Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…
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Prime Broker and Clearing firm GPP announced that it relocates to larger offices to accommodate growing business lines and coincides move with a rebrand and new website. So far GPP's number of clients is up 14% compared to last year. In February GPP launched Structured Products Business and is set to launch new business lines…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that UK online brokerage London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG) has continued to build its management team, hiring forex industry veteran Emilio Lobo as its new Head of Business Development. Mr. Lobo spent the last year consulting on MiFID II product development and compliance. From 2013-2016 he ran the IronFX representative…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) just released its quarterly results for the three months ended March 31 2017. The highlights are: Revenue and other income for Q14 2017 was 11% higher than Q1 2016, which was attributable to: - Increases in core revenue including Stock Exchange listing fees and depository, custody and nominee…
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The former Bundesbank president and acting chairman of UBS, Alex Weber, and German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble have in the past couple of days said they believe the European Central Bank will or should soon begin tapering its quantitative easing. They hinted that that could happen around September. With growth at some of the highest…
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A strategic data agreement between Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) and S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) will deliver the industry’s most comprehensive transcript data service to financial services professionals, Thomson Reuters reported earlier today. Under the agreement, S&P Global Market Intelligence (a division of S&P Global) will become a major provider of transcript coverage on both public and…
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Thursday May 11th is a crucial day for GBP traders with the release of a series of UK economic data at 09:30 BST. Followed by the Bank of England’s (BoE) interest rate decision and monetary policy minutes at 12:00 BST and the NIESR GDP estimate (Feb to April) at 13:00 BST. Recent UK economic data…
Read moreWe had flagged the potential for producer prices to dip yet there are additional signs this could be the beginning of a larger move lower. USDJPY continues to look bullish as it heads back above 114 for the 2nd session this week. Where producer prices missed, consumer prices tried to make up today to narrow…
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Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…
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