The year has began and so have the attacks by cyber criminals. Coinbase, the US largest cryptocurrency exchange, was forced to cease the trading of Ethereum Classic after the network experienced unusual high hashing power. The burst was caused by an unknown miner. Coinbase has publicly announced through a blog post that they have detected…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for January 7, 2019. Highlights include: Bitcoin Spikes to Over $4,000: BTC surged roughly 6.5% to over $4,000 in less than 30 minutes. BTC is trading in an overall range of $3,000 to $5,000 over the…
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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 Zimmerman Capital Partners. Zimmerman Capital Partners is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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The global clearing house LCH has just announced that 2018 was a record year for volumes across its clearing services at LCH Ltd and LCH SA. Equities, fixed income, and OTC derivatives clearing services all surpassed 2017’s clearing activity. Daniel Maguire, CEO, LCH Group, commented: 2018 was a strong year of delivery and innovation at…
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The following article was written by Retail FX broker FXTM, authorised and regulated in different jurisdictions under CySEC, FSCA, FCA and IFSC. The article includes an outlook for Q1 2019, separated by instruments by Jameel Ahmad, Global Head of Currency Strategy and Market Research at FXTM, Lukman Otunuga, Research Analyst at FXTM, and Hussein Sayed, Chief Market Strategist…
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LeapRate Exclusive… LeapRate has learned that Andreas Lazarou has been appointed CEO of HF Markets (DIFC) Ltd. The forex and commodity broker has now launched operations in the UAE through its newly acquired Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) license. Andreas Lazarou has previously been with Abu Dhabi based brokerage group ADS Securities since 2013, first…
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Blockchain assets platform Gate.IO has just launched its latest report looking at the predictions on market fluctuation, caused by Ethereum Hard Fork. Gate.IO will support the Ethereum Constantinople, which will be released on January, 14th. In the case of it generating a new valued fork chain, Gate.IO will distribute the assets to all users based…
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Market Synergy can now be used by brokers and hedge funds, offering digital assets to their client base, for institutional standard cryptocurrency connectivity and security and take a FIX feed or ISP link to Bitfinex’s digital asset gateway. Institutional firms and professional traders can now connect to Bitfinex through Market Synergy. Swiss-based Market Synergy was selected to design…
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CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has published its operating metrics for the month of December 2018. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.56 trillion - down 7.4% from USD1.68 trillion in November 2018. Average daily traded volume submitted to CLS by…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that retail FX broker Markets.com will be launching a new product soon - the MarketsX platform. CEO Joe Rundle joins us today to tell us all about it. Joe Rundle has been in the Retail FX and CFDs business for 15 years. He began his career at ETX Capital in 2004,…
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