Equiti Group, the parent company of Equiti Capital UK and EGM Futures, has just announced that it has added Dr Gaafar Saleh to its team as a Global Head of Growth. In this newly created role, Dr Saleh will be responsible for the successful scaling up of growth at Equiti. Dr Saleh will also contribute…
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Australian regulator ASIC has yesterday reported on its assessment of the markets operated by Bloomberg Tradebook Australia Pty Ltd (BTA). The Australian watchdog has made recommendations to improve BTA’s arrangements for governance, supervision and enforcement, and systems and controls, as well as to strengthen its arrangements so as to meet increasing regulatory and investor expectations of…
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Parliament stymies Boris Johnson and his Brexit aspirations. Trade talks show no progress, and China releases worst economic data in three decades. A trio of news stories that could wreak havoc in financial markets and send capital fleeing for safe havens, but not to Bitcoin, at least not yet. The world’s favorite digital asset had…
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While we are all watching to see what will happen to Facebook's Libra, there is very interesting point to note about Mark Zuckerberg's recent testimony before the US Congress. The comments about Libra were not surprising at all and the reaction of congressmen was not either. It seems that Libra is not going to be…
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The FCA in the UK is to decide whether to ban crypto derivatives for retail investors or not. The UK government has come to the conclusion that it is time for the regulator to decide the fate of the crypto product. According to press, on the 21st of October, the Economic Secretary to the Treasury,…
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If there was one action that could catapult Bitcoin awareness through the public masses in the United States, crypto advocates have long asserted that access to a commingled trust, a Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF), would do the trick. This proposition, however, has withered on the vine, as the SEC has chosen to reject every application…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for October 23, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Hi Everyone, They're at it again. What began as an innocent one-time cash injection to keep markets from drying…
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Economic news from China this past Friday was, in a word, “tepid”. For the first time in three decades, Chinese government officials are admitting that economic growth may decline below 6%. Foreign investment is already at 4.5% levels, suggesting there is not much in the pipeline that could boost data any time soon. The lagging…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for October 23, 2019. See details below: FOREX The Pound lost approximately 1% of its value, in relation to the US Dollar, following yesterday’s votes in the British parliament. Lawmakers delivered a mixed verdict, approving the Brexit withdrawal bill but rejecting the…
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Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of information giant Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI), has announced the addition of next-generation digital tools for wealth portals. The new digital tools aim to deliver a customizable suite of widget capabilities designed to support the experiences of wealth management firms on Refinitiv’s portal. The company's HTML-5 responsive widgets provide a…
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