronald Martin, former Executive in Residence at Bain Capital Ventures, leaves the traditional financial world to bring his financial platform experience to the blockchain. Martin brings years of experience in FinTech and SaaS as former Senior Vice President & General Manager of…
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Ullink, a global provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions to the financial community, announced today completion of the migration of all customers to the MiFID-ready versions of its market access gateways. In total more than 100 managed and enterprise-deployed customers have successfully upgraded their Ullink market access solutions across 24 European equities and derivatives…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that learned that Simon Henry has resigned his position as Compliance Officer of FCA regulated Goldenway Global Investments (UK) Limited, which operates the GWFX Global retail FX and CFD brokerage brand (at gwfxglobal.com). Simon Henry, GWFX Simon Henry was hired by GWFX just three months ago from London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG), where…
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Today Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) Nordic announced that it has been approved as an Approved Publication Arrangement (APA) by Finansinspektionen, the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA). The license, within Nasdaq Stockholm, is a requirement in order to publish trades executed OTC, outside a regulated trading venue, on behalf of all European investment firms. New MiFID II regulations…
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The EU Commission informed that it has decided to recognize the equivalence of the Swiss legal and supervisory framework for trading venues with that of the EU for a temporary period of one year. The decision allows European securities traders access to the Swiss market even after the new European financial market rules enter into…
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