Geneva based Retail FX broker and bank Dukascopy today issued a warning to its clients against a company known as GCG Asia, which is illegally using its name and logo to attract clients. Dukascopy clarified that it does not have any association or being in cooperation with GCG Asia and warned its clients against engaging…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Gold FX Trading/GFT. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…
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Forex and CFD investment company BDSwiss has just announced the launch of its new, user-friendly client portal and the addition of the technical analysis tool Autochartist to their trading tools arsenal. BDSwiss’ new client portal was developed in house, by the company’s software development team and comes as the latest addition to BDSwiss’ trading suite. The new…
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Canadian securities regulator the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) issued a warning against suspicious entities named Stone Capital Partners (SCP) and Bania Technologies Online Ltd. Stone Capital Partners (SCP) operates via the website https://stonecapital.partners/ and claims to be an online Forex, contracts for difference (CFDs), stocks, indices and commodities trading platform provider. Bania Technologies Online…
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) signed an agreement with the Registration Authority (RA) governing the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) to enhance co-operation between the two organizations. The partnership will streamline the registration of companies, enhance the sharing of information and expertise, while also providing secondment opportunities within both jurisdictions. James Shipton, Chair…
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Nice Actimize, a business owned by NICE (Nasdaq: NICE), was yesterday named by Circle as the company that will execute its market surveillance strategy, which also involves protection. Circle will use NICE Actimize’s Cloud Markets Surveillance (MS) product to strengthen its existing systems that prevent market manipulation on its trading and exchange products, which currently…
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Brett McDowell a former security advisor at PayPal was yesterday appointed as Founding vice Chair and Executive Director of Hedera Hashgraph’s Governing Council. Hedera Hashgraph is a public ledger created to diversify governance through scalable distributed consensus. McDowell has over 20 years’ experience within the IT industry and was also a founding executive at DMARC.org,…
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Switzerland represents a unique dichotomy when it comes to accepting all things crypto. Government officials have willingly thrown their country’s hat into the ring, vying for the economic benefits of having a blockchain development center headquartered in country. Crypto Valley is an ecosystem centered in and around the Swiss canton of Zug with active connections…
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A major stumbling block that crypto exchanges face is the issue of price manipulation and the lack of sufficient monitoring and surveillance tools to address these concerns on a daily operating basis. Until progress is made in this area, the SEC and major institutional players will not embrace cryptocurrencies going forward. Two former fintech engineers…
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Leaprate Exclusive... The cryptocurrency trading platform Overbit went live 10 days ago, on February 18th 2019. It allows cross-market trading using Bitcoin as the underlying asset and is an all-in-one platform, offering the ability to buy and sell cryptocurrency and various financial products. Users will be able to buy and sell currency transactions, stocks around the…
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