Continuing to cement its spot among the world's leading Retail FX brokers, FCA and CySEC regulated broker Exness has reported record FX trading volumes for the month of November, topping the rarefied air above the $300 billion mark for just the second time. Exness has reported that forex trading volumes in its system came in at $324.4 billion…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) announced that it has welcomed a new ARK fund to the Cboe ETF Marketplace. The ARK Israel Innovative Technology ETF (Cboe: IZRL) seeks to provide investment results that closely correspond, before fees and expenses, to the performance of the ARK Israeli Innovation Index. The Index is designed to track…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that the long-planned merger of publicly traded Nukkleus Inc (OTCMKTS:NUKK) and related Retail FX broker FXDD with rival broker IronFX has been called off. The original deal, set in June of last year, called for a multi-stage and somewhat complicated set of transactions which would see IronFX as…
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced an award of more than $4.1 million to a former company insider who alerted the agency to a widespread, multi-year securities law violation and continued to provide important information and assistance throughout the SEC’s investigation. The whistleblower is the third awarded by the SEC in the past week.…
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On 4 December 2017, Moscow Exchange (MOEX) began offering Sponsored Market Access (SMA) to resident and non-resident clients of MOEX market participants to facilitate their trading on the Russian market. The SMA technology allows direct access to trading on Moscow Exchange's Equity & Bond Market. Prior to 4 December, clients of MOEX market participants could…
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A California-based audit firm is being charged with conducting flawed audits and reviews of financial statements, which are critical sources of information for investors, SEC announced earlier today. The SEC’s Enforcement Division alleges that Anton & Chia LLP and its accountants ignored numerous indications of fraudulent financial reporting by three of the firm’s audit clients…
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LCH, a leading global clearing house majority owned by London Stock Exchange Group Plc (LON:LSE), has announced that it has cleared a total of $745 million G10 FX NDFs currency pairs through its ForexClear service. This volume was achieved within one month of the new product’s go live at LCH. By clearing these additional currency…
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ASIC has negotiated the imposition of additional conditions on the Australian financial services (AFS) license of MyPlanner Australia Pty Ltd (MyPlanner) after they found MyPlanner was giving poor financial advice, and lacked adequate monitoring and supervision of its representatives. As a large number of representatives and staff recently moved to a second AFS licence, MyPlanner…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Independence Loans. 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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2017 has been an important year for Eurex, Europe’s largest derivatives exchange and part of Deutsche Börse Group. After seeing challenging market conditions as a consequence of an election cycle in Europe, shortly before year-end, all eyes are now on MiFID II. Eurex is ready and is supporting the transition of markets”, said Randolf Roth,…
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