The following article was written by Jens Chrzanowski, Member of the Management Board of Admiral Markets Group AS. Hello, My article this week is intended for the active trader, always looking for smart, advanced order functions. Let’s have a closer look at Smart-Lines – one of MetaTrader Supreme Edition’s add-ons, available for both MT4 and…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published a report outlining how the regulatory sandbox has met its objectives over the first year of operation. The sandbox was established to support the FCA’s objective of promoting effective competition in the interests of consumers. The sandbox enables firms to test innovative products, services or business models in…
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BCS Global Markets, the Russian independent financial house, today announced that it has conducted the firm’s initial public offering (IPO) on the Moscow Exchange. BCS Global Markets acted as Joint Global Coordinators and Joint Bookrunners on the IPO of OR PJSC (the “Company” and, together with its subsidiaries, “Obuv Rossii” or the “Group”). The total…
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Brickblock, a trading platform to connect real-world assets and cryptocurrencies, announced that it has partnered with the nakamo.to team in a bid to explore new levels of scalability. The Brickblock team has been striving to make the independant trading of real-world assets on the blockchain a possibility. Its focus has been building a foundation for…
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Exness Marketing Director, Igor Rudi, alongside director of Institutional Relations for Real Madrid, Emilio Butragueño, and first team players Benzema, Kroos, Vallejo and Achraf, presented the partnership agreement signed between the FCA and CySEC regulated retail forex broker Exness and the iconic football club just over two months ago. Another partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo was announced right after. The event, which took…
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The Vienna Stock Exchange announced that it is further expanding its range of offerings for domestic investors with the new "ETF segment" launching today. Passive investment funds offer investors a simple, effective and inexpensive way of investing in the most diverse markets and regions. ETFs track stock indices as precisely as possible – one of…
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FIA announced the launch of FIA Training this week, a program of learning tools that cover important topics like market conduct and compliance. Developed by industry professionals for industry professionals, FIA Training courses help educate traders, senior managers, analysts and programmers as well as sales, client services, operations and other team members. A key component…
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ASX-listed company Adairs Limited (Adairs) has paid a penalty of $66,000 after ASIC issued an infringement notice alleging it had not complied with the continuous disclosure obligations. ASIC announced that it has found there are reasonable grounds to believe that Adairs was in breach of its continuous disclosure obligations between 23 September and 2 November…
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Tech Bureau, a fintech and cryptocurrency solutions company, and Metaps Inc., a fintech company and mobile marketing platform developer, announced its plan for a ‘Timebank’ token sale on COMSA. COMSA, a complete Initial Coin Offering (ICO) fundraising and cross-chaining platform built on the NEM blockchain protocol, streamlines cryptocurrency funding and cross-chain transactions. Timebank is a…
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LeapRate Exclusive... After some initial growing pains which included the departures of CEO Klaus Buhl and COO Ashraf Agha, LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated institutional FX provider True Trade (truetrademarkets.com) has gone live. Institutional clients have begun trading trading FX on (Phase 1) of True Trade’s new proprietary execution platform. True Trade provides clients with…
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