acquisition
April 09, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Torstone Technology acquires Percentile

Post-trade securities and derivatives processing technology provider Torstone Technology has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Percentile. Torstone has recently announced that it has expanded its London headquarters, following a revenue increase of over 50% year on year. The next step in the company's expansion is Percentile' acquisition, giving the firm the…

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forex market update
April 09, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Market commentary: The oil rally is continuing

ActivTrades' Market Analysts have provided their daily commentary on traditional markets for April 9, 2019.  Forex The British Pound remains within a tight range, around the $1.30 mark. This lack of movement reflects to some extent the markets uncertainty about the outcome of the Brexit process, as well as unwillingness to trade Sterling until there…

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LMAX Exchange hires Randy Rupan as Head of Liquidity Analysis
April 09, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

LMAX Exchange appoints Randy Rupan as Head of Liquidity Analysis

LMAX Exchange Group just announced that it has appointed Randy Rupan as Head of Liquidity Analysis. Rupan will report to Jeremy Barnes, Global Head of Liquidity Management. Randy Rupan has been in the FX industry for the last 20 years and has extensive experience in developing algorithms and analytics for foreign exchange. Prior to LMAX, he…

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Michael Karczewski, Mtach-Trade
April 09, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Match-Trade's Michael Karczewski talks about business development in the brokerage industry and new threats to the crypto market

LeapRate Exclusive... Michael Karczewski, Head of Business Operations at Match-Trade Technologies, joins Leaprate today to talk about business development in the brokerage industry during the breakthrough changes in financial technologies and constant turmoil in the cryptocurrency market. LR: Michael, Match-Trade is a provider of Forex and Crypto technology, how would you summarize last year for…

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Ripple
April 08, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Ripple donates $25 million to San Francisco State University

While the US academic life has been turned upside down with the latest scandal called Varsity Blue, where wealthy parents and CEOs have paid millions of dollars to get their children into their dream schools, one company is making headlines with its donation. The co-founder of Ripple, Chris Larsen, announced that he will be donating…

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Crypto Malware Alert: New widespread botnet attack empties crypto wallets
April 08, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

EOS with a universal wallet support with UAL

The EOS system got a major upgrade last week, thanks to EOSIO Labs and Block.one. On Wednesday last week, the Universal Authenticator Library, or the so called UAL, was released, an application that provides users with one, unified access to all blockchain-based apps. What this means is that users will be able to use EOS…

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