December 17, 2015 BY Mike Fox

CMC Markets bolsters its board ahead of planned IPO

CMC adds veteran directors Malcolm McCaig and Manjit Wolstenholme to its board. Is an IPO looming? Reports filed today within the UK Companies House registry show that CMC Markets, the UK FCA regulated CFD and spread betting provider has officially appointed two new financial vets in Malcolm McCaid and Majit Wolstenholme to their board of directors. CMC has made their IPO…

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December 17, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

IG Group makes Signal Centre available on mobile apps

Leading provider of online trading services IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) has earlier this week released an update to its IG Trading application for iOS-based mobile devices. The latest version (5.7.112) of the solution is remarkable for the fact that it now offers free technical analysis on the go via Signal Centre. Directly from two…

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December 17, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Build 1240 of MT5 platform offers faster operation

MetaQuotes Software, the developer of the popular MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5) platforms, today announced the release of an update to MT5. The enhancements in build 1240 are various but the main ones seem to concern accelerated operations of the terminal. Terminal MT5 now offers accelerated update of the list of open orders…

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December 17, 2015 BY Mike Fox

FXStat brand brokerage OneTrade adds partner program

OneTrade, the FCA regulated financial derivatives broker under Reference Number 537787 which launched officially in Q2 of 2015 has now launched and added a partner program suited for affiliates and introducing brokers. OneTrade is the brand name and broker arm of the company FXStat, the popular social trading and trade analytics platform which now even offers a FX liquidity…

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December 17, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

R3’s distributed ledger initiative boasts 42 bank members

Financial innovation company R3 announced today that it has concluded its distributed ledger bank membership round with the addition of 12 new banks, thus taking the total number of such members to 42. Following its September launch, the company has registered significant interest in the consortium from financial services companies around the world. Recently, LeapRate…

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December 17, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Swiss regulator issues six industry bans against UBS managers, traders for FX manipulation

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) today announced that has issued industry bans of between one and five years against six managers and traders formally employed in the foreign exchange and precious metals business of UBS AG (SWX:UBSN). The watchdog concluded that the six individuals were responsible for the breaches of regulation at UBS…

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December 17, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

BitPay expands in Asia via partnership with GASH Point

Bitcoin technology and payment processing company BitPay on Wednesday announced a partnership with GASH Point, a gaming payment brand owned by Taiwanese digital media giant Gamania. GASH Point is a reloadable wallet and prepaid card for online gaming purchases. The wallet is already used by GASH's 10 million clients in Asia and powers more than…

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December 17, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Redline Trading Solutions now supports TOCOM

Provider of market data and order execution systems for automated trading Redline Trading Solutions today announced support for futures trading on the Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM). Market data from TOCOM’s trading system is now made available through Redline’s InRush accelerated ticker plant at ultra-low latency speeds. Automated derivative trading strategies receive insights from more timely…

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December 17, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Adgorithms expects earnings in Q4 2015 to be below expectations

Israeli advertising software developer Adgorithms Ltd (LON:ADGO), which had its public listing on AIM in June this year, today provided a trading update for the fourth quarter of 2015. In tune with a previous downbeat forecast for full-year earnings, the company today said that EBITDA margin in the final quarter of the year will be…

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