partnership
December 16, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Pico partners with BSO to expand crypto offering

Under the new partnership agreement, Pico will extend its network to offer its clients access to BSO’s Crypto Connect.PicoNet clients will be able to use Crypto Connect’s global, low-latency, cloud-to-cloud connections into more than 35 major crypto exchanges. Michael Ourabah, Chief Executive Officer, BSO, said: BSO has always prided itself on delivering the mission-critical infrastructure…

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December 15, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ICE Global Network expands in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo

ICE has strengthened connectivity access center offerings in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo. Among the new improvements are ultra-low-latency access to local markets, including Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEX), the Japan Exchange Group (JPX) and the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE), as well as with regional and international connectivity leveraging ICE’s ultra-low latency backbone. Magnus Cattan,…

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December 15, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Swissquote upgrades ESG investing with information on stocks

Marc Bürki, CEO of Swissquote, commented: We are continuously improving our own ESG profile by strengthening our corporate governance, supporting our employees and tracking our environmental footprint. However, the biggest impact we can make is to motivate our half a million customers to make better investment choices, where better means not only more performance at…

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Acquisition
December 15, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

United Fintech announces acquisition of Cobalt

Under the acquisition agreement, United Fintech will onboard Cobalt, its clients and employees onto its platform. However, Cobalt will continue to operate as a standalone company. Christian Frahm will serve as the new Chairman of Cobalt and Cobalt’s co-founder & Chief Product Officer Andrew Coyne and CEO Darren Coote will remain in leadership of the…

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December 15, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

SEC charges eight Twitter and Discord influencers with running a $100 million securities fraud scheme

Joseph Sansone, Chief of the SEC Enforcement Division’s Market Abuse Unit, said: As our complaint states, the defendants used social media to amass a large following of novice investors and then took advantage of their followers by repeatedly feeding them a steady diet of misinformation, which resulted in fraudulent profits of approximately $100 million. Today’s…

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Euroclear reports operating income increase of 7% in H1 2021
December 14, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Euroclear announces acquisition of Goji

David Genn, CEO, Goji commented: We are delighted to partner with Euroclear to deliver the platform infrastructure that the private markets industry needs. The ever-increasing demand from all investor groups to access private funds, points to the need for an end-to-end digital processing solution for these asset classes. The combination of Euroclear’s position in the…

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Spectrum Markets
December 14, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Spectrum Markets adds SocGen as a liquidity provider and a market maker offer new financial instruments in Spain and Scandinavia

Nicky Maan, Spectrum Markets CEO, explained: We’ve always said we want to list only those products that are most interesting for European retail investors, focusing on what they are actually going to use, and the new products from Societe Generale certainly fit that mould. Offering more investment options in terms of duration, as well as…

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