Mati Greenspan, a former senior market analyst at FX broker eToro, is the founder and CEO of Quantum Economics, a research and consulting company that specializes in money management, advisory and analysis services. Mati is also the Author of the Book The Complete Guide to Fintech Investing, and is a licensed portfolio manager in the…
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ATFX has announced today that it plans to launch the MT5 trading platform to different regions. The platform will be available to clients by Q1 2020. This global project is being rolled out in phases as scheduled. The company already has 14 offices across the world. There are more than 100 trading tools through MetaTrader…
Read moreBack in December 2017, Leaprate reported that the SEC obtained an emergency asset freeze to stop the ICO fraud of PlexCorps that raised $15 million from multiple investors by misleading them with 13-fold profit figures in less than 1 month. After the regulator settled charges with PlexCorps by penalizing it with $4.56 million plus an…
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Not long ago, one of the most awaited ICOs in the crypto industry was called off. Leaprate reported that Telegram called off its initial coin offering after raising the jaw-dropping amount of $1.7 billion in the presale round. Not only that, but the SEC went on to sue TON (the Telegram Open Network) and Telegram for…
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Deutsche Börse Commodities GmbH has announced that the gold holdings of the exchange-traded bearer bond Xetra-Gold (ISIN: DE000A0S9GB0) increased to 203.2 tonnes at the end of the year 2019. This is an increase of 21.7 tonnes over the course of the year. At the beginning of 2019, 181.5 tonnes of gold were stored in the…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of several unregulated firms. The names of the latest additions to the regulator’s warning list are Time4Actions, Pro Capital Markets, Investment Bridge, CF Sum, as well as clones of Novum Bank and Heartland Investment Management Limited. According to the regulator, the fraudsters are using or…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced yesterday that it has charged six individuals and their companies with participating in international microcap fraud schemes. The above-mentioned schemes generated more than $35 million of illegal sales of stock in at least 45 microcap companies. According to the regulator, Steve M. Bajic and Rajesh Taneja helped shareholders…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for January 3, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: GOLD The tension between the US and Iran is lifting gold, with the price close to the six-and-a-half year peak reached in September. The bullish scenario of the last…
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Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has released its volumes report for the last month of 2019 and for the whole last year. ADV in December MoM (Dec vs Nov ’19) based on 22 days increased 0.43%. FXSpotStream’s ADV based on 21 days to compare the same trading time period to other FX venues would be…
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Deutsche Börse has today published its cash market trading statistics for 2019. In total, an order book turnover of €1.50 trillion was achieved last year on the three trading venues Xetra, Börse Frankfurt and Tradegate Exchange, a 12.7% YoY drop (2018: €1.72 billion). The stocks of SAP, Commerzbank, Aixtron and Flatex were the most traded…
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