It should come as no surprise that crooks also know the benefits of outsourcing, especially when it comes to money laundering. To perform the entire operation on your own would require a multitude of phony companies, bank accounts, and the ability to transfer and deposit at will, not exactly what a common thief could build…
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LeapRate Exclusive... Global Market Index ltd (GMIUK) announced a number of changes to the management of the firm. Chris Hossain-Nelson, who had joined last summer as Global Head of Sales, is in now in the process of being appointed to the Board of Directors of GMIUK. Before joining GMIUK, Hossain-Nelson was the Global Head of…
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A new crypto-based ETF application has been filed with the SEC. This time is not about "all about" Bitcoin, though. The application has been filed by Crescent Crypto Index Services LLC. The subsidiary of Crescent Crypto Asset Management LLC envisages an ETF that tracks the performance of market cap-weighted portfolio of ether and bitcoin. With…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for May 10, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Highlights include: Stocks Off the Highs Uber Day How Many Crypto? Traditional Markets Stock markets have retreated from their…
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Bitcoin prices, despite a major breach at the Binance crypto exchange, have surged 9.3% in the past few days, now hovering at $6,166. What is pushing BTC past what most thought was an impenetrable barrier, the $6,000 level? Bloomberg announced the news: “Fidelity, one of the world’s largest investment firms with almost $7 billion customer…
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Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has just released its trading volumes report for the month of April 2019. Interest Rate Futures contracts The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 57,590 ( - 39.9% MoM / - 54.7% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 2,880. 項目 April 2019 Trading Volume Daily Average Change…
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Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has earlier this week released its volume report for the month of April. Total trading volume across Moscow Exchange’s markets was RUB 73.8 trln in April 2019. The growth leaders were bond (+24.3%), GCC repo (+22.2%), commodity derivatives (+18.4%) and CCP repo (+12.5%) markets. The complete report as shown on Moscow Exchange's…
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ASIC and FCA licensed Retail FX broker AETOS Capital Group have provided their daily commentary on traditional markets for May 10, 2019. AUD/USD The AUD was relatively flat overnight, trading within a 20-25 pip range and will close around the 0.6990 mark. The longer the AUD pins itself below the key 0.7000 level the more likely…
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If the crypto blockchain is anything, it is transparent, but only to a degree. Account addresses and their balances are in full public view. Researchers are free to slice and dice the data in a myriad of ways, but what they cannot see, unless it is publicly disclosed, are owners of particular accounts. The top…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for Leaprate their daily commentary on traditional markets for May 10, 2019. See details below: Gold Stock markets are rebounding despite Donald Trump’s tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, confirming that investors are still trying to keep alive the bullish sentiment. In this scenario, gold is, once again,…
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