Binance, despite some bad luck in the past, continues to disrupt new crypto markets, as the latest move of the exchange is to launch a trading desk operation for the US market in the upcoming several weeks. This comes off as great news for US-based clients, as some were worried about Binance's strategy in the…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for September 9, 2019. See details below: GOLD & SILVER Market sentiment remains strong on stock markets and gold so far failed to rebound after the sharp decline seen in the final part of last week. The main trend remains positive, even…
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Australian-based Prime of Prime broker, Global Prime, announced that it has teamed up with FinTech company Gold-i to offer its liquidity through Gold-i’s multi-asset liquidity management platform, Matrix Net. As of this month, Global Prime’s institutional liquidity - FX, CFDs (metals, indices and cryptocurrencies) and NDFs - will be available to Gold-i’s extensive global client…
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ASIC regulated Australia-based multi-asset trading provider, ACY Securities, has hired Ashley Jessen as their new Head of Marketing. Jessen has almost 20 years’ experience in the financial markets and will be in charge of developing the digital marketing strategy, implementing performance-based marketing campaigns and identifying market opportunities. Prior to ACY Securities, Jessen was CEO of…
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Australian regulator ASIC informed earlier today that following an investigation, the Former director of Hudson Resources Limited and Raffles Capital Limited, Benjamin Amzalak, has pleaded guilty to an offence of market manipulation. Amzalak, of Bondi, NSW, has been sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment. He took part in transactions that had the effect of creating…
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Chilean broker MercadosG, established in 2011, just announced that it has launched MetaQuotes' Meta Trader 5 (MT5) platform to traders. More than 10,000 trading symbols are now available for MT5 users in Latin America. The broker's offering includes currency pairs, contracts of the largest global corporation stocks (Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.), exchange indices, commodities, and…
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TradeStation Securities, Inc., the online broker-dealer and FCM operating subsidiary of TradeStation Group, has teamed up with TradingView, Inc., to launch an API-powered integration platform. Mutual customers of TradeStation Securities and TradingView will now be able to execute equities and commodity futures orders through TradeStation Securities’ back-end execution systems, from a TradingView website display screen,…
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FX prime brokers, J.P. Morgan and NatWest Markets announced earlier today that they are now providing access to Spotex’s institutional ECN. Both companies join as Spotex is expanding its presence in the institutional FX market segment with the firm’s introduction of new disclosed direct market access (DMA) liquidity pools as well as other initiatives to…
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While the UK FSA has had some ideas about how to approach the ever growing cryptocurrency, blockchain and overall the entire fintech industry, another financial regulatory body is taking serious steps to do the same thing. The Indonesian FSA, also known as OJK, has created an online registration platform so as to more efficiently oversee…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for September 6, 2019. See details below: EUROPEAN SHARES European shares opened mixed this morning despite a boosted market sentiment observed during the Asian session following a better than expected Yuan currency fixing by the People’s Bank of China. However, the Hong…
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