Thomson Reuters to offer financial community exclusive, live U.S. election day news and commentary LeapRate

November 07, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters to offer financial community exclusive, live U.S. election day news and commentary

Business information giant Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) will host live news and commentary on the U.S. elections for Eikon Messenger users via its Global Markets Forum (GMF) as events unfold, offering the market direct access to senior Reuters editors and reporters. The Global Markets Forum is an innovative, cross-asset and cross-regional community, connecting senior global financial…

November 07, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

ICF to start the compensation payment process to the covered clients of Falcon Brokers Ltd.

Pursuant to a relevant decision of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC), the Investor Compensation Fund for IF Clients (ICF) has announced the commencement of the compensation payment process by the ICF to the covered clients of Falcon Brokers Ltd. LeapRate has already reported of Falcon Brokers losing its CIF license. The address of the…

November 07, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

How to put a face to your online business

How to imbue the human touch to an online business? Leverate's Yael Warman discusses. Everyone agrees that operating a brokerage online is more efficient, cost effective and has the means to provide excellent user satisfaction. However a significant drawback is that it is hard to imbue the human touch into your trading services, as brokers…

November 07, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA unveils successful sandbox firms on the second anniversary of Project Innovate

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has marked the second anniversary of Project Innovate by announcing the firms that were successful in their applications to begin testing in the first cohort of the regulatory sandbox. The regulatory sandbox is part of Project Innovate, an initiative kicked off in 2014 to provide innovators with support to navigate…

November 07, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

ANZ replaces CIO with Dimension Data cloud chief Gerard Florian

Commercial banking company Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited, commonly called ANZ (ASX:ANZ), has announced the appointment of Gerard Florian as Group Executive Technology reporting to Chief Executive Officer Shayne Elliott. Florian joins ANZ from Dimension Data where he was Chief Strategy Officer for the global Cloud Business Unit. Over the past five years,…

November 07, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Paysafe partners with Servicemax to provide integrated payment solutions for the field service industry

Digital payment solutions provider Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS) has announced a new agreement with cloud-based field service management solutions company ServiceMax to integrate payment solutions into ServiceMax’s Field Service Management (FSM) platform. The partnership enables ServiceMax to offer Paysafe’s secure online and mobile point of sale (mPOS) payment solutions to its field service customers worldwide.…

November 07, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

MOEX announces infrastructure migration to new data center

Moscow Exchange has successfully performed the final testing of all trading systems with the DataSpace1 data center operating as the primary DC and M1 data center as a disaster recovery site. From Monday, 7th November, all client-side systems and trading terminals should be configured to accept DataSpace1 as the primary DC and M1 as the…

November 07, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Exness maintains leverage and client margin levels leading up to the US election

Bucking the trend, CySEC and FCA regulated retail forex broker Exness has decided to maintain leverage offered to clients as well as margins required on new and existing trades. We've been reporting lately on a number of leading retail forex brokers' activity leading up to the US election, with most firms deciding to hike required…

November 07, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Former AxiTrader GM Quinn Perrott expands his TRAction trade reporting services firm to the UK

Financial services company TRAction Fintech has launched in the UK and Europe to assist brokers with reporting trades under the EMIR and MiFID legislation. When asked how TRAction Fintech planned to differentiate themselves in the competitive UK marketplace Quinn Perrott, General Manager, responded: There are 2 key areas where we think TRAction Fintech really distinguishes itself…

November 07, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

CFI Markets raises required margins before US election

CySEC regulated retail forex broker CFI Markets has decided to lower leverage and hike required margin requirements leading up to the US election this Tuesday, November 8. CFI sent out the following message to clients. Dear Valued Client, The US Presidential Elections are coming up soon and volatility in the markets is expected to spike…