ChartIQ, the US-based charting, and platform company just announced they've redesigned their HTML5 financial portals and widgets for websites and webmasters with an increased focus on ease of use, flexibility, and interactivity. Another US-based company Xignite provides the data package to ChartIQ and is hosted in the cloud. LeapRate a few months ago spoke with…
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Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats:BATS) just welcomed a new Global X Fund to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The Global X U.S. Infrastructure Development ETF (Bats: PAVE) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Indxx U.S. Infrastructure Development Index. The fund holds a basket of companies involved in…
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Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), the global provider of financial services technology solutions, has launched Credit Sense, a solution that enables financial institutions to meet consumer expectations for personalized credit information by integrating credit scores into the digital banking experience. Credit Sense provides a credit score, daily credit monitoring, insight into factors influencing credit score and…
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Japan’s economy grew faster than first thought in the final three months of 2016. Japan’s Cabinet Office announced that real GDP grew by 0.3% in the December quarter, higher than the 0.2% preliminary reading issued in February, Business Insider reported. Despite the upgrade, it fell short of the 0.4% figure that had been eyed by markets.…
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Spain's financial regulator CNMV (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores) has issued its Activity Plan for 2017-2018. The plan has defined four strategic areas for the next two years, and 50 specific objectives for 2017. While the CNMV did not outline specific plans to target Forex and CFD trading (or Binary Options, for that matter), it…
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Copenhagen based multi asset broker Saxo Bank has just announced that it will close its office in Limassol, Cyprus. The office in Limassol has served as a hub for servicing clients in the CEE and MENA region. Clients will now be serviced from offices in Prague, Dubai and Copenhagen and will have access to the…
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Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced that will mandate all Mainboard IPO companies to allocate to retail investors, at least 5%, or S$50 million, whichever is lower, of their offer size. The introduction of the minimum IPO allocation is aimed at facilitating greater retail participation in Singapore’s equities market. The new rules on the minimum allocation are…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Loans 2 Go. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…
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Given the large response, the FCA will take more time than expected in finalizing the new rules.
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The Autorité des marchés Financiers (AMF) just announced the new composition of the Financial Skills Certification Board. The mechanism for verifying the level of knowledge of employees of investment services providers relies on the services of the AMF and the Financial Skills Certification Board. The Certification Board is now under the chairmanship of Bernard Coupez.…
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