June 08, 2016 BY Mike Fox

TechFinancials invests $1.5M in APAC binary options joint venture

TechFinancials Inc (LON: TECH), a software developer that supplies binary option trading solutions to online brokers, announced the establishment of a joint venture with the owners of Optionfortune Trade Limited, a company registered in Hong Kong which would be responsible for running a B2C binary options trading platform focused on the Asia Pacific region. Under the…

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June 08, 2016 BY Mike Fox

FairFX expands its services into South Africa

Fairfx Group PLC (LON: FFX) a London based low-cost multi-currency payments service, has extended its international payments service into the domestic South African market through a tripartite agreement with Morgan West Ltd and Mercantile Bank. Services providing foreign exchange into South African Rand (ZAR) to send into South Africa are widely available. Converting ZAR into…

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June 08, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Exness volumes push higher MoM, rising 5% to $173 bln

Exness, a leading CySEC regulated Forex broker has published volume metrics for May 2016, with trading volumes rising 5% MoM to $173.9 bln from April's $165.6 bln. The annual comparison was down, with May 2015 volumes 20% higher than this year. Last year during this period, Exness recorded their highest volume months in company history with May 2015 seeing $217.6…

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June 08, 2016 BY Mike Fox

FXOpen organizes new demo trading contest, the “CFD Open”

ASIC and FCA regulated broker FXOpen has launched this week a free entrance demo competition called “CFD Open”. The contest is designed for traders who want to trade indices, oil and gas. Registration is now open to take part in the demo competition from June 13th to July 8th, 2016. CFD Open Facts and Figures: 1. contest dates: June…

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June 07, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Vinson Financials renounces CySEC CIF license

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) today announced that, on 23rd May 2016, Forex broker CIF Vinson Financial Ltd, which provided investment services via the domain vinsonfinancials.com, renounced its authorization pursuant to section 24(1)(b) of the Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law of 2007, as in force (the ‘Law’). Therefore, the authorization with Νumber 184/12 lapsed as from the abovementioned date. It is noted that, in accordance with section…

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June 07, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Akamai hit by SEC for bribing Chinese officials

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission today announced non-prosecution agreements (NPAs) with two unrelated companies that will forfeit ill-gotten gains connected to bribes paid to Chinese officials by foreign subsidiaries. Massachusetts-based cloud services and network optimization provider Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKAM) has agreed to pay $652,452 in disgorgement plus $19,433 in interest. According to the NPA,…

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