Many are predicting that the next financial crisis will hit anywhere in 2020. The cryptocurrency market is going from major highs to major lows, and its market cap is swinging from "strange" numbers such as $500 billion, $300 billion to $728 billion in December 2017. Now, the crypto market cap is around $120 billion. The…
Read more
The idea of a Bitcoin ETF has never left the minds of investors, it seems. In 2018, the SEC turned down more than a dozen applications for a Bitcoin ETF product. The SEC even created a special department that will investigate the essence, purpose and future of the entire blockchain and cryptocurrency industries. 2019 has…
Read more
The cryptocurrency world may have seen better days, given the fact that the crypto world just collapsed, as Bitcoin’s price is again the $4,000 price level and the crypto market cap losing $8 billion. And while ICOs are “regulated” in a variety of ways across the world, some cryptocurrency companies are getting real “muscle” behind…
Read more
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,"…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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…
Read more
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,…
Read more
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:…
Read more