December 27, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Paysafe Group begins share buyback with £1.5 million of purchases

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that payments services company Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS) has spent £1.5 million in the first week of its recently announced £100 million share buyback program. Paysafe shares traded down by as much as 38% earlier this month following the release of a damaging report by little-known short…

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December 27, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

CBOE Holdings announces planned changes in Board leadership roles at close of transaction with Bats Global Markets

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) announced that William J. Brodsky, Susan M. Phillips and R. Eden Martin, among CBOE Holdings’ longest serving Board members, have notified CBOE Holdings that they intend to step down from CBOE Holdings’ Board of Directors upon the closing of the CBOE Holdings acquisition of Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats: BATS).…

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December 23, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns on clone firm of Meridian Bond Limited

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Meridian Bond Limited. 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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December 23, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC adds DFRF Enterprises LLC to its alert list

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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December 23, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Swissquote expands its Executive Management, appoints two more long-term directors

In May 2016, the Swiss online brokerage leader Swissquote Group Holding SA (SWX:SQN)'s Board of Directors announced at the Annual General Meeting that it intended to expand the company’s Executive Management. In order to adapt the organization to suit the development of its business activities, the Board of Directors decided to increase the number of Executive…

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December 23, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

SFC announces extension of Leveraged and Inverse Products' eligible indices

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) just announced that is extending the eligible indices of Leveraged and Inverse Products (L&I Products) listed in Hong Kong to include Hong Kong equity indices and other non-equity indices. Previously, L&I Product providers were limited to issuing products on non-Hong Kong, non-Mainland foreign equity indices. There are currently 12…

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