With all the hoopla surrounding the stumbling Bakkt futures exchange, we tend to forget that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has already established itself as a “go to” place for Bitcoin futures contracts. The CME is also a wily competitor, having knocked out the Chicago Board of Exchange (CBoE) from the arena last March. The…
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FlexTrade Systems and Woodline Partners, a San Francisco-based investment firm, have announced the integration of MSCI’s Barra real time portfolio risk and factor analysis solutions into the FlexONE OEMS. MSCI Inc.’s (NYSE:MSCI) factor models help investment managers understand portfolio and market risk. They are also enabling them to build portfolios based on objectives and risk…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for October 16, 2019. See details below: FOREX/BREXIT Today the pound is receding against both the dollar and the euro, after climbing to a five-month high on Tuesday when it touched $1.28. Obviously Brexit and the ongoing negotiations between the UK and…
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Estonia based Retail FX brokerage group Admiral Markets has announced that it has added the Australian markets to its global equity offering in the MetaTrader platform. Admiral Markets clients with MT5 accounts will now have access to most popular markets from the Australia 200 index, including: Australia's biggest banks - Commonwealth Bank, National Australia Bank,…
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LeapRate Exclusive… Yoav Dror is the CEO of PumaPay, one of the biggest ICOs in 2018, raising over $117m. With an MBA and over 20 years of experience in heading online high-transaction companies, Yoav is now leading the team developing PumaPay’s blockchain-based PullPayment protocol, enabling businesses to easily accept cryptocurrency payments. Yoav joins Leaprate today…
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The following post was provided by online FX and CFD broker ATFX. Global e-commerce platform and public cloud provider Amazon will share its Q3 earnings results on October 24, 2019. Amazon is the third-largest digital ad platform behind Facebook (FB) and Google (GOOGL). The company continues to launch new products and services and is targeting…
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Online trading company CFI has just announced that it has obtained FCA’s approval for its UK subsidiary Credit Financier Invest Limited (CFI UK) to commence its operations. As of October 14 2019, CFI UK operates as an authorized and regulated firm by the Financial Conduct authority (FCA) under license number FRN 828955. Hisham Mansour &…
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When the G20 approved the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) back in late June, the group imposed a one-year deadline for local regulators to adopt new rules and regulations regarding implementation and compliance. The rules themselves have no explicit penalty provisions, but crypto exchanges are already four months into the process and…
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Venezuela's oil-backed state cryptocurrency is getting some traction. After the stable coin was created to fight off inflation and Trump's imposing regulations on the country, the Petro has experienced some downs, as it was not perceived well from common people and especially businesses. Things are starting to change, it looks. The Petro is now reportedly…
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Liquidity and tech provider of solutions for the crypto and FX industry, B2Broker has just announced that it has launched a special offer to new clients of Trader’s Room. The company will now offer new Trader’s Room clients integration with its IB Module free of charge for 6 months, providing a highly effective affiliate program…
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