The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has elected three new members to DTCC’s Board of Directors during its Annual Shareholders Meeting. The DTCC Board of Directors is currently comprised of 20 Directors. The new directors are Kieran Hanrahan, Managing Director in J.P. Morgan Chase’s Corporate and Investment Bank, Graeme McEvoy, Managing Director in the…
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CySEC regulated Forex and CFD investment company BDSwiss has just announced that it has launched MetaTrader 5 with hedging options. BDSwiss' clients will now be able to trade 250 financial instruments using the desktop and mobile platform versions for Windows, iOS and Android. BDSwiss shared that it will add more underlying instruments soon and will…
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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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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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If there is one aspect about cryptocurrencies that irritates regulators and government officials more than any other, it is the anonymity afforded the criminal element of our society by the nature of blockchain distributed ledger systems. At its next meeting on June 8 and 9 in Fukuoka, Japan, the G20 central bank governors and finance…
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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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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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Bitcoin is on a roll again, and analysts, clearly stumped by recent price movements, are beginning to believe that a repeat of years gone by might just be in the making. You only have to go back to January to hear every dour prediction that you could imagine for anyone brave enough to maintain a…
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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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The real estate market has been already disrupted by blockchain. That is true especially when it comes to real estate companies and startups that are looking for new and innovative ways to boost property sales and expand their markets. Now, some of the world’s largest financial players such as RBS and Barclays are jumping on…
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