BitPay, a Bitcoin payments solutions company with offices in Atlanta, San Francisco and Amsterdam today launched the BitPay Visa Card, a debit card available to consumers across America in all 50 states. The BitPay Card can be loaded from any bitcoin wallet. There are zero fees on bitcoin top-ups, and you can load up to $10,000 per day in…
Read moreInternational payments services provider OFX, or Ozforex Group Ltd (ASX:OFX), today announces the launch of a 24/7 service, meaning that its customers will be able to transact on weekends too. The move is in line with the corporate strategy that envisages increased focus on customers. The service will enable customers to transact online, speak to…
Read moreThe management of Dukascopy Bank SA, a Swiss bank and a securities dealer, reiterated its commitment to expanding the business via the addition of new licensed brokerage companies. Veronika and Andrey Duka, co-Chief Executive Officers of Dukascopy, voiced this commitment in Dukascopy's annual financial report for 2015. This is in line with previous comments made…
Read moreAperture Group, LLC, the owner of OptionsHouse, which last month got a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM) registration, announces today that Lance Braunstein has been appointed as Chief Information Officer. Mr. Braunstein joins Aperture Group from Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. where he served as Managing Director, Global Head of Investment Banking Technology. Prior to his nearly…
Read moreA follow-up to LeapRate's earlier report about the investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) of the acquisition of Trayport by Intercontinental Exchange Inc (NYSE:ICE)... Last week, the CMA said that it would refer the merger for an in-depth investigation unless Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) offered necessary undertakings to address the CMA’s competition concerns. The regulator…
Read moreAs was reported on LeapRate back in April, retail forex broker and Forex.com operator Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) issued a notice that its just-released 10-K report and annual financial statements for 2015 should no longer be relied upon, due to errors in the manner in which the Company accounted for income taxes, as well as…
Read moreInternational derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has just published its volumes metrics for April 2016, with Forex volumes continuing the downward trend exhibited in March 2016. CME Group reported FX average daily volume (ADV) of 771,000 contracts for April 2016, a reading that is 15.5% down from the reading of 912,000 contracts reported for…
Read moreIn line with LeapRate's earlier report about the plans of Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX:S68) to list MSCI China Free Index (SM) futures and options contracts, the Exchange today announced the official launch of these products. The SGX MSCI China contracts have also been certified by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), enabling US investors to directly…
Read moreTriOptima, the post trade infrastructure provider owned by interdealer broker ICAP plc (LON:IAP), has announced that its triResolve Repository Reconciliation service is actively reconciling data reported to The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)’s Global Trade Repository (GTR) by institutions regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)…
Read moreTriOptima, the post trade infrastructure provider owned by interdealer broker ICAP plc (LON:IAP), has announced that its triResolve Repository Reconciliation service is actively reconciling data reported to The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC)’s Global Trade Repository (GTR) by institutions regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC)…
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