March 22, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Tradeworks hires Graham Moss from Gwazy, adds Cyprus presence for selling its auto trading platform to Forex brokers

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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March 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TFX adds Packs and Bundles functions as trading strategies of Three-month Euroyen futures

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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March 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters updates its Legal Tracker

Information giant Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) just announced that corporate legal departments can more easily compare their performance to industry benchmarks and streamline frequently-used workflows with new automation tools in the latest update of Thomson Reuters Legal Tracker™ (formerly Serengeti Tracker™), the e-billing and matter management solution. Tracker Benchmark Index data is now available in…

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March 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC cancels AFSL of Aquaint Capital Limited

ASIC has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of Aquaint Capital Limited (in liquidation) ACN 110 353 065. Aquaint is the responsible entity for Aquaint Income Fund ARSN 114 372 619 (the Scheme). It was placed into liquidation on 1 September 2016 following a creditors' resolution that Aquaint be wound up on the basis…

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March 22, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM cuts Board to seven with departures of Eric LeGoff and Jim Brown

The departures at retail forex broker FXCM and its newly-named parent company Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR) aren't limited to just the management ranks. The company has announced that two outside directors, Eric LeGoff, and James G. (Jim) Brown, would be stepping down from the Global Brokerage board, without replacements planned. Following the departures of LeGoff and Brown,…

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March 21, 2017 BY admin

Spain sets in motion stricter marketing of retail Forex and CFD accounts

Back on March 8th, LeapRate covered when Spain’s financial regulator CNMV (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores) issued its Activity Plan for 2017-2018... In that activity plan, the CNMV did not outline specific plans to target Forex and CFD trading, but it did state that one of its four strategic objectives will include “analysis of initiatives…

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March 21, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Vision Financial Partners fined more than $6.5 million in CFTC binary options fraud action

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Judge James I. Cohn of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida entered a Consent Order against CFTC Defendants Neil Pecker with a last-known address in Longwood, Florida and his company, Vision Financial Partners, LLC (Vision) of Deerfield Beach, who were charged…

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