Cyprus financial regulator CySEC puts out some version of a warning against impersonators appearing as CySEC officials in an attempt to scam unsuspecting investors quite often these days. CySEC has already issued several warnings like this - two times back in 2017, as well as June, November, and October 2016. CySEC again reminded investors and…
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ForexClear members have announced that, through the use of the service’s compression solution, they have reduced their notional outstanding by $4.5 billion, global clearing house LCH informed earlier today. ForexClear has seen demand for its NDF clearing service significantly increase since the introduction of the uncleared margin rules in September 2016. LeapRate reminds, that ForexClear service processed over $1…
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TMX Group (TSE:X) has just announced the appointment of Sanjay Kulkarni as Chief Marketing Officer and Head of Digital Solutions, effective November 28, 2018. Mr. Kulkarni is an accomplished business and marketing executive with more than 18 years of experience in product development, product marketing, and commercial strategy. He joins TMX from West Corporation where…
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LeapRate Exclusive… LeapRate has learned that London based FX liquidity and prime brokerage services provider IS Prime has reported strong financials, with an increase in turnover year end 31 March 2018. Reported figures from the FCA regulated broker show a rise to £17.2 million year end 2018. The financials for IS Prime’s year end 2018 show…
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Via Varejo, a company controlled by the GPA, operating the Casas Bahia, Pontofrio and Bartira brands, has announced that it has concluded the migration of its shares to the B3 Novo Mercado. Companies listed in this segment, which represents the highest level of corporate governance, can only have their capital stock composed of voting shares,…
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MetaQuotes Software Corp. has just announced that Tradays has expanded the economic calendar geographically by adding Germany on top of the US, European Union, Japan, UK, Canada, Switzerland, China, Australia and New Zealand. Data on upcoming macroeconomic events is gathered from public sources in real time. Historical, current and forecast values, as well as importance…
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Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI), has just informed the public that it is enhancing the WM/Reuters Thai Baht Spot FX Benchmarks with data sourced from Matching, Refinitiv’s anonymous central limit order book. This has allowed the Thai Baht (THB) and Thai Baht Offshore (TOF) benchmarks to become ‘trade’ currencies using the…
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LXDX, a digital asset exchange focusing on derivatives based on underlying cryptocurrency assets, has just announced that it has opened its platform access. Traders will be able to create accounts and begin Know Your Customer (KYC) processes ahead of launch next month. LXDX will be offering derivative products for speculative and hedge trading on crypto assets…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Capital Markets. 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 to…
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Lodestar Ecosystems Limited, a supplier of intelligent chatbot software to the capital markets industry, has just informed the public about the launch of its Change Monitor. Dr Anthony Edwards, Chief Scientific Officer commented on the news: Basically, at a high level, the LodeBot (the intelligent chatbot from Lodestar) can now provide change monitors that monitor…
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