Solactive, the innovative German index engineer, announced the launch of the Solactive Stable Income Europe Index. This index is replicating the performance of 50 European shares selected on the basis of a screening strategy blending together free cash flow yield, dividend yield and low volatility characteristics. The index targets investors interested in a smart beta…
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Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) today charged Dato’ Vincent Leong Jee Wai for insider trading of shares of Maxbiz Corporation Berhad (Maxbiz). Dato’ Vincent Leong, 58, was charged at the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court this morning with two counts of communicating material non-public information between November 2010 and January 2011 to one Leong Wye Keong when…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today an opinion regarding the implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Regulation (MiFIR). The opinion clarifies the concept of “traded on a trading venue” (TOTV), which is relevant for a number of provisions under MIFID II and MiFIR. The concept of…
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The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has prohibited Ms Bernie Wong Ching Man, a former employee of Citibank (Hong Kong) Limited, from re-entering the industry for four months from 19 May 2017 to 18 September 2017 for forging a client’s signature. The SFC found that in July 2015, Wong forged a customer’s signature on a…
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Spotware Systems announced today delivery of cTrader version 2.01 for Windows. The new build has been delivered to all cTrader brokers and the update will automatically initiate next time the platform is launched by any user. For cTrader Web users, the new version is available immediately from any popular browser. The cTrader Windows update includes…
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Last week USD had its biggest weekly fall since the US presidential election, caused by Trump’s Russia leak scandal. This week markets’ risk-off sentiment has been slightly eased. On May 18th USD/JPY hit a low of 110.22, last seen on April 25th. Notably, the downtrend has held above the significant support line at 110.00. Bulls…
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Multi-asset trading technology provider SpotOption has announced the launch of their latest product, called Digital Contracts. Following suit in terms of marketability and simplicity to the CFD product, Digital Contracts provide a transparent and fresh new way to trade on assets with real-time prices such as stocks, commodities, currencies, and indices. Digital Contracts are extremely…
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Spanish regulator CNMV just warned that the binary options brokers and websites: https://www.toroption.com/es/; DGX SYSTEM LTD, operating at www.optioncm.com; and 53 CAPITAL TRADE LIMITED, operating at www.53capitaltrade.com and www.53option.com are not licensed or registered and, therefore, are not authorized to provide investment services. The companies are not authorised to provide the investment services detailed in…
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FX liquidity and connectivity technology solutions provider PrimeXM and MT5 developer MetaQuotes have announced the release of PrimeXM's MT5 integration gateway to their XCore system. This execution and aggregation technology supports low-latency connectivity to over 120 leading providers of Forex and CFD liquidity, and is a very popular solution among institutional clients. Now, brokers can use…
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The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. Imagine a world without a CRM. It’s a scary thought, like going back to outdoor plumbing. Clearly much of the work a company does would not be possible without it. And whilst there are critical features that we all need in order to…
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