February 04, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

BitPay brings Bitcoin to online gaming company Wargaming

Bitcoin technology and payment processing company BitPay on Wednesday announced the addition of online gaming company Wargaming to its list of partners. Wargaming is known as the creator of numerous titles in strategy-based massively-multiplayer online (MMO) gaming, such as World of Tanks, World of Warships, and World of Warplanes. Thanks to the partnership with BitPay,…

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February 04, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

CME Group declares Q1 2016 dividend of $0.60 per share

International derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) on Wednesday announced a dividend of $0.60 per share for the first quarter of 2016. This dividend is 20% higher than the dividend o $0.50 per share for the fourth quarter of 2015 and for the first quarter of 2015. It will be payable on March 28, 2016, to…

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February 04, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Court restrains “futures trader” Roger Munro from operating financial services business in Australia

A follow-up to LeapRate's earlier report about the proceedings undertaken by the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) against unlicensed traders Dr Roger Gareth Munro and Mrs Kathleen Susan Munro. The Supreme Court of Queensland has ruled that Dr Roger Munro breached the Corporations Act by running a financial services business in Australia without holding the necessary…

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February 04, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

CFTC charges Oakmont Financial, Joseph Charles DiCrisci over illegal, off-exchange precious metals trading

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has once again shown its rigidity when it comes to following the the provision of the Dodd-Frank act that addresses retail commodity trading. The regulator announced on Wednesday that it filed a civil injunctive enforcement action in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida against…

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February 03, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

UK FCA reviews 1,108 financial promotions in Q3 2015

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has just published its latest Data Bulletin, which includes information about the activities of the regulator regarding financial promotions. The most recent numbers show that the FCA reviewed 1,108 financial promotions in the third quarter of 2015, that is, from July 1st to September 30th last year. Out of…

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February 03, 2016 BY Mike Fox

ESMA to cooperate with South African regulators on CCPs

The Financial Services Board (FSB) of South Africa today announced it established a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) with the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). This MoU establishes cooperation arrangements, including the exchange of information, regarding Central Counterparties (CCPs) which are established and authorized or recognized in South Africa, and which…

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February 03, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

OptionsCity rolls out new version of trading platform Metro

OptionsCity has just released a new version of its low-latency options trading platform, Metro 6.1. The upgraded solution offers improved efficiency of data processing for an enhanced user experience. In this version, the company implemented Volatility Curve Dimension for additional modeling functionality and a redesigned Order Ticket. In general, Metro 6.1 offers better server/client reliability…

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February 03, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Deutsche Börse launches new XDAXDAX index

The index includes full coverage of U.S. trading hours to help minimize overnight risk. Deutsche Börse has added the XDAXDAX index to its DAX index family. The new index will enable customers to use just one index as an underlying for their products that are linked to the performance of DAX before, during or after Xetra…

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February 03, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Moscow Exchange registers more than 95 thousand individual investment accounts

Among Moscow Exchange members, Sberbank (25, 670), Finam (23,755) and BCS (15,133) opened the most IIAs, MOEX data shows. Individuals have a choice of 80 companies when looking to open an IIA. Moscow Exchange (MOEX) today announced that as of February 1st, 2016 Russia's largest investment exchange had registered 95,020 individual investment accounts (IIAs) opened by…

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