April 06, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Earthport to bolster Ria Money Transfer's global payment services

Cross-border payment network Earthport on Tuesday announced that it has entered into an agreement with international money transfer company Ria Money Transfer. Earthport offers Ria access to a global payment network which complements Ria’s existing bank deposit services. Earthport’s global payment solution secures complete transparency into the transaction, providing customers and merchants with the ability…

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April 06, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Dukascopy updates Swiss Forex Trader app for iOS

Swiss Forex broker Dukascopy has recently released an updated version of its Swiss Forex Trader application for iOS devices. The enhancements in the latest version (4.1) of the solution focus on languages lineup. In particular, the new version of the app: Introduces Multilanguage news; Adds Italian language; Adds Romanian language. The Swiss Forex Trader app…

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April 06, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Fidessa partners with Alpha Omega to provide one-stop-shop for post-trade

Fidessa Group plc (LON:FDSA) today announces a partnership agreement with Alpha Omega that will leverage Fidessa's post-trade Affirmation Management Service (AMS). The utility offers alternative low-cost affirmation processing to Fidessa's community of buy-sides and sell-sides. Alpha Omega, a provider of FIX-based solutions for affirmation processing through its comprehensive FIXAffirm post-trade service, has recognised the scale…

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April 06, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

TradAir NOW released as real-time trade analytic engine to drive broker platform profitability

eFX trading solutions provider TradAir has launched its latest product, a real-time trade analytic engine called TradAir NOW. TradAir NOW drives platform profitability for forex brokers by empowering firms to more competitively price, and profitably hedge FX flows. It leverages Google BigQuery, provides massive performance and scalability. With TradAir NOW, banks and brokers are able to more competitively price…

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April 06, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Barclays and Barclaycard introduce Apple Pay to their UK customers

Less than a year after LeapRate reported about Apple Pay entering the UK market, Barclays PLC (LON:BARC) and Barclaycard announced the availability of the service to their UK clients. Effective April 5, 2016, clients of Barclays and Barclaycard can use Apple Pay to pay at the hundreds of thousands of locations across the UK that accept…

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April 06, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Binary Options Scam Watch – MSC warns against Iseebinary.com

The fraud prevention month in Canada just ended but investment scams continue to get new victims, with the latest example provided from Manitoba, where an elderly widow invested all of her savings in an unauthorized binary options firm. The unlicensed entity in question is Iseebinary.com and the woman invested by wiring money to a bank account…

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April 05, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Ally Financial acquires TradeKing for $275 million

Confirming LeapRate's earlier report about TradeKing being for sale, the company announced today the signing of an acquisition agreement with Ally Financial Inc (NYSE:ALLY). Under the agreement, Ally Financial Inc will acquire an online broker/dealer, a digital portfolio management platform, and educational content and social collaboration channels. Ally is paying $275 million, subject to certain purchase…

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April 05, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Steve McMurray joins BGC Partners as CFO

BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ:BGCP) has just announced that effective April 4, 2016, Steve McMurray became its Chief Financial Officer. Mr McMurray, who joins BGC Partners from insurance provider Amlin, succeeds Graham Sadler, who announced his intention to retire from BGC in February 2015. In his new role, Mr McMurray will be in charge of BGC's…

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