Last week Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has released its trading volumes report for the month of May 2019. You can see the highlights below: Interest Rate Futures contracts The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 41,650 ( - 27.7% MoM / - 53.4% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 2,192. 項目 May…
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Itiviti, financial institutions tech and service provider, just announced that DZ PRIVATBANK, the cooperative private bank of DZ BANK Group, has successfully installed Itiviti’s multi-asset OMS. DZ PRIVATBANK will now be able to support an increase in customer demand relating to performance, speed and connectivity to different markets and brokers. Additionally, regulations such as MIFID…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for Leaprate their daily commentary on traditional markets for June 11, 2019. See details below: FOREX The US Dollar fell by more than 0.1% against the Euro Tuesday, resuming a downward trend after a brief reprieve on Monday. This dynamic can be explained by a market sentiment that sees a…
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The deed is done. Financial ministers of the G20 group have now decided to confront the crypto industry with tough new rules related to Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and Counter the Funding of Terrorism (CFT), much as is now required of banks across the globe. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) spent…
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LeapRate Exclusive... Tom Higgins, CEO and Founder of Gold-i, is the driving force behind his company. He has been working in the financial technology sector for over 25 years, having spent most of his career working in the City, London. His career history includes: Management Consultant at PA Consulting Group, Chief Technology Officer at The…
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It is one thing for a crypto-related company to sell tokens in an Initial Coin Offering that are most definitely securities under the law, but when a company professes a shift to blockchain, then lists on the Nasdaq, its management team better be up to speed on required SEC filing protocols and share registrations. Apparently,…
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Coinbase, the US largest cryptocurrency exchange, is adding the stablecoin DAI to its Earn Program. After Coinbase announced the upcoming EOS support in the beginning of the month, now DAI will become the second "innovative" addition that the exchange is providing to its program. The program Earn allows all users to actually receive digital coins…
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Ripple is not wasting its time when it comes to global expansion. The company has just opened a new office in Brazil - a strategic move that will help Ripple support their ever growing client base South America. The new office will enable all regional customers be closer to the San-Francisco-based startup. Ripple has already…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for June 10, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Speaking on the sidelines of the global G20 summit in Japan, Haruhiko Kuroda, the Governor of the Bank of…
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The Greenwich Associates, a global provider of data, analytics and insights to the financial services industry, has informed today that, during its last report, it has examined the final phase of uncleared margin rules (UMR) and noted that it could trigger a shift in FX options trading from OTC to exchange-based trading. UMR, which is…
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