Cboe Europe B.V. receives authorisation from the Dutch regulator AFM LeapRate

March 12, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe Europe B.V. receives authorisation from the Dutch regulator AFM

Cboe Europe, a division of Cboe Global Markets (Cboe: CBOE), announced that Cboe Europe B.V. has just received authorisation from the Dutch Ministry of Finance and will be regulated by the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM). Cboe Europe B.V. is Cboe Europe's new subsidiary based in Amsterdam. The company is now authorised to operate a Regulated Market…

March 12, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Payton Capital Partners

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 Payton Capital Partners. Payton Capital Partners is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…

March 12, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Fidelity Digital Asset Services actively building customer base for cryptos

While the crypto community eagerly anticipates the participation of institutional heavyweights in 2019, Fidelity’s new cryptocurrency company has actually been active, silently surveying, educating, and steadily adding interested institutional investor clients, comprised at this point primarily of hedge funds and family offices. Tom Jessop, the head of Fidelity Digital Assets, recently shared his thoughts in…

Mt. Gox trustee granted another delay for distribution plan for victims

March 12, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

UN Panel of experts claims North Korea behind majority of exchange hacks

In what many may perceive as a reiteration of the obvious, the Nikkei Asian Review has reported that an unnamed panel of experts has advised the U.N. Security Council that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has been the driving force behind crypto exchange hacks since 2016 and has used its ill-gotten gains of $670…

Another warning against OneCoin Limited, this time from New Zealand FMA

March 11, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

OneCoin - the largest Ponzi scheme in the "crypto" world - is it over?

There are absolutely a lot of dubious ICOs out there - more than 70% of all ICOs created and funded in 2017 and 2018 are gone, and with them, the money of the investors. The problem is that while there is always risk with investing, especially in something as speculative as an ICO, founders should…

March 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

DRIVE Markets teams up with Gold-i

DRIVE Markets, an institutional spot and derivatives exchange, just announced that it has teamed up with Gold-i. The newly formed partnership will allow brokers to connect High Frequency Trading (HFT) systems and access a growing order book. Just last week, DRIVE Markets launched its institutional crypto and fiat currency exchange, offering derivatives trading for Bitcoin,…

March 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Breaking news: GKFX changes CEO to Mohsin Jameel

Breaking News... Rumor has it that FCA regulated retail FX and CFDs broker GKFX Financial Services Limited continues to reshape is management team, this time hiring Mohsin Jameel as its new CEO. Mohsin Jameel is a serial entrepreneur, CEO of a FX and CFD’s Consulting Services company named Bull InfoTech. Mohsin Jameel has already been…

March 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

GAIN Capital's FOREX.com releases February volumes report

FX brokerage group GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP), which operates the FOREX.com and City Index retail forex brands, has just released its trading volumes for the shortest month of the year - February 2019. OTC Average Daily Volume dropped to $6.7b with 20% MoM. OTC Trading Volume was $134.4b in February, down 27% MoM and a 53% drop YoY. 3…

March 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

FXCM Group releases monthly execution report for February

Retail forex broker FXCM Group, LLC today released its monthly execution report for February 2019. Highlights for trading of all instruments in February 2019 67.1% of orders were executed at price (up 8% MoM) 22.7% of orders were executed with positive slippage 10.2% of orders were executed with negative slippage Average execution speed of 20…

March 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Moscow Exchange adds new equity futures and options

The Moscow Exchange (MOEX) announced the launch of deliverable futures for the common shares of Polyus and Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) including options trading on stock futures. The new offerings are an addition to MOEX’s portfolio of stock derivatives, which gives portfolio managers more options when trading the two stocks. A single lot…