December 01, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

SafeCharge's CFO Ali Khwaja resigns from Board

SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH), the international provider of electronic payments services, technologies and risk management solutions to the online trading and gaming industry, today announced a set of Board changes. Ali Khwaja, Chief Financial Officer, has submitted his resignation from his position on the Board. Tim Mickley, former Chief Financial Officer and current Business…

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December 01, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Nadex issues advisory notice regarding third party services

North American Derivatives Exchange (Nadex), part of IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG), has addressed the issue of its Members making use of third party services to assist with their trading experience on the Exchange. Nadex says that in recent weeks it has received inquiries from various Members regarding the use of third party services such…

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December 01, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

TFX registers 20.2% MoM drop in Forex volumes in November 2015

Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has just posted its operating metrics for November 2015, with the numbers showing a continued decline in trading activity after slow September and October 2015. TFX saw Click 365 total trading volumes, that is, the volume of Exchange FX Margin contracts, amount to humble 2,431,472 contracts in November 2015. The result is…

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November 30, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

EBS on Renminbi IMF vote: USDCNH is already a Top-3 currency pair with us

With the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today formally voting to include China's currency in its benchmark SDR currency basket, effective next October, we are pleased to share with LeapRate readers the views expressed by Darryl Hooker, Global Co-Head of EBS BrokerTec, the electronic FX trading arm of interdealer broker ICAP plc (LON:IAP). Mr. Hooker notes: Today’s decision…

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November 30, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

FIS finalizes acquisition of SunGard

Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE:FIS), provider of banking and payments technology, consulting and outsourcing solutions, today announced the completion of its acquisition of financial software and technology services company SunGard. The acquisition creates a combined entity with more than 55,000 employees and $9.3 billion in revenue on a pro-forma basis. In connection with the acquisition,…

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November 30, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

TradingView now offers easy access to Quandl fundamental data

Financial visualization platform TradingView is now offering easier access to the vast amount of stocks and other economic data that open platform Quandl has to offer, as it has become available through a tab in the Search window. As a result of this “tweak”, users of TradingView no longer have to perform a rather complex procedure…

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November 30, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Is KaloBios the best day trading stock of all time?

In one of our more interesting yet offbeat posts here at LeapRate over the past few months, we reported on a retail trader named Joe Campbell who turned to crowdfunding site GoFundMe to help raise money to cover his more than $100,000 debt to online broker E*TRADE Financial Corp (NASDAQ:ETFC). What did Campbell do wrong? He…

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November 30, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

DGCX plans to introduce Chinese Yuan Futures in December 2015

The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) on Friday unveiled its plans to add Chinese Yuan Futures to its offering, with the launch scheduled for December 2015, pending regulatory approvals. The contract will be financially settled on the same day as offshore equity index futures, and will hold a value of USD 50,000. It will…

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November 30, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

DMM FX adds JPY as base currency

Australian retail Forex broker DMM FX has just enlarged the lineup of base currencies that its clients can use for operations with their trading accounts – both demo and live standard ones. The new addition to the list of base currencies is the Japanese yen (JPY). It joins the lineup, which already includes AUD, USD,…

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