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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October 19, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

SFC welcomes re-appointment of Non-Executive Director

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has welcomed the re-appointment by the Financial Secretary of Dr Kelvin Wong Tin-yau as a Non-Executive Director for a term of two years with effect from 20 October 2016. Dr Wong has first been appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the SFC on 20 October 2012. Dr Wong has provided the…

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October 19, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

UK bookmakers now calling a Clinton victory a 'done deal'

With now less than three weeks to go, we thought that we would take a quick look at what UK oddsmakers and bookmakers are saying the 'real' odds are right now of either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump winning the US Presidential election on November 8. Unlike polls, oddsmakers' numbers aren't estimates or polled people saying…

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