UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the firm Capital Value Brokers. Capital Value Brokers is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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This article is written by Konstantin Rabin, CEO at Forex Library. The latest Payment Service Directive, which will become fully effective with the beginning of next year, is impatiently awaited by third parties in the EU’s financial sector. Payment providers, online lenders, innovative banks and fintech startups – they all want to finally benefit from…
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Breaking Forex News.... Forex and Binary Options convergence continues. Online trading platform providers Leverate and Tradologic have announced a partnership, whereby Leverate's Forex and CFDs brokerage platform solutions will be offered to Tradologic clients. Tradologic is one of the leading providers of binary options platforms to white label operators and brokers. However the binary options…
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The volume of listed corporate bonds on Nasdaq’s Nordic markets grew to a new all-time high during 2016. At the end of last year, the total value of listed corporate bonds on Nasdaq Nordic’s main markets was 65.8 billion euros, an increase of 4.8% since 2015 and 54% since 2011. A large portion of the…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Cash Float. 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 to…
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LeapRate Exclusive Interview... We are pleased to speak today with Graeme Watkins, CEO of FCA regulated retail forex and CFDs broker Valutrades. An LCG veteran, Mr. Watkins joined Valutrades just over a year ago and has helped steer a recapitalization at Valutrades and launch of a new website. With big plans for the future. Valutrades…
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This article is written by freelance writer Jason Haze. Our world has never been more connected, or more globalized, all thanks to a little invention called, the internet. Having unlimited and easy access to the web has truly changed the way we receive information, the way that we connect with each other, and how we can…
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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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ASIC just announced that Peter Alan Gregg, the previous Chief Financial Officer of Leighton Holdings Limited (now CIMIC Group Limited), has been charged with two counts of falsifying company documents in 2011. Mr Gregg is due to appear in the Downing Centre Local Court in Sydney on 31 January 2017. This matter is being prosecuted…
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Monex Group Inc. (TYO:8698) today reported its monthly business metrics of its subsidiaries in December 2016. The number of Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs) was 269,289 in December - slightly down with -12.5% from the previous month. The number of total accounts by the end of the month was 1,679,863 - a tiny rise from November's…
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