LSEG’s UnaVista and TradeChannel collaborate on SFTR reporting solution LeapRate

April 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

LSEG’s UnaVista and TradeChannel collaborate on SFTR reporting solution

TradeChannel, part of Compliance Solutions Strategies (CSS), has just announced that it has joined London Stock Exchange Group's UnaVista Partner Programme to support clients in meeting the requirements for the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR). UnaVista is a regulatory technology platform, while TradeChannel is a software company that assists the financial community with post-trade regulatory transaction…

April 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

ATFX Forex weekly market update: April 15, 2019

The following guest post is courtesy of ATFX Global Chief Market Strategist Alejandro Zambrano. As the new week is underway, metal prices have come under pressure, and gold prices look ready for a significant decline. Gold prices bottomed out in August 2018, and when crude oil prices and U.S. stock market indices peaked in October 2018,…

April 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CMC Markets adds spread bet and CFDs trading on seven more cryptocurrencies

Global provider of online trading CMC Markets Plc (NYSE:CMC) just announced that they have added CFDs trading on another seven cryptocurrencies. The company has also started offering spread betting to its clients. In addition to bitcoin, ethereum, bitcoin cash, litecoin and ripple, now also available to trade on the Next Generation platform are: dash, EOS,…

April 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Market commentary: Oil is showing some weakness

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have provided their daily commentary on traditional markets for April 15, 2019. Forex The US Dollar continues to record losses, trading at $1.1320 to the Euro during early Monday trading as the markets’ risk-on mood carries on from last week, with encouraging signs provided by progress in the China-US trade talks and…

April 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Digital assets, crypto and blockchain are here to stay: LMAX Exchange CEO David Mercer speaks

LeapRate Exclusive Interview… LMAX Exchange Group’s 2018 financials report has gone out last month, releasing excellent growth and record financial performance for the year ended 31st December 2018. It has been almost two years since our last interview with David Mercer, CEO of LMAX Exchange. What has changed in the company since then, what are…

April 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

AETOS daily forex market commentary

ASIC and FCA licensed Retail FX broker AETOS Capital Group have provided their daily commentary on traditional markets for April 15, 2019. EURUSD The Euro closed higher on Friday, closing at 1.1297(+38 pips) against the greenback. Sronger risk appetite boosted the EUR on Friday. The American dollar came under selling pressure amid resurgent risk appetite, which…

Stax Inc. teams up with Coleman Research

April 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Fed's Policy Shift Year: AETOS analyst Ryan Chen special report - Part I

The following article is courtesy of AETOS analyst Ryan Chen. Why the shift in monetary policy Prior to the beginning of 2019, America saw a quarter threatened by a growing crisis. On October 3, 2018, starting with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Powell's statement that "It is still a long way before the neutral interest rate,"…

April 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Property Option Investing

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 Property Option Investing. Property Option Investing is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…

April 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

IMF’s Lagarde bashing cryptos, while piloting own internal coin system

Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, is making waves in the crypto sea again, churning away on both sides of the debate, while the crypto community accuses her of hypocrisy of the first order. On one day, she posits in an interview with CNBC that all things crypto are a disruptive…

April 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Retention & Rewards for brokers in 2019

FX & CFD trading is an incredibly competitive global marketplace. Traders often have multiple accounts with different brokers and lack loyalty to one single brand. Rising acquisition costs and a lack of differentiation in market is leading to a potential new phase for broker’s marketing and product offerings. Rewards programs offer Forex and CFD brokers…