fca fine
December 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

UK investment professional Angela Burns fined £20.000 by the FCA

UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has just announced that it has fined the UK investment professional Angela Burns £20,000. The regulator has also banned her from acting as a non-executive director. The official and complete FCA announcement can be seen below: The Financial Conduct authority (FCA) has banned Angela Burns from acting as a non-executive director (NED)…

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December 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FXCM Group reports 64% of orders executed at price in November

Retail forex broker FXCM Group, LLC has today released execution data for November 2018. The company has recently added three new CFD products, including Commodity CFDs and the Index CFD US2000. November 2018 All Instruments Highlights: 64.0% of orders executed at price 24.7% of orders executed with positive slippage 11.3% of orders executed with negative…

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Monax launches blockchain-based Marmota Prime game
December 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Monax launches blockchain-based Marmota Prime game

Digital legal infrastructure company Monax has just announced the launch of its first blockchain-based game. The name is Marmota Prime and its about winning donations in kind to charitable organisations, such as The Salvation Army, Toys for Tots and Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for Sick Children. Beginning today, new challenges will launch on the platform every 24 hours until…

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Tools For Brokers adds Brokers’ Business Intelligence to its Gold package
December 14, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Tools For Brokers adds Brokers’ Business Intelligence to its Gold package

Tools For Brokers, a provider of fintech solutions for the crypto and forex industry, has just included the basic version of Brokers’ Business Intelligence in the company’s Gold package. Brokers’ Business Intelligence is a cross-functional risk management and business analytics service: the basic version of product includes efficient toolkits for money management and decision making.…

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Daily Market analysis
December 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: ETH futures market could spark innovation

Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for December 13, 2018. Highlights include: ETH Futures Market Could Spark Innovation: The CFTC is accepting comments on an Ethereum futures market, a development which could allow entrepreneurs to develop Ethereum-based projects, while hedging against the…

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European Commission adopts new rules to increase transparency in securities financing markets
December 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

European Commission adopts new rules to increase transparency in securities financing markets

In an important step towards increasing the transparency of securities financing markets, the European Commission announced earlier today that it has adopted a package new measures under the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR). The SFTR requires all securities financing transactions to be reported to a central database called "trade repository". The delegated and implementing acts…

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clone firm FCA warning
December 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Insight Managed Funds clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Insight Managed Funds. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…

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FlexTrade adds Paul Beatty to team
December 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deutsche Börse's Wolfgang Eholzer is Eurex Exchange's new CTO

Eurex Exchange has just announced its most recent appointment - Wolfgang Eholzer will be its new Chief Technology Officer, effective January 2019. Eholzer joined Eurex in 2007 from Deutsche Börse Group‘s IT delivery organization. His new job will be focusing on IT strategy and on Eurex‘s trading system T7. I am very happy that Wolfgang is joining…

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fma warning
December 13, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

New Zealand FMA warns against Bitcoin Revolution Limited

The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has just issued a public warning against a scam company called Bitcoin Revolution Limited. Bitcoin Revolution Limited Associated entity: Bitcoin Wealth Website: www.bitcoinrevolutionapp.com; www.pro-net-system.com According to the regulator, this company could be involved in a scam. Articles posted on social media about The New Zealand Treasury and/or current or former…

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