London terror UK election
June 08, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

UK General Election and the Influence of Terror

The following article was written by Jens Chrzanowski, Member of  the Management Board of Admiral Markets Group AS. Hello, The obvious market event of the week is today’s UK General Election, with first results and projections expected tomorrow morning. Will it be May or Mayday? ...Maybe! Who knows?! First London, then Manchester and now London…

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June 08, 2017 BY FxPro

How will Different Election Outcomes Affect the Markets?

Today is a big day for the market with three major events upcoming: the market-focused UK general election, the Former FBI Director Comey’s testimony, and ECB’s rate decision and press conference at 12:45 and 13:30 BST respectively. The market is expected to be volatile across the board. In terms of the UK general election, there…

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Exness reports record trading volumes
June 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Exness makes improvements to client registration process

Retail forex broker Exness announced a new set of major improvements to its registration process for its international clients. Note that the changes have no impact on the registration processes of Exness (Cy) Ltd and Exness Europe Limited which are regulated and supervised by CySEC and the FCA respectively. The improvements are scheduled to be implemented…

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Crypto “bot” trading hurting market reputation and individual investors
June 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Broadridge: Robo-advisors and inorganic intelligence are the future of wealth management industry

A new wave of robo-advisors, an increasing number of partnerships between wealth managers and widespread usage of inorganic intelligence will drive significant change and opportunities for the wealth management industry in 2017 and beyond, according to a new report developed by Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) in association with Aite Group. The report, “The Digital…

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June 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TMX Group releases equity financing statistics for May

TMX Group (TSX: X) today announced its financing activity on Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange for May, 2017. Toronto Stock Exchange welcomed 15 new issuers in May 2017, compared with 18 in the previous month and six in May 2016. The new listings included six exchange traded funds, two mining companies, one clean…

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TradeIt app Interactive Brokers IBKR
June 08, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Trading app provider TradeIt connects core products to Interactive Brokers

Trading app provider TradeIt has announced that it has connected its core products - Portfolio View and Trading Ticket - to Interactive Brokers Group Inc (NASDAQ:IBKR), the largest US-based electronic broker by DARTs. Over the past month, TradeIt launched early-access IBKR support on Stockflare and the Trigger Finance app. With the current announcement, TradeIt is extending IBKR…

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clone firm FCA warning
June 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Landa Asset Management clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Landa Asset Management. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…

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June 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ESMA appoints new Chair to Investment Management Standing Committee

The Board of Supervisors of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has appointed Martin Moloney, Head of Markets Policy Division of the Central Bank of Ireland to serve as the chair of the Investment Management Standing Committee. The standing committees are expert groups drawn from ESMA staff and the national competent authorities for securities…

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June 08, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bats welcomes NuShares funds to the Bats ETF Marketplace

Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company welcomed two Nuveen-sponsored ETFs to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The NuShares ESG International Developed Markets Equity ETF (Bats: NUDM) seeks to track the investment results of the TIAA ESG International Developed Markets Equity Index, which is comprised solely of listed equity securities issued by companies (and depositary…

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cmc markets offices
June 08, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

CMC Markets Revenues up 13%, Profits up 58% in the second half of Fiscal 2017

We believe that most of the headlines covering the just-announced Fiscal 2017 (March 31 year-end) results at London-based online trading firm CMC Markets Plc (LON:CMCX) will focus on the company's regulatory-mandated overview of the year, which saw activity across the board (Revenues, EBITDA, profits, trading activity...) down single-digit percent as compared to the previous year. However, digging…

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