After London Stock Exchange shareholders last week gave their nod of approval to the LSE's merger with Frankfurt-based Deutsche Borse, this week's vote by the other side of the transaction might be made a little bit easier. Deutsche Börse AG has announced that it is evaluating lowering the minimum acceptance threshold for the deal, technically…
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Canadian securities regulator the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has issued a warning to investors regarding binary options broker BigOption (at website bigoption.com), operated by Wirestech Limited. Most of warnings of this type involved unauthorized advertising to or contact with retail investors in Canada by unlicensed brokers, and this one is no different. According to the…
Read moreKorea's number one state owned bank, Korea Development Bank (KDB) made some history as announced first by the Korea Times. The bank became the first Korean lender qualified to raise yuan offshore to invest in onshore capital markets in China, the policy bank said Sunday. KDB per the Korea Times says it wants to invest…
Read moreForex Industry News this week was again headlined by several stories seen exclusively on LeapRate (some of which were later copied on other blogs). There was definitely a UK focus to our coverage this week. LeapRate broke the news of FCA and ASIC regulated retail forex broker ThinkForex rebranding its operations to ThinkMarkets, including the launch of a…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive… LeapRate has learned from regulatory filings made by payments services and technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) that the company has recently bought back 500,000 of its own shares on the open market. The shares were purchased at an average price of £1.90, for a total cost to SafeCharge of £900,000 (before…
Read morePlaytech (LSE: PTEC) has just announced the appointment of Claire Milne as an independent Non-Executive Director with immediate effect. Milne will join Playtech's Remuneration Committee, Risk & Compliance Committee, Audit Committee, and Nominations Committee. Claire Milne joins the Board as a recognised industry expert in eGaming and technology law and regulation, with 20 years' experience advising gaming…
Read moreRich Miner has announced that he is leaving GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) to helm a Google education project. GV has not commented whether this project would be for-profit or not. Miner, who has also not given any details on the project yet, has shared in the past that it was too hard to…
Read moreThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is seeking input on which areas should be considered as part of its upcoming review of the rules surrounding both investment-based and loan-based crowdfunding. In 2015 an estimated £2.7 billion was invested on regulated crowdfunding platforms, up from £500 million in 2013, with more than 100 platforms either operating in…
Read moreBritish consumers saw their confidence in the UK's economy fall at the sharpest rate in almost 22 years after the vote to leave the European Union. According to latest market research from Gfk, consumer confidence in the UK fell by 8 points to minus 9, a plunge not seen since December 1994. The Gfk survey…
Read moreDiscipline, managing a healthy work-life balance, and progress tracking are just some of the secrets of successful traders.
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