CMC Markets adds Spread Bet API plug-in for institutional FX and CFD traders LeapRate

October 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CMC Markets adds Spread Bet API plug-in for institutional FX and CFD traders

FCA regulated online CFD brokerage house CMC Markets Plc (LON:CMCX) announced that has today launched its native Spread Bet Application Programming Interface (API). This gives other institutions the ability to quote a ‘pounds per point’ price on any Index, Commodity, Treasury or Forex instrument that CMC offers, in a seamless manner. CMC first offered institutions…

October 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Playtech completes $150 million acquisition of ACM Group (Alpha)

Online gaming and financial trading systems provider Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) has announced that it has closed its previously announced acquisition of market maker ACM Group Limited (Alpha). The deal was completed as a sale of assets from ACM. In August Playtech revealed its agreement to acquire the fast-growing privately held Alpha, in a structured transaction…

October 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Unlicensed offshore FX broker Finance Trades gets warning from Mauritius FSC

Mauritius financial regulator the Financial Services Commission (FSC) has issued a note that Novatec LLP is claiming to be an international company which provides its customers with an efficient trading platform for private investors to conduct their activity all over the world. It purports to have its contact details as: 225 Kingstown Park Road P.O…

October 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ANZ goes live with Fitbit Ionic payments

The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited (ANZ) today announced it had partnered with global wearables brand, Fitbit, to offer customers the ability to make payments on the run through Fitbit Ionic, the ultimate health and fitness watch. From today, ANZ’s Australian customers will be able to load their eligible Visa debit or credit…

October 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Lost in Translation: How to ensure your marketing content is accurately translated

The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. I started my career in advertising working for a large ad agency. Early on in my career, we were tasked with adapting the latest campaign from a large airline from English to Spanish. The campaign promoted the then launch of their new leather seats,…

October 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SIX Securities Services goes live to report derivatives transactions in Switzerland

Six months after receiving approval from FINMA, the Swiss trade repository service provided by SIX Securities Services officially went live. The vast majority of the large financial counterparties in Switzerland (classified as FC+), starting their reporting obligations in the first phase today, decided in favor of the SIX Securities Services solution and are set up…

October 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

New market data feed provides access to all Irish Stock Exchange order book equity data

Deutsche Börse announced that is offering the new market data feed CEF ultra+ Irish Stock Exchange Order by Order from October 2017. The high-performance data feed enables access to the entire visible Irish Stock Exchange order book and provides clients with comprehensive market data on all ISE-listed equity and ETF instruments traded. The launch extends…

October 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

ETX Capital releases upgraded version of its web trading platform TraderPro

FCA regulated online broker ETX Capital today unveiled a new and improved version of its multi-asset class, proprietary web trading platform – TraderPro. Active clients have been given an exclusive first chance to try out the new platform. What’s new? According to ETX Capital: More intuitive - the new web trading platform has an enhanced…

October 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Japan Exchange Group releases First Half of Fiscal Year, Nikkei 225 Weekly Options with an all-time high

Japan Exchange Group has just released Trading Overview in September 2017 & First Half of Fiscal Year 2017 (April to September). Cash Equity Market In the first half of FY2017, the daily average trading value for the TSE 1st Section (domestic common stocks) was JPY 2.6589 trillion. In the ETF market, the daily average trading…

October 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Logista Advisors LLC to pay $250,000 fine for Spoofing on a foreign futures exchange

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Logista Advisors LLC, a crude-oil-trading firm based in Houston, Texas. The Order finds that, from approximately September 2013 through October 2014, Logista failed to diligently supervise the handling by its employees and officers of commodity interest accounts and other…