Monaco selects Gemalto’s metal card to bring cryptocurrency to every wallet LeapRate

November 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Monaco selects Gemalto's metal card to bring cryptocurrency to every wallet

Monaco, the pioneering payments and cryptocurrency platform, announced today that it has selected Gemalto to supply innovative card bodies, among which are high-end metal cards for Monaco's range of Visa Platinum cards. Such cards, coupled with the Monaco app, deliver perfect interbank exchange rates and up to 2% cryptocurrency cashback on all purchases. In the…

November 14, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Walbrook Capital (formerly FXCM Securities) rebrands as ITI Capital, plans Prime Brokerage expansion

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated FX and CFDs broker Walbrook Capital Markets Limited has been renamed ITI Capital Limited. Beyond its formal company name, the company's operating brand has also been changed, from Walbrook Capital to ITI Capital. However, at least for the time being, the broker's website url remains at walbrookcapitalmarkets.com.…

November 14, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Hummingbird Trading provides trading app to Valutrades

LeapRate has learned that trading app developer Hummingbird Trading has partnered with FCA licensed FX and CFDs broker Valutrades, to provide Valutrades with its next generation of mobile trading apps. Hummingbird is a proprietary trading platform completely independent of existing systems such as MetaQuotes. Designed around the end user and built using React Native technology,…

November 14, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

XTB woes spook UK FX and CFD shares: IG -3%, Plus500 -5%, LCG -9%

Shares of leading FCA regulated, publicly traded online brokers were under pressure on Monday, after word broke in the Polish press that Warsaw based X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), which operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub trading platform, was under investigation in its home country for fraud. XTB shares…

DFSA launches Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform

November 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FS-ISAC and MAS to strengthen cyber information sharing across nine countries

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) informed that they have launched the FS-ISAC Asia Pacific Regional Analysis Centre’s office and operations in Singapore. The setting up of the Regional Centre in Singapore shows the growing collaboration between the two organisations to fight cybercrime. The Centre…

November 13, 2017 BY Mariela Naydenova

Bitcoin hits $13,900 in Zimbabwe

As bitcoin is now exploding and imploding on a daily basis, going to $8,000 to current lows of $6,300, the "people's currency" thrives in the state of Zimbabwe. Bitcoin seems to offer "rare protection from the onset of hyperinflation and financial implosion", says The Hindu Business Line. Zimbabweans are afraid of their currency losing value…

November 13, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Draven LLC and owner Derek Springfield banned and fined in multi million dollar Forex fraud

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced that Judge David G. Campbell of U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona entered a Consent Order against Defendants Derek Springfield and his company, Draven, LLC (Draven), both of Mesa, Arizona finding that they fraudulently solicited and received at least $1.8 million from approximately 112 commodity pool participants in…

November 13, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FX broker XTB.com suspected by Polish authorities of asymmetric slippage, shares collapse

Shares of Warsaw based X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), which operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub trading platform, tumbled Monday by more than a third before being halted outright, after word broke in the Polish press that a lengthy regulator investigation had uncovered years of fraudulent treatment…

November 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

AFME and IA publish updated Equities Electronic Trading Questionnaire ready for MiFID II

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and the Investment Association (IA) have today published an updated version of the Equities Electronic Order Handling Questionnaire incorporating the obligations and requirements set out under MiFID II. The initiative, which was originally launched in March 2016, establishes a common framework for buy-side clients to request information…

November 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

First ferrous metal product Iron Ore Futures debuts on HKEX

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited‘s (HKEX) first ferrous metal product, cash-settled TSI Iron Ore Fines 62% FE CFR China Futures (Iron Ore Futures) started trading today, with total volume of 1,022 contracts, equivalent to 102,200 tonnes of iron ore, during the day trading session. As an exchange-traded product, Iron Ore Futures aims to provide…