avelacom
March 06, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Avelacom expands to Virginia with direct connection to Amazon AWS North America

Avelacom expands to a wider variety of cryptocurrency markets, making it easer for institutions to take advantage of arbitrage and other latency sensitive strategies. Global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider, Avelacom, launched a new point-of-presence (PoP) in Ashburn, Virginia, with direct connectivity to Amazon AWS US – East–1 region. Its most popular route for cryptocurrency…

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fxcm launches stock baskets
March 06, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

FXCM introduces commission-free equity trading

FXCM Group, LLC, international foreign exchange trading, CFD trading, cryptocurrencies and related services provider, announced its expansion into equity trading with the launch of a commission-free trading service in collaboration with Interactive Brokers. Equity trading is one of the most popular investment securities for retail traders. FXCM will create a dedicated online and mobile trading…

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international women's day women in technology sector gender equality interview
March 06, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Spotlight on women in tech for International Women’s Day

Sunday March 8th will mark International Women’s Day — and despite progress, the fields of science and technology still experience gender inequality. Below is a commentary from a selection of female representatives from the technology sector, expressing their views on what can be done to advance their fields. These women play prominent roles in the…

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Jeff Wilkins talks about risk management in the FX industry
March 06, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Risk Management: Close your eyes and hope for the best?

LeapRate Exclusive... Jeff Wilkins, Managing Director at IS Risk Analytics (ISRA), part of the ISAM Capital Markets Group talks to LeapRate about the risk management methodology of the “Revenue Share Shops” that exist in today’s FX industry. LR: Jeff – you feel very strongly about how detrimental these ‘Revenue Share Shops’ are. Can you explain…

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Daily Market analysis
March 06, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: The dollar’s debacle continues

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts prepared their daily commentary on traditional markets for March 6, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX The dollar’s debacle continues, with losses of almost 3.5% in the last two weeks on the index that tracks the greenback's performance . The threat posed by coronavirus to the growth…

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acquisition
March 06, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Broadridge acquires FundsLibrary

Global Fintech provider and part of the S&P 500 Index, Broadridge Financial Solutions, announced earlier this week the acquisition of FundsLibrary, fund document and data dissemination platform. Broadridge’s pan-European regulatory communications and digital data platform will benefit from the acquisition with lifecycle of fund data, documents, and regulatory reporting for the investment industry support. FundsLibrary’s…

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Adopting Trading for the API Economy
March 06, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Adopting Trading for the API Economy

The following article was written by Panagiotis Charalampous, Head of Community Management of cTrader at Spotware. One of the most important characteristics of good software design is its extensibility. This design principle has become more and more of a must for any software architecture in an increasingly connected and interdependent world. The introduction of Application…

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