June 29, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Deutsche Borse to provide trading platform IT infrastructure for private bank Donner & Reuschel

Frankfurt-based markets operator Deutsche Börse has announced that its Deutsche Börse Managed Services unit will be providing the IT infrastructure for the trading platform of German private bank Donner & Reuschel. These services enable a seamless connection to the trading platforms Xetra and Eurex. The Managed Services form part of Deutsche Börse’s Infrastructure Services offer, which…

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June 29, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

CySEC to set new rules for use of Liquidity Providers and Market Makers

Cyprus financial regulator CySEC has issued a consultation paper regarding new proposed rules governing the use of Liquidity Providers and Market Makers by regulated brokers on the island. The new rules would still allow Retail Forex brokers on the island to have liquidity and market making relationships with entities outside the country and outside the…

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June 29, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Latest FCA regulated retail forex broker to launch: BlackPearlFX

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that a new FCA regulated Retail FX broker just launched operations under the fairly unique brand name of BlackPearlFX, a trading name of Black Pearl Securities Limited. The broker also seems to have social trading in mind. We are pleased to bring LeapRate readers an exclusive interview with BlackPearlFX co-founder and…

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June 29, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

R3 blockchain consortium continues Latin America expansion adding Brazil's Banco Bradesco

Banco Bradesco, one of the biggest banking and financial services companies in Brazil, has joined financial innovation firm R3’s partnership to design and apply distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies to global financial markets. We had earlier reported that Itaú Unibanco, the largest private sector bank in Latin America, became the first Latin America bank to…

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June 29, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

BSO announces plans for FX cloud service adding Equinix LD4, NY4 and TY3

Ethernet network, cloud and hosting provider BSO has announced plans to add Financial Cloud to its service portfolio to provide a unique and fully-integrated low latency network and cloud offering specifically engineered for the global financial community. The build will include the key FX marketplaces of London, New York and Tokyo with a presence in Equinix LD4,…

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June 28, 2016 BY Mike Fox

China Securities Regulatory Commission signs MoU with the Bank of Russia

It was just officially announced that on  June 25, 2016, Mr. Liu Shiyu, Chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and Mr. Sergey Shvetsov, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding cooperation on financial and capital markets in Beijing. This MOU substitutes the MOU between China Securities…

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