October 20, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group FX Futures ADV grows 57% MoM

International derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has announced September's overview of FX futures and options. Here are some of the highlights: FX Futures September 2016 FX Futures ADV of 904,263 ($88.1 billion notional) FX Futures ADV grew 57% from August and is up 3% compared to September 2015 Volume growth trend in emerging market…

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October 20, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

PineByte updates FX Junction social trading website

FinTech company PineByte has released its new social trading website, FX Junction. The open social trading network, FX Junction is now mobile friendly and offers many new features to engage its members to easily communicate with each other, analyze and learn from the performance of themselves and others with the goal to make better trading…

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October 20, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC adds Dukes Copy Limited to its alert list

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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October 20, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Social trading platform Collective2 claims to have passed $50 million in investor capital

Social and copy trading platform Collective2 has announced that it has surpassed $50 million dollars in investor capital linked to strategies on the platform. The increase represents a gain of over 30% in assets-following-strategies (AFS) from the prior quarter. The comapny stated that the growth has come from both traditional accounts and the recent introduction of…

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October 20, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Central Option gets yet another warning, this time from Swiss regulator FINMA

After already getting several warnings from different regulators, such as the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) and Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), binary options broker Central Option got another warning, this time from the Swiss regulator FINMA. Although this latest warning's got a long way to go to reach the…

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October 19, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns on clone firm of Corpserv

The UK Financial Conduct Authority has put out details of the cloned firm Corpserv. 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 to scam people…

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October 19, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

CME Group collaborates with Big Data Apps specialist TickSmith to improve access to historical data

International derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has announced that it has signed an agreement with Montreal based TickSmith, a leader in Big Data applications for capital markets, to improve access to CME Group's historical data by implementing TickSmith's TickVault to power CME DataMine. With more than 450 Terabytes of historical market data, some of…

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