December 03, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Paysafe CEO Joel Leonoff sells 1.15 million shares in company

Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS), formerly known as Optimal Payments, has reported of a transaction in its shares. The transaction, which took place on December 2, 2015, saw Paysafe's President and Chief Executive Officer Joel Leonoff sell 1,150,000 Ordinary Shares of 0.01 pence each in the company on the open market at an average price of…

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December 03, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

Fidessa adds options analytics from Hanweck to equities trading platform

Fidessa Group plc (LON:FDSA), a provider of trading, investment and information solutions for financial companies, today announced the integration Hanweck Associate’s VoleraFEED™ into its sell-side equities trading platform. Through VoleraFEED, Fidessa will provide users of the platform with access to high-performance options analytics. The Volera® analytics engine employs hardware acceleration to handle today’s highly complex…

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December 03, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

GMO Click registers 21.8% MoM drop in OTC Forex volumes in November

Japanese Forex giant GMO Click Securities, a subsidiary of GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), has earlier today published its key operating metrics for November 2015, with the numbers revealing steep decreases in both OTC Forex and on-exchange Forex volumes. In fact, November was even slower for Forex trading than October 2015, which was the weakest…

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December 03, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Expobank to rename FXCM Securities as Walbrook Capital Markets

Following our report yesterday that FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) had closed the sale of its regulated UK CFD arm FXCM Securities to Latvia's AS Expobank - which had been exclusively reported on LeapRate back in July - LeapRate has learned that Expobank has plans for its new FCA regulated arm, including a name change to Walbrook Capital Markets.…

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December 03, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

ForexTime adds MT4 WebTrader to offering

The latest Forex broker to start offering the web version of the popular MetaTrader 4 (MT4) platform is ForexTime Limited (FXTM). Clients of the Cyprus-based company can now make use of browser-based trading via FXTM MT4 WebTrader. The list of advantages of the new solution includes, of course, the fact that there is no need…

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December 03, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

JP Morgan takes 7.4% stake in SafeCharge

Advanced payment technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) has seen global bank JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) up its stake in the company to 7.43%. The SafeCharge shares are formally held by JPM subsidiary JPMorgan Asset Management Holdings (UK) Limited. It is unclear if the shares are being held by JP Morgan on behalf of investing…

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December 03, 2015 BY Maria Nikolova

MetaTrader platforms now support ePayments system

Trading software developer MetaQuotes Software has just announced the addition of one more payment system to the lineup of payment methods available on the MetaTrader 4 (MT4) and MetaTrader 5 (MT5) trading platforms. The MT4 and MT5 platforms now support the ePayments system, which offers a convenient and secure e-wallet to traders. The ePayments system…

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