ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for November 5, 2019. See details below: FOREX The dollar is strengthening, gaining ground against traditional safe haven currencies to be up by around 0.25% against both the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc. This market dynamic is inspired by renewed hopes…
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Fintech company Integral just released its volumes report for the month of October 2019. The firm reported average daily volumes (ADV) across Integral platforms totaled $36.4 billion last month. This represents an increase of 5.2% YoY and a 2.4% drop MoM. LeapRate reminds that in 2018 Integral invested in Mint Exchange, a cryptocurrency clearinghouse designed for…
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CLS, a market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, has just announced that it has added Deborah Hrvatin to its team as Chief Risk Officer. Hrvatin will lead the Risk function globally. Prior to CLS, Hrvatin was Global Head of Operational Risk Management for the Institutional Clients Group at Citigroup. She spent 22 years…
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Conservative investment advisors are of a different breed, especially when it comes to appraising the merits of cryptocurrencies. This part of the institutional investor arena will generally be the last ones to come to the crypto party, but not everyone of this genre is solidly in this “stay-away” camp. One of these contrary fellows is…
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Euronext has announced the launch of a new Euronext Green Bonds offering across its six regulated markets. The initiative is operated out of Euronext Dublin, the group centre of excellence for Debt, Funds and ETFs, and is designed to encourage and promote more sustainable investment in Europe. The Green Bonds offering goes live today with…
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Crypto investors are always confronted with the daunting task of how do I safeguard my digital assets. I can trust my exchange and hope that a compromise will not rob me of my funds. I can also choose to have an offline wallet, which will house my private “keys”, but then I need to keep…
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A lot has changed in global commerce in 75 years, but there is one thing that has not – the dependence of global trade on the U.S. Dollar. As World War II was ending, one monumental meeting resulted in the formation of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the establishment of the U.S.…
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The largest Ponzi scheme in the crypto world, as Leaprate reported not long ago, is OneCoin. While there are many fake ICOs, OneCoin stands out as the largest one - defrauding the global economy of approximately $4 billion in under 5 years. While the founder, Ruja Ignatova, and her brother are the main "heroes" of…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for November 4, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Today's Highlights Not Likely That BTC Whale Fueled 2017 Price Surge: The more likely narrative of what fueled the…
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FCA regulated CFH Clearing, TradeTech Group’s Liquidity Provider and Prime of Prime brokerage, has just announced that it has enhanced its multi-asset liquidity offering with new data analytics tools and increased transparency for clients. Andy Biggs, Head of Liquidity at CFH Clearing commented on the news: CFH has built an impressive in-house analytics system which…
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