Aetos Sydney FC Australia A League
November 21, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex sports sponsorship: Aetos launches Australia A-League football pitch-side advertising

Continuing our series of articles covering the different ways that Retail FX brokers are putting their marketing budgets into sports related sponsorships of all kinds, ASIC and FCA licensed Aetos Capital Group has announced a match pitch-side advertising campaign with Sydney FC, the defending champions of Australia A-League football and the largest football club in Australia.…

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November 20, 2017 BY Mariela Naydenova

Bitcoin hits new all-time high - the $8,000 barrier is down

Bitcoin's price is skyrocketing again, trading in all exchanges for above $8,000, even hitting $8,200 on November, 20th, 2017. Just last week, the cryptocurrency was trading at around $5,600 level, after the community seemed divided over Bitcoin Gold and the fork that Bitcoin was about to go through. The new all-time high was set after…

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Chris Humphrey RationalFX
November 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

RationalFX promotes Chris Humphrey to CEO

Leading UK foreign exchange and international payments provider RationalFX has announced the appointment of Chris Humphrey as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. RationalFX co-founder Paresh Davdra is stepping down from the role to focus on his role as CEO of RationalFX’s sister-brand Xendpay. Chris Humphrey has been COO of RationalFX since 2015, and is an…

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wechat hack advertising
November 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

The WeChat Power Boost

The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. What WeChat can do for your brokerage, is similar to what a protein shake will do for your body; supercharge energy levels and provide extended power. But unlike the protein drink, it does this through the power of integration. WeChat essentially offers a complete…

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cnmv spain forex regulation
November 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Spain regulator CNMV warns against unregulated FX sites Forex.cat and Forextrading.cat

Spain's financial regulator National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) has issued a warning regarding two .cat websites, forex.cat and forextrading.cat. We would note that forextrading.cat leads to the Spanish language website of offshore FX broker LiteForex, based in the Marshall Islands, liteforex.es. Interestingly, the .cat Internet domain is one of the issues of dispute between the Spanish…

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FX settlement
November 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

UBS, RBS, JPMorgan, Citi, Barclays, HSBC heading towards EU settlement for FX rate rigging cartel

The Financial Times is reporting that several of the world's leading banks are heading towards final negotiations on a financial settlement (read:fines) with the European Commission, following a more than four year long probe into allegations they formed a cartel to rig the $5 trillion global FX market. The FT named UBS, RBS, JPMorgan, Citigroup, Barclays,…

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SFC fines
November 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

ANZ and NAB fined $10 million each for 'unconscionable conduct' in setting of the Bank Bill Swap Rate

Australia financial regulator ASIC has announced that it has accepted enforceable undertakings from Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ASX:ANZ), and National Australia Bank Ltd. (ASX:NAB), to address conduct relating to the Bank Bill Swap Rate (BBSW). Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) and National Australia Bank (NAB) have today entered into enforceable undertakings (EUs) with ASIC…

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market movements
November 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

How to Capitalize Off Current Market Movements

The following article was written by Jeff Broth, a business writer and personal finance advisor. Consulting for SMB owners and entrepreneurs for more than 7 years. The current state of the financial markets presents opportunities to savvy investors. For starters, we are now entering a phase where monetary tightening is the order of the day…

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