More than a handful of Retail Forex brokers have a website which can be easily described by those dreaded two words: It sucks. Leverate's Yael Warman provides a few tips to improve your website's ability to create conversions, by focusing your efforts towards making minor but impactful changes. The worst thing (well at least one…
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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 My Money Solutions. My Money Solutions is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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Financial innovation firm R3 has announced the addition of China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), China’s official interbank market trading platform, to its consortium to design and apply distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies to global financial markets. Headquartered in Shanghai, CFETS provides a series of services covering issuance, trading, information and post-trade for cash and…
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Australia based research house Investment Trends has released its 2016 UK Leverage Trading Report, an in-depth analysis of UK traders and investors’ attitudes and investing habits based on a large-scale survey of more than 12,000 UK investors conducted both before and after the Brexit vote. Not surprising, perennial industry giant IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) remains…
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TMX Group (TSX: X) has marked the first trading day for four letter stock symbols on Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV), an industry initiative designed to offer Canadian issuers and applicants greater choice in how they are identified and also to provide interlisted issuers with the opportunity to be uniformly represented…
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Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…
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Moscow Exchange today announced trading volumes for October 2016. Total exchange trading volumes increased by 5.5% YoY to RUB 70.8 trln. The FX market cooled off both MoM and YoY. The Money Market posted the strongest growth, with volumes increasing by 59.4% YoY. Open interest on the Derivatives market grew 32.1% YoY to RUB 728.4 bln.…
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Innovative fintech companies in Australia and Ontario will be able to draw on support from the combined resources of their financial regulators as they seek to operate in the others’ market, under a new agreement. Under the agreement, signed in Toronto this week, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Ontario Securities Commission…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has presented the unaudited consolidated results of the Exchange for the nine months ended 30 September 2016. Here are some of the highlights: Revenue and overall financial performance remained steady in Q3 2016, compared to the prior quarter, with some pickup in volumes during September. Revenue and other…
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International derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME) has announced that October 2016 average daily volume (ADV) reached 13.1 million contracts per day, up 2% from October 2015. CME Group October 2016 electronic options volume averaged 1.5 million contracts per day, a rise of 7% versus October 2015. CME Group year-to-date 2016 ADV through October…
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