Eurex, part of Deutsche Börse Group, has announced today that it will extend its pioneering role in ETF derivatives. Europe’s derivatives exchange will be the first to launch EUR-denominated fixed income ETF options on 9 December. The two underlying ETFs – iShares EUR High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (IHYG LN) and iShares Core EUR Corporate…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of another unregulated firm yesterday. The name of the latest addition to the regulator’s warning list is the company Claim Yours Limited. According to the regulator, this firm is not authorised by the FCA and is targeting people in the UK. Based upon information the…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for December 9, 2019. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX/BREXIT The pound edged up against the US dollar by 0.2% during early Monday trading. The continuous support found by Sterling, especially over the last two weeks, arises from…
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It was not that long ago that the phrase “fintech” would have fallen on deaf ears, but in recent years, our lives have been re-ordered in a way by computer programs, apps, and technology that have taken our banking and financial services to new levels. The digital age has ignited a number of debates between…
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On Friday, December 6th, in a prosecution hearing against a potential criminal cartel case involving Deutsche Bank AG and Citigroup INC, the former JPMorgan head of markets, Jeff Herbert-Smith, served as a prosecution witness claiming that the banks never colluded in the first place. The testimony actually served as a blow to the prosecution case…
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New Zealand has a rather untypical financial industry structure: the country doesn't have its own banks, but it relies entirely on Australia's big four banks. As reported by Financial Review, the fact that the two countries share the same banks and the same "client" for exporting their commodities (China), if for some reason both economies…
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CPT Markets UK, previously Citypoint Trading, the FX and CFD trading firm has just announced that it has become a member of the London Stock Exchange. Nick Lewis, the CEO of CPT Markets UK, commented on the news: Even though CPT Markets UK has been operating out of the UK for more than 10 years,…
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Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for December 6, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Highlights include: Bakkt CEO Appointed to Senate: Kelly Loeffler, the CEO of institutional futures platform Bakkt, will replace the outgoing Johnny…
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ATFX Global Chief Market Strategist, Alejandro Zambrano, prepared a market analysis of the next FOMC rate meeting. The next FOMC rate meeting will take place next week on December 11, 2019, and looks to be an event that should not spur too much attention in the markets as the Federal Reserve has made it clear that they…
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The Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse AG has announced that it has nominated the IBM Manager Martin Jetter as the candidate to succeed the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Company. Martin Jetter is to succeed Joachim Faber, who has been a member of the Supervisory Board since May 2009 and its Chairman since…
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