September 16, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

TOCOM and Nikkei add new leveraged and inverse indices

The Tokyo Commodity Exchange Inc. and Nikkei Inc. will add 10 new leveraged and inverse indices based on the Soybean, Corn and the others. They will be published from September 20, 2016. New indices: Nikkei-TOCOM Leveraged Index Nikkei-TOCOM Inverse Index Nikkei-TOCOM Leveraged Industrial Commodity Index Nikkei-TOCOM Inverse Industrial Commodity Index Nikkei-TOCOM Leveraged Agricultural Product &…

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September 16, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

FxPro adds former Saxo Bank UK Chairman Nick Beecroft to its UK BoD

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings with UK authorities that former Saxo Bank UK Chairman Nick Beecroft has joined the board of directors of FxPro UK, the FCA-regulated arm of global retail forex broker FxPro. Beecroft was Non-Executive Chairman at Saxo Bank UK for about six years, until last July, when we reported…

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September 16, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC cancels a suspended AFS licence after failure to lodge financial statements and auditor reports

ASIC has cancelled the Australian Financial Services (AFS) licence of Melbourne-based company Allegianz Pty Ltd for failing to lodge financial statements and auditor reports. Allegianz's AFS licence was suspended by ASIC for six months in March 2016 for failing to meet its obligations to lodge financial statements and auditor reports. The financial statements and auditor…

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September 16, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

TradersClub24 provides its SwissBox MT4 trading tool to retail forex brokers Musashi FX and Charles FX

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Switzerland-based Forex training and technologies provider TradersClub24 has signed agreements to provide its SwissBox MT4 trading tool to Germany-focused retail forex brokers Musashi FX and Charles FX. Musashi FX is the German brand of CySEC regulated retail forex broker GBE Brokers. Charles FX is similarly the German language division…

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September 16, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

SGX Index Edge to use S&P Global Market Intelligence’s Alpha Factor Library to develop quantitative

Singapore Exchange (SGX) and S&P Global Market Intelligence have announced a commercial relationship that will enable SGX Index Edge to use S&P Global Markets Intelligence’s Alpha Factor Library to develop new quantitative index models and smart beta indices across Asia-Pacific. As part of this agreement, SGX Index Edge has immediate access to the comprehensive research…

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September 16, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Barclays signs contracts with six fintech startups

Barclays Bank (NYSE:BCS) has signed contracts with six accelerator graduates participating in its accelerator programme in New York. The deeper engagement with Barclays comes as the ten graduates from the bank's second New York class present at a demo day to an audience of 500 banking executives and corporate partners. The 10 teams to emerge…

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September 16, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Reuters Video Archive to be made available through Reuters Media Express

Reuters has announced that Reuters Video Archive is now available direct from Reuters through Reuters Media Express, the premier platform that delivers thousands of multimedia stories per day to over 3,000 publishers in broadcast, digital and print. Reuters Video Archive is one of the most comprehensive collections of international news stories that have shaped the world we…

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September 16, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deputy Director and Deputy Chief Economist of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis to leave SEC after ten years of service

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that Jennifer Marietta-Westberg, Deputy Chief Economist and Deputy Director of the SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis, is planning to leave the agency after 10 years of public service. Dr. Marietta-Westberg joined the SEC as a Visiting Scholar in 2006. She became an Assistant Director in…

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