December 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns on clone firm of Totally Money

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Totally Money. 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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December 05, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Italy’s 'no vote’: a rising challenge for the ECB?

This article was written by Ipek Ozkardeskaya, Senior Market Analyst at FCA regulated broker London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG). Italian populists said the last word on Sunday. Italy’s constitutional referendum, which was also a confidence vote for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, has been rejected with 59%. Renzi resigned amid a heavy defeat. The euro…

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December 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

First Financial Bank partners with Fiserv to deliver advanced capabilities and drive commercial business growth

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ:FISV), a global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced that First Financial Bank in Bessemer, Alabama, has selected Fiserv as its new technology partner. Kyle Goodwin, executive vice president and CFO, First Financial Bank, commented: In working with the Fiserv team and speaking with other clients, we are confident that we have…

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December 05, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Is CySEC once again punishing the wrong people?

Continuing our series of different viewpoints of industry experts on the CySEC bonus ban, we present today's guest post courtesy of Yael Warman from Leverate. During the past year, CySec hasn’t been shy about becoming a stricter regulator and changing its image of a once-lax regulatory body for one of a reputable, don’t-mess-with-us regulator. We have…

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December 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

FXCM integrates with algo trading solutions provider QuantConnect

Forex Capital Markets LLC, (FXCM) the US entity of FXCM Inc. (NASDAQ:FXCM), a global online provider of foreign exchange (FX) trading and related services, announced today Live Trading Integration with QuantConnect, a cloud-based algorithmic trading platform for strategy creation, backtesting and deployment. Paired with FXCM's No Dealing Desk (NDD) execution, algo traders can run strategies…

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December 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Spanish regulator CNMV warns against online trading sites Solidarity Markets, Stockscall, ClickBanca and FB-One

Spanish regulator CNMV started this week with a list of whole four warnings against online trading sites. The names of the companies are: Solidarity Markets, as per https://solidarymarkets.com/ Stockscall, as per https://www.stockscall.com/ ClickBanca as per https://www.clickbanca.es/ and FB-One as per https://www.fb-one.com/en/ CNMV warns that the websites stated above are not authorised to provide the investment services…

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