Robinhood names Christine Brown as its first Chief Operating Officer for crypto
April 23, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Robinhood names Christine Brown as its first Chief Operating Officer for crypto

Robinhood’s crypto team has more than tripled this year with new hires across engineering, security, and compliance. The online platform is also making steps towards building deposit and withdrawal features for Robinhood’s crypto product. Vlad Tenev, CEO and Co-Founder of Robinhood said: Robinhood Crypto customers are reshaping the investing landscape and Christine is going to…

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R.J. O’Brien
April 22, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Christopher Bove promoted as Chief Compliance Officer at R.J. O’Brien

Bove commented: This is an exciting time as we continue to grow our talented team of professionals and put into place important technology platforms that offer us tremendous new capabilities and efficiencies. From the Eventus Systems trade surveillance platform we implemented last year, to a state-of-the-art communications surveillance platform we are working to deploy in…

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CME Group
April 22, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CME Group to integrate FX link with MarkitSERV and RTN

Dean Berry, Group Head of Trading & Banking Solutions, Refinitiv, commented: We are pleased to now support messaging from CME FX Link activity in order to standardize and streamline how customers can integrate in an efficient way with this growing marketplace for FX swaps. CME Group’s FX Link is available in a central limit order…

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Equiti adds sustainable energy stocks to its product offering
April 22, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Equiti adds sustainable energy stocks to its product offering

Iskandar Najjar, Equiti Group CEO, said: Equiti Group is committed to ESG (environmental, social and governance) practices and supportive, not only of meeting demands for these financial instruments, but also continually looking at ways of practically increasing our support. We are very pleased that our global product and risk teams have been able to swiftly…

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Credit Suisse
April 22, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Credit Suisse posts CHF 252 million net loss in Q1 2021

Thomas Gottstein, Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse Group AG, commented: Our results for the first quarter of 2021 have been significantly impacted by a CHF 4.4 billion charge related to a US-based hedge fund. The loss we report this quarter, because of this matter, is unacceptable. Together with the Board of Directors, we have…

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Australia
April 21, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FXOpen’s Australian arm adds US equity CFDs trading

Gary Thomson, Chief Operating Officer at FXOpen UK commented: We’ve seen an increased uptake in equity trading in recent months within our UK brokerage and are delighted to widen the reach of equity markets to the wider FXOpen group. The official announcement said: Clients of FXOpen can access leverage of 1:5 on US Stock CFDs,…

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finra
April 21, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FINRA bars former Goldman Sachs research analyst Brian Maguire

The US watchdog found that in April and June last year, Maguire bought shares of two companies in undisclosed accounts after learning important information not yet open to the public. He received internal emails revealing that the research analyst covering those companies was upgrading his recommendation from “Neutral” to “Buy” in upcoming research reports. Maguire…

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Lars Gottwik set to leave JFD after ten years
April 21, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Lars Gottwik set to leave JFD after ten years

Lars Gottwik expressed in a heartfelt note: It was a unique experience and great adventure growing JFD, together with my teammates, from zero to a globally renowned multi-asset broker. Our team spirit, combined with the ambition to change a whole industry for the better by becoming more transparent and client-centric, made the difference. After these…

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