When Elon Musk praises your cryptocurrency, chances are the price of the digital coin will go up. However, something even more important happened. The founder of Dogecoin, Jackson Palmer, said he is ready to sell Dogecoin.com for the colossal sum of $4.2 billion. Elon Musk, after declaring his interest in the crypto, accepted to be…
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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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The following article was written by ATFX Chief Market Strategist. Alejandro Zambrano. Forex markets are quiet, and even more so the EURUSD. Since March 28, the price has been oscillating around the 1.1220 level in a 71-pip range and using the daily Average True Range indicator (14), we need to go back to September 2014…
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Global clearing house group LCH just announced that Deutsche Bank has gone live to offer client clearing via CDSClear. Deutsche Bank is the first German bank to offer this service. MEAG and Union Investment are the first clients to connect to CDSClear via Deutsche Bank. Frank Soussan, Global Head of CDSClear, said: We’re delighted that…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) have just announced that they have agreed two MoUs to ensure there is continuity once the UK leaves the European Union. Last week, ASIC announced that new laws are about to protect financial service consumers in Australia. According to several independent…
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UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company Innovative Loans. Innovative Loans is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated activities which…
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Leaprate Exclusive... Skilling, led by CEO Anders Berglund, announced earlier that its new online forex and CFD trading platform is now open to the public. The company’s trading platform is said to be user-friendly, simple to understand, and aims to be fully accessible to everyone who wants to trade in forex, cryptocurrencies, indices, stocks and…
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) just announced that it has teamed up with real-time transactional compliance firm Droit. The partnership aims to enable market participants to leverage Droit’s reporting eligibility capabilities within DTCC’s Pre-Reporting Transformation Services for supported G20 regimes as well as the forthcoming Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR). Since 2014, Droit’s ADEPT…
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Copenhagen-based online broker Saxo Bank today announced that Niels Jørgensen will be joining the team in a newly created position as Chief SaxoExperience Officer, Global Head of Marketing and Communications as of 15 August. Niels Jørgensen will be a member of the Executive Team, and is going to be reporting directly to Kim Fournais, CEO…
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The liquidity solutions search tool Liquidity Finder Ltd just announced that the prime of prime liquidity provider Advanced Markets Group has joined its interactive website www.liquidityfinder.com. Leaprate reminds that several other brokers also joined the interactive website recently - FCA regulated derivatives and FX broker Sucden Financial Limited, Global Prime Pty Ltd, and retail forex broker…
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