BoC: Bank of Canada January Rate Meeting: What to Expect?
October 18, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TMX Group announces integrated securities and payment platform as next phase of Project Jasper

Payments Canada, the Bank of Canada and TMX Group (TSX:X) today announced a new collaboration to experiment with an integrated securities and payment settlement platform based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) as part of the third phase of the Project Jasper research initiative. Building on previous Jasper work, this phase of the project will develop…

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October 18, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Capital.com adds desktop web trading platform

CySEC regulated mobile trading specialist Capital Com SV Investments Limited, which operates the Capital.com brand, has announced that it is now introducing a desktop trading platform. In addition, Capital.com stated that next month it will unveil its AI-powered technology, SmartFeed, which aims to correct common behavioural biases that have a negative impact on investors' trading results. As…

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October 18, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe welcomes new issuer EventShares to ETF Marketplace

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (BZX: CBOE | NASDAQ: CBOE) has welcomed EventShares to the Cboe ETF Marketplace, with the launch of three funds. The funds include: The Republican Policies Fund (Bats: GOP) which seeks capital appreciation by investing in market segments that Active Weighting Advisors LLC believes will be impacted by the enactment of Republican…

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Tamas Szabo Pepperstone
October 18, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Pepperstone hires IG Group's Tamas Szabo as Group CEO

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that leading Australian Retail FX and CFDs broker Pepperstone has hired Tamas Szabo as its Group Chief Executive Officer. We expect the company to make a formal announcement shortly. Tamas Szabo was most recently CEO of the Australia and New Zealand operation, and Head of Asia Pacific, for IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG).…

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fma new zealand robo advice
October 18, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

New Zealand FMA to allow personalized Robo Advice

The New Zealand Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has announced that it has decided to grant an exemption to enable personalised robo-advice and is publishing the responses to its earlier consultation. As we reported back in June, the FMA started consultation on whether it should use its exemption powers to enable personalised robo-advice (also known as online or…

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October 17, 2017 BY Mariela Naydenova

Brazil's Central Bank President denounces Bitcoin

ETH News reported that on October 16th, the President of Brazil's Central Bank, Ilan Goldfajn, berated bitcoin as a "bubble" and a "pyramid". Brazil seems to be the next country to enter the "bitcoin conspiracy" theory that the digital currency may be a fraud and illegal method of accumulating value over time. While the technology behind…

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October 17, 2017 BY Mariela Naydenova

Yale's Robert Shiller calls Bitcoin and Gold "Fads"

One of the most renowned professors of economics, Robert Shiller, has recently called bitcoin "a fad" in an interview for CNBC. The author of "Irrational Exuberance" shared his opinion that people should be wary of bitcoin's popularity. He said: "It seems there is some strange enthusiasm for it", referring to the massive growth and excitement…

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