January 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns on Peyton Private Bank firm

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 Peyton Private Bank. Peyton Private Bank is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…

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January 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Gas trading platform PEGAS with record results in 2016

PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, recorded its best annual traded volume with a total of 1,733.3 TWh traded in 2016. This represents an increase of 69% compared to 2015 (1,024.8 TWh). This development was achieved across all PEGAS market segments. Dr. Egbert Laege , CEO of Powernext, commented: The year 2016…

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January 16, 2017 BY admin

India's new international exchange at GIFT city successfully begins live trading

GIFT (Gujarat International Finance Tec-City), India’s first International Financial Services Centre officially commenced trading today, Monday 16 January 2017. After years of conceptualization and development, the exchange is now off and running. Trading will be done in equity, currency and interest rate derivative markets. The first trade which took place was between Globe IFSC and Edelweiss…

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January 16, 2017 BY admin

NetDania updates iOS platforms and adds support to forex broker STO

A couple news items surrounding Danish based platform, data and charting provider NetDania were just recently announced. Firstly, today the company announced upgrades to its mobile iOS platforms for iPhone for iPad. Secondly, the NetDania platform now supports retail forex brokerage STO, you can read about the details below. New features for iOS A mathematical…

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January 16, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

MOEX announces malfunction on its Exchange Equity & Bond Market

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) reported that at approximately 14:30 MSK on 16 January 2017, the Exchange's IT team observed inaccurate operation of software used to produce order tables for one of the repo trading modes. The malfunction could potentially result in errors in accepting orders from trading participants in other trading modes of the Equity &…

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SGX announces trading volumes
January 16, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SGX welcomes Samurai 2K Aerosol to Catalist

Singapore Exchange (SGX) just announced that has welcomed Samurai 2K Aerosol Limited to Catalist under the stock code 1C3. Established in 1997, Samurai 2K is a Malaysia-based aerosol coating specialist with a focus on high performance coating solutions for the automotive refinishing and refurbishing industry. The company manufactures, distributes and markets its products under its…

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Bank of China (UK) Limited joins LCH’s SwapClear
January 16, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CFTC permits LCH.Clearnet portfolio margining of customer positions in futures, foreign futures, and cleared swaps

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC ) issued an order to LCH.Clearnet Limited, a CFTC-registered derivatives clearing organization. The order was issued in response to a petition filed by LCH. The order permits LCH and its clearing members that are registered futures commission merchants to: commingle in an account subject to Section 4d(f) (a…

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January 16, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

How to use reviews and testimonials to enhance your website’s SEO

Why are reviews, testimonials, and other user generated content (UGC) important to website owners? Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate, explains. Google algorithms are becoming increasingly sophisticated. They’re not just analyzing what you have to say about yourself, but what others have to say about you as well. Reviews and testimonials form an important part…

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