Tax time is coming, but unlike Winter in the popular series, Game of Thrones, it will not threaten mankind with extinction, but, perhaps, with financial ruin if you are unprepared. These words are especially relevant if you have invested, traded, or transferred the cryptocurrencies of your choice during the latest taxing period or before for…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE) has announced that Chris Isaacson, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, will become Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Eric Crampton, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Software Engineering, will become Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Both appointments will be effective January 14. Isaacson takes…
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In the beginning of the week, on Monday 7th, 2019, most of the top cryptocurrencies by market cap are seeing their prices go up. The gains, while moderate, have been seen in the last 24 hours. Bitcoin surpassed the $4,000 level. At the time of this writing, the price of the "people's currency" is $4,029,…
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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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