Deutsche Börse Cash Market has informed that 5% YoY (2.6 million executed orders) more transactions in structured products were executed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange last year. The total trading volume on the certificates exchange amounted to €13.7 billion, 5% less than in the previous year. The extension of trading hours has had a positive effect,"…
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Terra, the blockchain company building a payment system powered by its stablecoin, has just announced that it has teamed up with Mongolia’s capital city of Ulaanbaatar. The partnership's aim is to utilize Terra's blockchain technology and change how Mongolian citizens pay for goods and services, as well as to reform the largely cash-based infrastructure of Mongolia…
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Pan European regulator the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has just published its first Annual Statistical Report on the cost and performance of retail investment products. The regulator includes the lack of available and usable cost and performance data as a highlight, claiming that it could cause problems from an investor protection perspective. LeapRate…
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Traditional wealth managers set to lose market share to robo-advisors, according to the data and analytics company GlobalData. The robo-advisory market is increasing in competition globally, with more start-ups entering the wealth management industry year by year, the company added. Broadridge claimed that robo-advisors and inorganic intelligence are the future of wealth management industry back…
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LeapRate Exclusive... 2018 has been a great year for trading solutions provider Spotware FX and CFD trading platform cTrader - cTrader Open API 2.0 was released just a few days ago, Spotware replaced cMirror with cTrader Copy trading service, cTrader Copy, on the other hand, enhanced PAMM. Panagiotis Charalampous, Head of Community Management of cTrader at…
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The following article is courtesy of financial service provider AETOS Capital Group. Part I of the article can be found here. Additionally, the second quarter of 2018 may be the peak of America's current round of economic growth. Risky Assets Face Three Big Threats Over the past 20 years, the global market index of MSCI,…
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Retail forex broker FXCM Group, LLC has today released execution data for December 2018. The company has recently added three new CFD products, including Commodity CFDs and the Index CFD US2000 and has finished 2018 with steady volumes MoM. The company has also teamed up with DGCX Exchange and APEX Exchange in December. December 2018 All Instruments Highlights:…
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Leading online Swiss bank Swissquote Group Holding SA (SWX:SQN) has just announced an expected growth in earnings and profit of 15% for 2018 as a whole. This forecast has now been achieved with total earnings of CHF214 million and expected with pre-tax profit of CHF53.5 million (+16% YoY). Swissquote thus presents the best annual result…
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Equiti Capital UK Limited has appointed its Chief Operating Officer, Michael Ayres, to its board of directors. Ayres joined Equiti Capital UK Limited, previously known as Divisa Capital UK, back in August 2018. Prior to joining Equiti, Michael Ayres held the position of Director of Operations/COO at GKFX. Ayres has significant industry experience under his belt;…
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Concordium Foundation, the Swiss non-profit behind the Concordium Network blockchain, has just added two new team members: Former Vice Chairman of NASDAQ Europe Hans-Ole Jochumsen to the advisory board, and Cryptographer Ivan Damgård as Cryptography Lead on Concordium’s Core Science Team. Hans-Ole Jochumsen comes from ten years at NASDAQ, rising to President in 2015 and…
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