ADS Securities management
May 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FX Executive Moves: Nidal Abdelhadi joins ADS Securities from Advanced Markets as Head of Institutional Sales

LeapRate has learned that experienced Forex industry executive Nidal Abdelhadi has joined Abu Dhabi based FX brokerage house ADS Securities as its new Head of Global Institutional Sales. A native of Jordan, Mr. Abdelhadi began his FX career with Jordanian-owned but Swiss-based MIG Bank, spending 10 years at MIG moving up the ranks from regional…

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May 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Rakuten becomes first Japan forex broker to launch Tradency’s RoboX FX robot trading platform

Japan retail forex broker Rakuten, Inc. (TYO:4755) and financial technology provider Tradency today announced that the two companies have collaborated to launch the RoboX service. As a result of this newly formed partnership, the RoboX service will become available to Rakuten Securities, retail forex traders. Rakuten will become the first broker offering this service in…

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May 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SGX welcomes Waterland Futures as Derivatives Trading Member

Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced that Waterland Futures Company Limited (WLF) has become a Trading Member in its derivatives market. Established in 1993, Taipei-based WLF focuses on three main areas in futures and options – brokerage, advisory services, and proprietary trading. Its largest shareholder is Waterland Securities Company Limited. Janice Kan, Senior Vice President for Derivatives…

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May 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

AlgoTrader adds automated Bitcoin algo trading

The Swiss based company AlgoTrader which provides algorithmic trading solution to support automated Bitcoin trading just announced that has added an automated Bitcoin algo trading - an algorithmic trading software that allows trading of cryptocurrencies on a fully automated quantitative basis. Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are a hot trading topic this year. Many banks are already establishing blockchain-based…

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clone firm FCA warning
May 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against We.Insure clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm We.Insure. 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 to scam…

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