STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business, and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, today announced that an ETF based on the STOXX ASEAN Select Dividend 30 Index has been tradeable on the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) since Tuesday. The index is licensed to One AM, Thailand’s largest equity…
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LeapRate Exclusive Interview... Following our exclusive coverage of Forex broker solutions provider MahiFX becoming the latest FX sector company to receive an FCA license, we are pleased to present to LeapRate readers our conversation on the topic with Nick Mortimer, Head of MFX Retail Sales for MahiFX. Does the FCA license change the way MahiFX does business?…
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Information giant Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) has teamed-up with Legal Geek to help advance innovation and collaboration within the LawTech startup community. Rapid technological innovation continues to shake up the legal services industry, and LawTech startups have the potential to compete with, as well as to enhance, existing legal services offerings. Many startups aren’t innovating…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued the final report on the Guidelines regarding the calibration of circuit breakers and the publication of the trading halts under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). These Guidelines provide further detail on the parameters that trading venues should consider for the calibration of their…
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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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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that Judge James I. Cohn of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida entered final default judgments against Relief Defendants Westward International Ltd. and Coucarin Holdings Ltd., both of Deerfield Beach, Florida. The Default Judgment Orders, both entered on March 23, 2017, require Westward…
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Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes just announced that has developed the mobile version of the MetaTrader 5 Web. The web application is adapted for smartphones and allows trading Forex and on world exchanges from any mobile browser. Currently, the beta version provides the basic trading features: online quotes of financial instruments, the full set of…
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30 Issuers, 161 Funds Now Listed on Bats in the U.S. Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, welcomed a new Cambria fund to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The Cambria Tail Risk ETF (Bats: TAIL), the sixth ETF listed by Cambria with Bats, seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing in a portfolio…
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Robo-advisors are gradually becoming more popular in Asia, especially among retail investors. While it will take some time, these advancements-and the technologies that underpin these platforms-are likely to seep into the institutional space in years to come. Wei-Shen Wong from Waters Technology speaks to several firms in the region to discuss how they’ve built out…
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Xceptor, a provider of process automation and data management services for the financial sector, today announced the appointment of Marco Sablone as Director of Sales & Business Development for North America. Reporting directly to Andrew Kouloumbrides, Chief Executive Officer, Sablone will be working closely with existing clients and driving new business as part of the company’s…
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