November 29, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Intercontinental Exchange announces appointment of Lee Yi Shyan as Chairman of ICE Futures Singapore and ICE Clear Singapore

Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE) has just announced the appointment of Lee Yi Shyan as Chairman of ICE Futures Singapore (IFSG) and ICE Clear Singapore (ICSG) effective as of November 24 2016. Mr. Lee is a Member of Parliament in Singapore and previously served in the Singapore government over a ten year period as a Senior Minister of…

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November 29, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Binary options broker EZTrader.com raising $11 million from Yorkville Advisors - LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned from regulatory filings that binary options brokerage group EZTD Inc (OTCMKTS:EZTD), has received an $11 million investment commitment from alternative investment firm Yorkville Advisors Global, LLC. EZTD operates binary options brands EZTrader (at website eztrader.com), Global Option (globaloption.com) and EZinvest (ezinvest.com). EZTD has sustained large losses this year totaling more than $11 million…

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November 29, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Invast Global's PurePrime partners with XTX Markets for FX liquidity

Leading non-bank Prime Services brokerage Invast Global and leading non-bank market maker XTX Markets have announced a partnership whereby Invast Global clients will now be able to access XTX Markets’ liquidity via the Invast Global multi-asset prime services facility, PurePrime. The PurePrime-XTX Markets partnership illustrates the rapidly growing stature of non-bank participants in the financial markets, as the banks continue…

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November 29, 2016 BY admin

Saxo Bank taps Fix8Pro for global market connectivity

Global broker Saxo Bank just announced they will use Fix8Pro as part of a new high performance market connectivity engine. Fix8 Market Tech, founded in 2013 also offers Fix8 – a free, open-source framework that developers can use to build FIX applications using any FIX version, utilizing built-in testing and performance-enhancing features. Saxo Bank Chief…

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November 28, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns on SSW Market Making GmbH 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 SSW Market Making GmbH. SSW Market Making GmbH is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying…

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November 28, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns on clone firm of DVP Consulting GmbH

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm DVP Consulting GmbH. 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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November 28, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Joint Deutsche Bundesbank and Deutsche Börse present a blockchain prototype

Today the Deutsche Bundesbank and Deutsche Börse have jointly presented a functional prototype for the blockchain technology-based settlement of securities. The innovative prototype is designed to provide the technical functionality for the settlement of securities in delivery-versus-payment mode for centrally-issued digital coins, as well as the pure transfer of either digital coins or digital securities…

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