Binance, the largest crypto exchange in the world by volume and now based out of Malta, has been making waves of late in the industry, many of which are viewed as controversial, as it blazes new trails and tiptoes around regulatory challenges thrown in its path. For a firm that has appeared to go out…
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Global clearing house LCH announced that Bank of China (UK) Limited, Bank of China’s UK entity, has gone live as a clearing member of LCH’s SwapClear. Bank of China is LCH's first clearing member from a Chinese banking group. The Bank will now have access to clearing of interest rate derivatives at LCH and will…
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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 19, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. One major factor of uncertainty may now be removed from financial markets, possibly paving the way for a prolonged…
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Trading solutions provider Spotware announced earlier today that it has teamed up up with Blinger.io, the omnichannel solution for customer communication, to deliver customer support on the cTrader trading platform. The plan involves an integration of cTrader Live Chat with Blinger.io, which will allow cTrader Live Chat to become one of Blinger.io’s channels, so brokers…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for Leaprate their daily commentary on traditional markets for June 19, 2019. See details below: FOREX The US Dollar is showing signs of strength again. The Dollar Index had 5 consecutive sessions of gains in a row and is currently sitting around 97.125. As trade tensions ease between the US…
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Bitcoin pulled back again after beating on the $9,400 door, where ostensibly profit taking orders proliferated. BTC remained in positive territory for June, a feat few analysts predicted two weeks back, but the number crunchers were mixed, when it came to explaining why Bitcoin finally had a “sluggish” day at the trading table. There has…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group announced last week total open interest (OI) reached a record 150,400,590 contracts on June 11. Since the end of 2018, overall OI has grown 30%. Interest Rate futures and options OI reached a record 109,070,205 contracts. Interest Rate OI increased 41% since the end of 2018. Overall exchange options OI reached a…
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The UK regulator FCA has put out details of three clone firms yesterday. 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 the following details as part of their tactics to scam people in…
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Euronext, the pan-European exchange, announced that the battle for Oslo Børs VPS has finally come to an end and that it has just finalized the acquisition. Euronext has completed settlement of shares under its offers launched on 14 January 2019 and 31 May 2019. Euronext now owns 97.8% of the total issued and outstanding share…
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Equiti Group just announced that Arik Oslerne has parted ways with the company by mutual agreement. Mr. Oslerne has been the Group's COO in the UK for over 4 years and more recently the Chief Business Development Officer for the Middle East & Africa region. It is reported that he is leaving the Group to…
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