The best thing you can do for your trading account is to get a grip. Yael Warman from Leverate explains… The best thing you can do for your trading account is to get a grip. Let me explain. Brian Knutson, an associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University, found that financial trading has the…
Read moreMarkets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services ICAP plc (LON:IAP) just announced that it has appointed Kieran Walsh as Director of European Agricultural and Soft Commodities to launch and manage a new European agricultural commodities desk. Kieran will report to Graham Francis, Head of EMEA Energy and Commodities, ICAP Energy,…
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The Supervisory Board of the Financial Sector (CSSF) warns the public of the activities of an entity named Sfilbank, operating at www.sfilbank.com. The company claims to be established in Luxembourg. The CSSF informs the public that an entity named Sfilbank is unknown to it and has not been granted any authorisation to provide banking and/or…
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Bats Europe (Bats), the region’s largest equities exchange, today announced its eight new benchmark indices for the French, German, Swiss and Italian markets are now live. The indices, based on Bats market data, provide real-time, high-quality and low-cost alternatives to the benchmark indices provided by the incumbent index providers. The eight new Bats Indices are…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Deutsche Bank has agreed to settle charges that it misled clients about the performance of a core feature of its automated order router that primarily sent client orders to dark pools. The New York Attorney General’s office today announced a parallel action, and Deutsche Bank agreed to…
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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 UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced that are aware an email was sent on Friday, December 16 2016 entitled "FCA Regulation 2017". The email appeared to be from [email protected]. The FCA would like to warn recipients that his email was not sent by the authority and should be deleted without opening.
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The Administrative Appeals tribunal (AAT) has set aside a decision by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to ban Mr Gerard McCormack from providing any financial services. Mr McCormack, of South Melbourne, Victoria, a former financial adviser with the National Australia Bank (NAB) was banned from providing financial services for five years commencing on…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that GMO-Z.com Trade UK Limited, the FCA regulated brokerage arm of Japanese retail forex giant GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), posted a £2.4 million (USD $3.0 million) net loss for Fiscal 2016. The company has a March 31 fiscal year end. Tokyo-based GMO Click is, by volume, the world's largest retail…
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Israel business news source TheMarker is reporting a merger in the Israel retail forex arena, with Colmex buying popular trading site Matach24.com. 'Matach' is an acronym for 'foreign exchange' in Hebrew. Colmex is one of just six companies to have received a Dealers' license from the Israel Securities Authority (ISA), out of the 21 firms (including…
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