Estonia based Retail FX brokerage firm Admiral Markets Group AS has announced it has reduced its spreads on its most popular financial instruments, including top currency pairs like the EUR/USD. Admiral Markets clients can now trade its most popular Forex currency pairs at the following typical spreads: EUR/USD: 0.6 pips GBP/USD: 1.0 pips USD/JPY: 0.9…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm AON Asset Management. 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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The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has released the findings of its investigation of potential disclosure breaches during the failure of Wynyard Group Limited. the complete text of the regulator's announcement reads as follows: The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) today published the findings of its investigation into Wynyard Group Limited’s (Wynyard) compliance with continuous disclosure and fair dealing…
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Private financial cloud provider for the global capital markets industry, Options, has opened a brand new office in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The new headquarters, based in Linen Loft, Adelaide Street, will consist of 100 new financial technology jobs. Options has already opened one Belfast office back in 2014. Options’ Chief Operating Officer, Danny Moore, former…
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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 VIP Crypto / Cryptonix Team. VIP Crypto / Cryptonix Team is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is…
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The blockchain startup CryptoKaiju has just announced the launch of its individual product. CryptoKaiju is producing the world's first vinyl toys fully traceable on a public blockchain. Kaiju has also released the launch of its subscription box service. Kaiju’s first figure name is Genesis and illustrates a Bitcoin-themed traditional Kaiju monster. Genesis figures are only 130 and their shipment…
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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 Arc Protection Limited. Arc Protection Limited is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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MetaQuotes Software Corp. has announced that, after the release of MetaTrader 5 build 1930, brokers can start serving clients directly in MetaTrader 5 chats. Now traders and technical support teams can chat directly while trading. The updated platform chat functionality lets traders to jointly discuss trading ideas, create custom channels with their own content, as…
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The OTT broadcaster for BWF content in Indonesia and the Philippines, SportsFix, has announced that it has partnered with ProximaX to integrate its ProximaX Sirius platform utilizing blockchain technology. The broadcaster will take this step to tokenize its Digital StadiumTM starting with the HSBC BWF World Tour Finals in December. Since September, Sportsfix has added over…
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Australian regulator ASIC has informed earlier today that it has cancelled Melbourne based retail OTC derivative issuer, Berndale Capital Securities Pty Ltd’s (Berndale) Australian Financial Services (AFS) license. The official reasons ASIC pointed out are that Berndale: failed to take reasonable steps to ensure that its representative complied with financial services laws; failed to have…
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