Fintech company ATFX has announced that it has launched a brand new face recognition technology for trading account opening. The latest addition has been made in order to ensure the security and safety services to the clients. Face recognition technology will now verify customer identities when opening trading accounts online. The Far East is the first…
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Boerse Stuttgart has released its volumes report for the whole year 2019. Based on the order book statistics, turnover from all trading activities amounted to around EUR 68.5 billion last year – 3,7% less than in 2018. Trading in equities generated turnover of around EUR 14.7 billion. German equities contributed around EUR 10.3 billion to…
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More news from Singapore today, as Singapore Exchange (SGX) has just announced that it has added Orient Futures International (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. as a Trading and Clearing Member to its derivatives market. SGX’s derivatives market now has 65 Trading Members and 26 Clearing Members. Orient Futures International is a wholly owned subsidiary of Orient Futures Co.,…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has just announced that it has added Daisy Cheung to its Risk Management Committee (Statutory) (RMC). Daisy Cheung is the new chairman of the Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Limited (HKICL) and her appointment has been made in accordance with the Securities and Futures Ordinance. Cheung replaced Gao Yingxin, the…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for January 2, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: GOLD After pausing for a few months, investors’ appetite for bullion recovered momentum and the gold price skyrocketed in the last few days of 2019, jumping well above the…
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Singapore Exchange Regulation (SGX RegCo) has announced today that it has set up a working group of industry professionals and investors to review the retail bonds regulatory framework. The group will discuss matters such as the admission criteria for retail bond listings, the continuing obligations of issuers of such bonds, and ways to protect bondholder…
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The new year hasn't even started out yet and there are already massive whale alerts going off in the crypto space. Today, there was a Whale Alert Twitter account that detected a huge amount of XRP released by Ripple to its so-called Funding Wallet 1. The Funding Wallet 1 was created by Ripple's co-founder and…
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Africa is believed to be the next great destination for blockchain and cryptocurrencies. The latest example of this trend coming up quickly in 2020 is a crypto startup that provides wifi hotspot services in Nigeria. The company has won funding from Africa's telecom regulator. The grant is for 2 million naira (around $5,500) and it…
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China is introducing a Password Law at the very start of 2020 to promote digital currencies and their adoption. The ultimate goal is to allow the technology of blockchain to thrive and set a legal framework for the issue of digital blockchain-based RMB. According to press, China passed a password law in 2019 (October) that…
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While there is no proof who the real Satoshi Nakamoto is, legal cases and Bitcoin awards for proclaimed "Satoshis" are quire common. The latest one involves the most famous "Satoshi" of all: Mr. Craig Wright. Mr. Wright has fought several legal battles in the crypto industry, with the latest being against his former business partner…
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