Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI), has announced that it has launched an aggregate bond service to help clients access fixed income trade data that is available as a result of MiFID II in a single, simple aggregated data feed. The trade data from approved publication arrangements (APAs) and multilateral trading…
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FCA regulated online CFDs broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has continued to make purchases of its own stock pursuant to a recently announced share buyback. The company announced that last week it acquired a total of 30,455 PLUS shares, at an average share price of £12.744, for a layout of £388,119. That brings the grand total of shares…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that ASIC licensed Australia-based Retail FX brokerage group USGFX has taken a major step toward Europe, setting up a UK subsidiary called Union Standard International Group Limited (we'll call it USGFX UK). The company had applied for and received an FCA license for USGFX UK, which became effective on November 5.…
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Nodal Exchange and IncubEx have announced the successful launch of their first tranche of North American Environmental contracts. The new contracts, which mark the expansion of Nodal Exchange’s products into the environmental markets sector, include futures and options on: California Carbon Allowances, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative Allowances (RGGI), New Jersey Solar Renewable Energy Certificates, PJM…
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AERGO, the strategic technology partner of Blocko, a Samsung Ventures funded startup, has just announced it has secured $30 million in a venture funding round to allow businesses to share data through trustless blockchain networks. Blocko supports, develops, and subsequently plans to use the AERGO platform to offer a broader set of enterprise-IT solutions and…
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Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) has announced that Nasdaq Copenhagen is introducing a central counterparty participant for equity trading in its small cap market segment. The introduction removes bilateral counterparty risk, reduces transaction costs for trading members and aligns the post trade setup for equity trading on all main market segments at Nasdaq Copenhagen. Improving market conditions for…
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Australian regulator ASIC has announced that it has banned Yossef Ashkenazi, also known as Yossi Ashkenazi, of Caulfield South, Victoria, from providing financial services for a period of eight years. On 5 November 2018, ASIC cancelled the Australian Financial Services (AFS) license of the retail OTC derivative issuer, AGM Markets Pty Ltd (AGM). ASIC found…
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Which retail and institutional forex brokers announced new names and major rebrandings? What's wrong with liquidity provider Revshare agreements? Which major Playtech shareholder sold a chunk of its stake, for the first time since June 2017? Who is PrimeXM's new Head of Sales? Answers to these questions and more appeared first or only at LeapRate.…
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Many have been wondering what will happen to the much-desired Bitcoin ETF, given the strong interest from investors and the strong resistance from the SEC. And while the financial regulator has opened a special office to deal with fintech and cryptocurrency-related proposals for ETFs and new products, the first crypto ETF will go live next…
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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 Bernstein Securities. Bernstein Securities is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated activities which…
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