cryptocurrency
January 16, 2020 BY Mariela Naydenova

Crypto derivatives platform Blade to offer zero-fee crypto trading

The Coinbase-backed crypto derivatives platform Blade has announced on January 15, 2020 that it will offer zero-fee trading for its clients beginning next month. With this service, Blade will become the very first crypto exchange that offers zero-fee trading in bitcoin perpetuals. These perpetuals are contracts with no expiration date that resemble a margin-based spot…

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Kraken
January 16, 2020 BY Mariela Naydenova

Kraken acquires Australian crypto exchange Bit Trade

Kraken, one of the largest US cryptocurrency exchanges is expanding. It has completed the acquisition of one of Australia's first crypto exchanges (launched in 2013) - Bit Trade. The information comes from an official press release sent out by Kraken. According to press, Bit Trade's website will continue to operate in its usual manner since…

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FlexTrade adds Paul Beatty to team
January 16, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Fintech company TreasurySpring names John Bentley Head of Sales

London-based fintech company TreasurySpring has announced that it has added John Bentley to its team as Head of Sales. Bentley will lead a five-person sales team and will be responsible for the firm’s expansion strategy, direct sales, as well as driving additional growth through third party distribution partnerships. Prior to TreasurySpring, Bentley worked for HSBC…

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Euronext
January 16, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Euronext acquires 66% of the share capital of Nord Pool

Euronext has announced earlier this week that it has completed the acquisition of 66% of the share capital and voting rights of the Nord Pool group, after receiving regulatory approvals. Nord Pool is the second largest power market in Europe - LeapRate reminds that in 2018, the company generated c.€40 million revenue and 524 TWh…

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Daily Market analysis
January 16, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: Lower volatility on gold

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for January 16, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX Despite the signing of a ‘Phase One’ trade deal between the US and China, which was supposed to reassure the markets and drive risk-on sentiment, trading has been…

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IS Prime gets Hong Kong SFC licence
January 16, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

IS Prime gets Hong Kong SFC licence

IS Prime Hong Kong, part of ISAM Capital Markets, has just announced that it has been granted a Type 3 Leveraged Foreign Exchange Trading licence by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). The licence enables IS Prime Hong Kong to offer Leveraged FX Trading services to institutional professional investors. The Responsible Officers for…

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January 15, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

The challenges of 100% uptime solution

This article is courtesy of Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. The year of 2018 announced the era when DDoS attacks exceeded 1 terabyte on an individual attack basis. The definition of a “DDoS” (Distributed Denial-of Service) attack is “a malicious attempt to disrupt normal traffic of a targeted server,…

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