Sometimes numbers really matter, especially if you want to demonstrate how far an industry has come along in a short period of time. Bitcoin has done just that, when you measure the cumulative value of fee revenue streams to the mining industry. Recent news stories about Bitcoin’s halving event in May of 2020 have focused…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for November 7, 2019. See details below: EUROPEAN SHARES European shares extended yesterday’s global gains after the two largest economies in the world buoyed market sentiment with an agreement to roll back tariffs on each other’s goods prior to a phase one…
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GMO-Z.com Trade UK Limited, FCA-regulated and an affiliated company of retail forex provider GMO CLICK Securities Inc, has just announced that it has launched a new institutional prime-of-prime service. The new service will be offered under a new brand – Z.com Global Markets. To date, the company had been offering its services primarily to retail…
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Global multi-asset investment platform eToro has announced that it has acquired portfolio tracking and pricing data app Delta for an undisclosed amount. Commenting on the news, Yoni Assia, Co-founder and CEO of eToro, said: We are excited to announce that Delta will become part of the eToro Group. This is our second acquisition this year…
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The following article was exclusively prepared for LeapRate by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets. I book travel and shop online often, who doesn’t today? Like many others, I compare dates, rates and amenities of flights and hotels and make a point of checking guest and product reviews as I rarely trust…
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LeapRate Exclusive... Andrey Stoychev has been in the industry business for more than 15 years. He is highly skilled in capital markets, OTC instruments trading and risk management. Stoychev is a frequent lecturer at financial and investment forums, seminars and conferences, and he also is a regular guest in financial programmes at professional TV and…
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The story of Facebook's Libra and Mark Zuckerberg's "relationship" with the US Congress has reached new levels. The much awaited cryptocurrency called Libra might not be launched after all in 2019, as Facebook cannot get the approval of regulatory bodies yet. The European Union also expressed great concerns over the launch of such a global…
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Justin Sun, the CEO of BitTorrent, won a bid to have lunch with the Wizard of Omaha, Warren Buffet. The bid price? $4.6 million! As Leaprate reported, Warren Buffett is known for holding auctions for various charitable causes. The billionaire investor has also commented several times that he does not believe in the merits of cryptocurrencies,…
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Victims of the Mt. Gox debacle have become accustomed to delays, but as we reported last April, there were hints that a “rehabilitation plan”, as it is called, was in the process of finalization. Payments would surely commence sometime within this year. The trustee, unfortunately, could not comply by the October 31 deadline date and…
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The Bakkt crypto exchange has been up and running for well over a month now, and although its opening was more subdued that most Bitcoin enthusiasts would have liked, it is beginning to pick up steam with its institutional clients. Jeffrey Sprecher, the CEO for the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the owner and operator of the…
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