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October 10, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Canadian regulator OSC warns against unregulated retail forex broker CFD Capital Markets / Apex One Trading

Continuing a string of warnings against forex and binary options brokers targeting traders in Canada, Canadian securities regulator the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has issued a warning to investors regarding CFD Capital Markets (at website cfdcapmkt.com), and Apex One Trading  (at website apexonetg.com). The OSC actually issued two separate warnings - possibly not realizing that CFD Capital Markets…

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October 10, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

SafeCharge adds former PayPal and Visa executives to its Board of Directors

Payments services and technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) has announced the appointment of Robert Caplehorn and Jeremy Nicholds as non-executive directors of the Company and the concurrent retirement of Ed Warner from the Board. Mr Caplehorn, who has been previously Vice-President of Legal Global Operations for Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL), is a dual qualified lawyer…

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October 10, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC permanently bans former Tasmanian financial adviser

ASIC has permanently banned former Hobart financial adviser Troy Andrew Rodney Williams from providing financial services. Mr Williams, of Sandy Bay, is a director and former financial adviser at Hobart financial planning business, Directions Wealth Management. Mr Williams was authorised to provide financial advice as a representative of Financial Services Partners Pty Ltd (FSP), a…

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October 10, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Why is the FTSE 100 pushing record highs as the GBP drops?

anyoption analyst Joshua Rodriguez takes a look at the different directions UK equities and the UK's currency are going, especially in light of last week's British Pound flash crash. For more of Joshua's research see the anyoption blog. [divide] The FTSE 100 (INDEXFTSE:UKX) had an incredible week last week, and for good reasons. Concerns with regard…

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October 09, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Former ADS Securities analyst Nour Eldeen Al-Hammoury gets new TV gig at Sky News Arabia

Sky News Arabia has announced the appointment of Nour Eldeen Al-Hammoury, a leading independent market strategist and analyst. Al-Hammoury joins the broadcaster as a Business Analyst and Presenter, providing daily segments and offering in-depth analysis of the latest regional and global economic developments. Prior to joining Sky News Arabia, Al-Hammoury spent over ten years as…

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October 09, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex Industry Week Review: Belgium FX ban backfires, ZuluTrade exits US, LMAX layoffs, and lots more…

In a week which will be mostly remembered for the British Pound Flash Crash, Forex Industry News at LeapRate seemed to center on one of the underlying themes driving the sector in recent months - over-reaction of regulators. There certainly is need to regulate the online trading sector. However regulators demonstrated once again that when they…

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October 07, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Exness September FX volumes rise 11% MoM to $218 billion

Continuing a parade of healthy FX trading volumes we are seeing in September across leading retail and institutional Forex platforms, Retail Forex broker Exness has reported an 11% increase in September results, to $218 billion. The $218 billion figure makes September Exness' second best month of 2016, after record monthly volumes of $253 billion recorded in July…

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October 07, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

innogy SE IPO on Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Deutsche Börse has announced that innogy SE (ISIN: DE000A2AADD2) was listed in the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange today. The listing involved admission to trading of around 555.6 million shares in total. The total issue volume was approximately €5.0 billion, making it the largest IPO this year. Carsten Kengeter, CEO of Deutsche Börse, commented:…

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October 07, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

EEX achieves new daily records in Italian and Spanish Power Futures

Yesterday, the European Energy Exchange (EEX) has announced that it achieved its highest trading volumes in Power Futures for Italy and Spain since the launch of these products. In Italian Power Futures, a volume of 6,864,868 MWh was traded and registered for clearing. The previous record for the Italian Power Futures was the volume of 6,183,005 TWh…

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