The CEO of Binance, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, is a talkative fellow and never one to shy away from expressing his opinions quite publicly. In a recent tweet, CZ expressed his consternation that more major retailers on the Internet have not begun to accept cryptocurrencies for online payments. In his tweet, CZ explained: For any internet…
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The power of blockchain has undeniably left its mark on almost all parts of the world. Recently, Africa has emerged as a top, or at least, promising blockchain/cryptocurrency destination. Because the market is so new, there are numerous solutions and inventions to be made using blockchain. The most remarkable thing about blockchain, however, is the…
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The asset management branch of Credit Suisse, Credit Suisse Asset Management, and Banco Best, a Portuguese financial institution, have partnered on an interesting blockchain project. The two financial institutions have processed blockchain-powered live cross-border transactions of an investment fund. The platform that was used for the transaction was FundsDLT. The latter is a decentralized platform based…
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GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP), which operates the FOREX.com and City Index retail forex brands, has released its trading volumes for the month of January 2019. LeapRate reminds that January 2018 volumes at Forex.com were the company’s best result since November 2016, the month of the U.S. election which included some record trading days after the…
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FCA regulated FX and CFD broker Infinox (formerly Go Markets UK) has just announced that it has joined the Gold-i Matrix NETwork, signing an agreement for its multi-asset liquidity to be available through Gold-i’s technology. With Matrix Net, Infinox’s liquidity will be available to brokers worldwide who use Gold-i’s Matrix, MT4 Bridge and MT5 Gateway. Other brokerages…
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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 Astaria Group. Astaria Group 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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Retail forex broker FXCM Group, LLC has just released its execution data for January 2019. Last month, FXCM Group has expanded its cryptocurrency offering by adding its second crypto CFD, Ethereum (ETH/USD). The broker released Bitcoin CFD trading back in October 2018 and has added three new CFD products for trading two months later. Earlier today the broker announced that…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe:CBOE) released its results for Q4 2018 as well as for the full year on Friday last week, both of which beat analysts’ estimates. The company grew its net revenues, total operating income as well as its operating margins. The higher operating income helped offset the slight increase in operating expenses,…
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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 RB Wealth. RB Wealth 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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Last year, payment systems provider Paysafe Group (LON:PAYS) “doubled down” on esports, with its paysafecard brand becoming Global ESL payment platform partner and one of ESL’s main sponsors worldwide. paysafecard has just announced the expansion of its partnership in 2019 with ESL. In addition to paysafecard’s sponsorship of community competitions through ESL Play, paysafecard will…
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