The Warsaw Stock Exchange announced that extends the fee reduction for Market Makers of WIG20 futures until 30 September 2017. Under the promotion the exchange has reduced fees between 27% and 41% with respect to volume threshold reached by eligible entity. Volume thresholds are as follows: from 15 000 up to 35 000 contracts –…
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LeapRate Exclusive… Some of the world's leading institutional investors continue to make big bets on a turnaround in shares of leading UK online brokers, which were hit hard late last year after the FCA proposed new strict rules governing Forex and CFD trading. LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK) has increased…
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The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) announced the target implementation date for the two-day settlement cycle (T+2) on March 2, 2018. SET President Kesara Manchusree commented: The target date to move toward T+2 settlement cycle, from the current T+3, has been extensively consulted with all stakeholders namely The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Bank of…
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Retail Forex broker Alpari Limited has opened an office at Maeva Tower, a modern business center in Ebene CyberCity in Mauritius. A favorable business climate, as well as Mauritius' focus on developing a competitive legal environment, has boosted activity in the macroeconomic area of Asia, the Indian Ocean, and East Africa. The opening of this…
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OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of financial markets for 10,000 U.S. and global securities, today announced Neo Lithium Corp. (TSX-V: NLC; OTCQX: NTTHF), a junior natural resource company focused on lithium brine exploration, has qualified to trade on the OTCQX® Best Market. Neo Lithium upgraded to OTCQX from the Pink® market. Neo Lithium…
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The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today obtained an interim order from the Court of First Instance to freeze approximately $2.66 million in the bank accounts of Mr Heriberto C. Perez Valdes in connection with a suspected Pyramid and Ponzi scheme. The SFC alleges that Valdes was involved in the scheme operated by DFRF Enterprises…
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LCH, a global clearing house, announced today that its first European buy-side client is now live on CDSClear. Amundi is now clearing credit default swaps (CDS) at CDSClear via its clearing broker BNP Paribas. The expansion into client clearing is the latest development for CDSClear, which has seen activity on its service grow significantly in…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today issued an Opinion and Order refusing registration with the CFTC for Zero Chaos Advisors, LLC and Ronald Edward Fisher. Additionally, Zero Chaos and Fisher agree never to apply for CFTC registration or claim exemption from registration; and never to engage in any activity requiring registration with the…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Denmark based financial trading technology provider Tradeworks has hired longtime Gwazy / Windsor Brokers executive Graham Moss. Based in Cyprus, Mr. Moss will be responsible for selling Tradeworks' auto trading platform into the Cyprus Retail Forex broker community, and beyond. Graham Moss has spent the past eight years with…
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The Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) announced that will add Packs and Bundles functions as trading strategies of Three-month Euroyen futures. While TFX currently offers a fee discount program for synthetic Packs and Bundles transactions executed via block trade facility (off-exchange), it will introduce another fee discount program Packs and Bundles executed on-exchange. Packs Strategy purchase…
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