November 03, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hazelcast and Striim announce the launch of Hazelcast Striim Hot Cache

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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November 03, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

LendingCrowd receives full authorisation from the FCA

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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November 03, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA acts to improve competition in the current account market

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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November 03, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bats reports third quarter net income growth of 13%

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: New capital market initiatives
November 03, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Malaysia to be the first country in the ASEAN region to regulate P2P financing

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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gkfx trading
November 03, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

GKFX raises $8 million looking at expansion and retail forex acquisitions - LeapRate Exclusive

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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November 03, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Why your website sucks

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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November 03, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns on My Money Solutions firm

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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Corda Network announces Board of Directors
November 03, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) joins R3 distributed ledger consortium

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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