Ethiopian Airlines extends partnership with Paysafe
November 29, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Ethiopian Airlines partners with Paysafe, offers Skrill and NETELLER digital wallets payments

Ethiopian Airlines, one of the largest airlines in Africa, just announced that it has partnered with payments services company Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS) to offer customers the option of paying via Skrill and NETELLER digital wallets. Ethiopian Airlines (Ethiopian) customers can now use their Skrill and NETELLER digital wallets to book outbound flights from Qatar,…

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PrimeXM
November 29, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

PrimeXM announces integration with Azul Zing for its order routing service XCore

Aggregation and connectivity solutions provider PrimeXM has announced that it has been collaborating Java runtime solutions specialist Azul Systems and its Azul Zing to further facilitate the low latency nature of PrimeXM’s proprietary order routing service, the XCore. Zing is a unique Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that has been deployed extensively throughout the financial sector industry.…

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November 29, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Equities of Swedish companies now tradable at Boerse Stuttgart

Boerse Stuttgart and its Scandinavian subsidiary, Nordic Growth Market (NGM), announced that they are combining their services in the equity segment: Swedish public limited companies listed on the NGM can now seek a secondary listing in Stuttgart. One of the conditions set for obtaining a secondary listing is an investor relations service in English. The…

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Milan trading
November 29, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

smartTrade opens Milan office

Multi-asset electronic trading solutions provider smartTrade has announced the opening of a new office in Milan, Italy, to support the company's continued growth. smartTrade stated that it was seeing strong growth in its FX and Fixed Income market shares and in its number of clients. smartTrade said it has not only witnessed a strong increase…

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pay with payment gateway
November 29, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

What links payment methods and conversion rates?

The following article was written by freelance writer Agnieszka Pulak. Choosing the right payment system is directly related to increasing conversion rates on your e-commerce website. We can clearly see the impact of payment methods on conversion rates – it can be positive or negative depending on the merchant's choice. Any merchant who is interested in increasing…

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BIS announces key appointments in Singapore and Switzerland
November 29, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bursa Malaysia Berhad announces change of Director to its subsidiaries

Bursa Malaysia Berhad today announced the appointment of Mr. Christopher Lee Fix to the Board of Directors of its subsidiary, Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad (BMD) and its clearing house, Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Clearing Berhad (BMDC). The appointment of Mr. Christopher Lee Fix was nominated by Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group Inc. (CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ:CME)) which…

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Dukascopy adds new CFD bonds and indices for trading on LIVE
November 29, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

New currency pairs available for trading on Dukascopy LIVE

Geneva based Retail FX broker Dukascopy just announced that it has added new currency pairs available for trading on LIVE. The following FX instruments are now available for LIVE trading: USD/THB -US Dollar vs Thai Baht USD/ILS - US Dollar vs Israeli Shekel USD/HUF - US Dollar vs Hungarian Forint EUR/HUF - Euro vs Hungarian…

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November 29, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

London Stock Exchange Group CEO Xavier Rolet steps down

London Stock Exchange Group plc (LSEG) just announced that, at the Board's request, Xavier Rolet has agreed to step down as CEO with immediate effect. The Board has asked David Warren, CFO, to assume the additional role of Interim CEO until a successor is appointed. David Warren is well qualified, having been CFO of LSEG…

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Integral reports
November 29, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Costs of reporting for MiFID / MiFIR

The following article was written by Sophie Gerber, Director of  regulatory and compliance solutions provider TRAction Fintech. As some of the largest-scale reforms for the European financial services industry, MiFID II and MiFIR which will be implemented on Wednesday, 3 January 2018 are set to cost billions of dollars in implementation costs and ongoing compliance…

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