Admiral Markets launches futures trading via CFDs
September 21, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Admiral Markets to upgrade trading terms for Admiral.Classic and other obsolete account types

Global forex broker Admiral Markets has made an announcement, addressed to all its clients with "older" accounts on the AM-Live trading server. The announcement contains a number of changes aimed at providing up-to-date trading conditions to obsolete account types in order to improve our quality of service and provide better compliance with the current regulatory…

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bitcoin
September 20, 2017 BY Mariela Naydenova

Another Bitcoin Split On The Horizon?

As reported by Bloomberg today, Bitcoin is facing another possible split in November, which would mean that the world will have three different versions of the cryptocurrency. With the growing popularity of the currency, miners and developers seek new ways to diversify the increasing “hunger” of the population. One of the “Bitcoin gurus”, Roger Ver,…

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Michael J Casey Coindesk
September 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

The Age of Cryptocurrency author Michael Casey joins CoinDesk as Advisory Board Chairman

Michael J. Casey, an 18-year veteran of the Wall Street Journal, globally renowned co-author of The Age of Cryptocurrency, and Senior Advisor at the MIT Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative, has today joined CoinDesk, the leading media, events and information services company for the digital asset and blockchain technology community as Chairman of its Advisory Board. Casey will…

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real time market data
September 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

RavenPack launches trading signals for fundamental investors utilizing big data analytics

RavenPack, which provides big data analytics to financial institutions, today launched a new service to create trading signals from big data including the web, news, social media, regulatory filings, and more. Primarily utilized by quantitative hedge fund and asset managers, the new enhancements now allow more traditional investors to use the RavenPack platform to apply…

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xceptor data automation
September 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Xceptor hires IHS Markit's Todd Rudley as Sales Director for North America

Xceptor, a leading provider of process and data automation services for financial institutions, today announced the appointment of Todd Rudley as Sales Director for North America. Reporting to Andrew Kouloumbrides, Chief Executive Officer, Rudley is responsible for managing existing clients and increasing sales with financial institutions in the US and Canada. The North American market…

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MT5 platform
September 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FX liquidity provider CFH Clearing adds MT5 trading platform

FCA regulated FX Prime of Prime brokerage and liquidity provider CFH Clearing and MetaTrader trading platform developer MetaQuotes have announced that CFH Clearing will now offer MetaTrader 5 (MT5) to clients. According to CFH Clearing top management, this latest addition maps onto its strategy of offering flexibility and choice to clients, with access to the very…

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