UK financial regulator the FCA has announced that in a criminal prosecution which it initiated, three defendants have today been found guilty for their roles in a series of boiler rooms which led to the loss of more than £2.7 million of investors’ funds. A further three defendants had pleaded guilty earlier in the proceedings.…
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The following article was written by Reem Aboul Hosn, Research and Market Analyst Officer at CFI Markets Ltd. In a significant step that marks Donald’s Trump major achievement of his presidency, Republicans have passed US tax reform in an attempt to promote economic growth, create jobs and encourage US companies to invest more said Mitch McConnell,…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that a new Asia-focused social trading and investing site called CopyCash (at copycash.io) has launched. The new Blockchain-based project is being backed by some names familiar to those in the Retail FX world, including Lior Nabat, founder and still CEO of Tradency which pioneered the mirror trading concept during the…
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The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. So you’re thinking that perhaps you can escape from beyond the grasp of MiFID II? Well you can’t because it’s going to affect everyone, and by everyone we’re including little Johnny’s savings account to Aunt May’s pension fund. And here’s why. What is Mifid…
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Will this help bring France closer to overtaking London as a European financial trading center? Despite taking a very hard line when it comes to advertising and trading of leveraged financial instruments including Forex pairs and CFDs, France is looking to become a blockchain financial center. France's Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said in a…
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Your Weekly Trading Review by UFX.com – Sunday, December 10th, 2017 These assets kept the market guessing last week. Gold decreased by -0.38%, ending at $1,248.40. Crude Oil increased by +1.18, closing at $57.36 a barrel. The DOW Jones ended the week on a high, closing at a value of 24,329.16. The S&P 500 rose in value,…
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Which FX broker is the latest to get a CySEC CIF license? Which China-backed, FCA-licensed ECN broker launched in London? Why was the FXDD-IronFX merger called off? What major change did Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) make to its Affiliate program? Answers to these questions and more appeared exclusively or first at LeapRate this week. Some of our…
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In one of the most stark examples of "establishment" people jumping on the cryptocurrency bandwagon, former CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton - one of the most recognizable faces and symbols of financial regulation - revealed this weekend that he is deeply involved in the ICO of a new token called OilCoin. OilCoin plans to launch its ICO…
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Tallinn, Estonia based Retail FX brokerage group Admiral Markets has announced the commencement of a planned €5 million capital raise, via an offering of unsecured subordinated bonds. The public offering of unsecured subordinated bonds is arranged by Admiral Markets AS and the subscription period runs from December 8-19, 2017. The issue is targeted both to…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that London based FX and CFDs broker ETX Capital has stayed internal to replace its recently departed longtime CEO Andrew Edwards, promoting COO Arman Tahmassebi to the CEO position at the company. As was exclusively reported at LeapRate at the beginning of November, Andrew Edwards surprised a lot of people…
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