It was just announced today from Swiss Forex Bank and Marketplace Dukascopy they have expanded their range of FX instruments. Available now Euro to Russian Ruble (EUR/RUB) has been added on live trading platforms. Maximum leverage on EUR/RUB is set to 1:10. The new currency pair is available only for self traders' accounts.
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Financial technology provider Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) has announced a new suite of technology driven solutions to help the investment community solve several of the most pressing challenges associated with the upcoming U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Conflict of Interest Rule. The new offerings - DOL Fiduciary Solutions, DOL Customer Communications, and DOL Compliance…
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Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global provider of financial services technology solutions, and next-generation endpoint protection company CrowdStrike have announced an agreement to add CrowdStrike’s SaaS-based endpoint protection technology to the multi-layered SentrySM Cyber Security offerings from Fiserv. With CrowdStrike Falcon, Fiserv clients can prevent, detect, and respond to malicious cyber threats in real-time, helping customers…
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Hazelcast, the global open source in-memory data grid (IMDG), and Striim, provider of end-to-end, real-time data integration and streaming analytics platform, have announced the launch of Hazelcast Striim Hot Cache. This integration enables real-time, push-based propagation of changes from the database to the cache. For organizations that manage high volumes of data, Hazelcast Striim Hot…
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LendingCrowd, UK’s alternative finance lenders to the SME market, has received full authorisation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) - making it the UK’s second P2P platform and first P2P lender to SMEs to move from interim to full authorisation status. Effective as of 1st November 2016, authorisation translates to LendingCrowd meeting the stipulated “rigorous…
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today announced that it will take action to improve competition in the current account market. This follows a series of recommendations which were proposed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) as part of its investigation into retail banking. Christopher Woolard, Executive Director of Strategy and Competition at the…
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Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats: BATS), a global exchange operator and provider of market data and other financial markets services, has reported net income of $28.5 million and adjusted earnings of $35.3 million for the third quarter ended September 30, 2016. Net income increased 13% and adjusted earnings rose 17% compared to the same period…
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Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) has introduced six registered Peer-to-Peer (P2P) financing platform operators in Malaysia to widen funding avenues for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The six registered operators are B2B FinPAL, Ethis Kapital, FundedByMe Malaysia, ManagePay Services, Modalku Ventures and Peoplender. They are expected to be fully operational in 2017. This makes Malaysia the…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated Retail Forex and CFDs broker GKFX has raised £6.54 million (USD $8 million) in a series of transactions during the months of September and October. The money, most of which was formally raised late last week, was invested into GKFX by controlling shareholder Kasim Garipoglu, a 31-year-old Turkish investor…
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The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEX) has placed Bel Global Resources Holdings Limited into the third delisting stage today. If no viable resumption proposal is received by the end of the third delisting stage (i.e. 2 May 2017), the company’s listing will be cancelled. Trading of the company's shares was suspended on 4 July…
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