The United States Attorney’s Office for the Easter District of New York announced this week that Instagram influencer “Jay Mazini”, whose real name is Jegara Igbara, has been charged with wire fraud. The charges were related to a Bitcoin scheme where the social media influencer is alleged to have persuaded his followers to send him…
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Shalom Berkovitz, eToro UK Managing Director and eToro Group CFO and Deputy CEO commented: Dan joins us at a pivotal time. eToro is experiencing strong growth adding over 5 million new registered users in 2020 and a further 1.2 million in January 2021 alone. Today, we have over 20 million registered users globally and we…
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A veteran in the field, Frenkel has more than 40 years in global macroeconomics. He has built a significant experience in leading and advising a number of high profile multi-national financial institutions. Most recently, Frenkel served as Chairman of JPMorgan Chase International, between 2009 and 2020. He was also Chairman of the Board of Trustees…
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This is the second time the brokerage is updating its income expectations for the financial year 2021. In January the company expected the net operating income to be £376.6 million, ranging from £370.2 million to £387.5 million. CMC Markets reported a 135% jump in revenue in the first half of the financial year with around…
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EUROPEAN SHARES Stocks managed to edge slightly higher in Europe on Thursday, despite a bearish opening amid lingering macro uncertainty. Inflation worries, virus spikes and political tensions continue to pressure market sentiment this week while bullish investors increasingly struggle to find positive catalysts. Most stock traders are now trying to identify shares and sectors with…
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In January 2021, Igbara started to post videos offering to buy Bitcoin from his followers for prices around 3.5% to 5% above market value, justifying his generous offering by claiming that standard Bitcoin exchanges had limited the amount of the cryptocurrency he was able to purchase. To reassure victims of their transaction legitimacy, Igbara would…
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Brett Tejpaul, Head of Institutional Trading at Coinbase, commented: As we focus on building the crypto-economy, we look to partner with leaders like Skrill who can white-label our turnkey solution to provide and support digital assets to their clients without having to learn the nuances of building a crypto exchange. Along with the US dollar,…
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Chi-X Asia Pacific has operations in Australia and Japan. Chi-X Australia (CXA) registers 18.4% of the total market share in country and offers trading in all Australian-listed securities, as well as the exclusive trading of CXA quoted warrants and ETFs. Chi-X Japan (CXJ) accounts for 2.7% lit market share, offers four trading books including both…
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Ed Tilly, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer at Cboe Global Markets commented: Over the last six years, Cathy's strategic vision for growing the Information Solutions business has been instrumental to our efforts to build a more expansive suite of data analytics, market intelligence and execution services. Her expertise in integrating the company's client-facing technologies…
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Kumar has most recently held leading positions at Refinitiv, including Global Head of FIX Onboarding for the Redi EMS, managing a global team that operated on a 24/7 basis. He also gained invaluable experience throughout his time within Goldman Sach’s electronic trading division and his early career experience at the likes of Indus Valley Partners…
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