July 17, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Itiviti teams up with Bloomberg to facilitate transition for SSEOMS clients

Itiviti, Technology and service provider to financial institutions, Itiviti, has announced yesterday that it has teamed up with Bloomberg L.P.. The partnership aims to enable a seamless transition and onboarding process for clients currently using Bloomberg SSEOMS to Iitiviti’s multi-asset Order Management System (OMS). This collaboration also enables pre-integration of key Bloomberg products, including the…

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Binance seeks to curb SEC’s hunt for “fraud”
July 16, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Is Binance launching a fiat-to-crypto exchange in South Korea?

Binance, the world's leading cryptocurrency exchange, is reportedly planning to launch a fiat-to-cryptocurrency exchange in South Korea. The information comes from a news report at CryptoGlobe. According to press, this is what the founder and CEO of Binance said regarding the project: We do not know the details related to the establishment of the Korean…

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ACB Investment announces slash of commissions
July 16, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Global marketplace ACB Investment launches ACB web platform

The following article is a guest post of Asset Capital Business Inc. (ACB). ACB is a global marketplace, founded in 2019. The newly formed global marketplace Asset Capital Business Inc. (ACB) have announced that they have just launched their ACB web platform. The platform offers many instruments in a popular MT5 versions. The company traders…

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forex market crypto news and updates
July 16, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: Forex unaffected by monetary policy shift

Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for July 16, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. It seems like everybody's talking about Libra lately, and I do mean everybody. Yesterday afternoon, the Secretary of the…

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ESMA bond liquidity data
July 16, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

ESMA consults on performance fee guidelines for retail funds

Busy days for the EU’s securities markets’ regulator ESMA, as the regulator has just published a public consultation on draft guidelines on performance fees under the Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities (UCITS) Directive. LeapRate reminds that last week, ESMA has published a statement, addressed to providers marketing, distributing or selling CFDs to retail…

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July 16, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

TradingScreen certifies with IHS Markit’s thinkFolio investment management platform

All-asset class order and execution management system (EMS), TradingScreen Inc. (TS), has announced a certified integration with thinkFolio, IHS Markit’s investment management platform. The companies' mutual clients can benefit from a standardised and certified interface between the two platforms which will provide scalability and reduce costs. thinkFolio clients will now have access to TradingScreen’s EMS…

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SEC
July 16, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nomura pays misled bond clients $25m after SEC charges

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has yesterday informed the public that it has instituted two related enforcement actions against Nomura Securities International Inc. The Japanese financial holding company has agreed to repay approximately $25 million to customers for its failure to adequately supervise traders in mortgage-backed securities. Nomura bond traders made false and misleading…

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fca warning clone firm
July 16, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

UK FCA issues two more clone firm warnings

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of two more clone firms this week - J and E Davy and AZR Capital. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out…

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