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

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…

December 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Forex sports sponsorship: Plus500 shirts deal with Australian rugby squad Brumbies

Plus500 Ltd said it has signed a sponsorship deal with Australian rugby union team Brumbies to be its official sponsor for the 2017/18 season. Under the deal, Plus500 said its logo will feature on the front of both the home and away Brumbies shirts for national and overseas matches. Plus500 said it will also be…

December 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deutsche Bank strengthens innovation team, appoints Elly Hardwick and Philip Milne

Deutsche Bank has announced that it has strengthened its innovation team with two new appointments. Elly Hardwick will become Head of Innovation and Philip Milne has been appointed as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Innovation. Hardwick will join the bank in early December to lead the bank’s innovation activities and manage the Deutsche Bank Labs…

December 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

GMO Click reports 64.6% MoM rise in November's OTC FX Trading Value

GMO Click Holdings, Inc. (TYO:7177), the parent of Japanese online trading giant GMO Click Securities, has released its monthly preliminary report of its subsidiaries for November 2016. Equity Trading Value rose with 20.82% MoM last month. The total Equity Trading Value on a daily average basis was also with a quite good score of ¥88,909…

December 05, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Ayondo raises £2.7 million ahead of planned Singapore IPO - LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via a series of regulatory filings that FCA regulated social trading and CFDs broker Ayondo has raised more than £2.7 million (USD $3.4 million) ahead of the company's planned IPO on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). Ayondo raised the money from existing shareholders, in a series of transactions between September 30 and November…

December 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters partners with BestX to offer independent transaction cost analysis service to FX Buy-Side

Business information giant Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) just announced that is working with FX analytics specialist BestX to enable buy-side participants using Thomson Reuters FXall and FX Trading to streamline analysis of transaction costs, helping them define, achieve and demonstrate best execution. Through the partnership, Thomson Reuters will offer seamless connectivity to the independent transaction…

December 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hackers target Russian Central Bank in $45 million heist

The Russian Central Bank recently reported about a breach that occurred earlier this year. According to Forbes, hackers have attempted to steal a total of $45 million from a multitude of accounts using spoofed credentials for one of the Bank's customers. Their plans were partly foiled by the bank, which was able to reduce the…

December 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Chief Economist and Division of Economic and Risk Analysis Director Mark Flannery to leave SEC

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that Chief Economist and Division of Economic and Risk Analysis (DERA) Director Mark J. Flannery will leave the agency by the end of the month. He will return to his position as a finance professor at the University of Florida’s Graduate School of Business Administration. Dr. Flannery has…

ESMA on CFDs trading restrictions by Germany, Malta and Poland: Justified and proportionate measures

December 05, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Will Italy referendum and Renzi resignation send the EURUSD down to parity?

Markets now fear that the economic reform Italy needs has just become much harder.

Monex teams up with Shizuoka Bank to launch financial instruments intermediary services

December 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Monex reports 30% rise in Global Daily Average Revenue Trades in November

The time has come for Japanese forex broker Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698) to report its monthly business metrics of its subsidiaries in November 2016. The number of Global Daily Average Revenue Trades DARTs made a 29.95% MoM to 307,856. Number of total accounts was also a bit up last month to 1,674,318. FX Trading (OTC FX)…