November 04, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Bitcoin price tops $430 up 46% in a week - for no apparent reason

Here we go again. One of retail traders' favorite boom-and-bust instruments is back in full bloom boom mode. And for no good apparent reason. After flatlining most of September and rising steadily but slowly during October, prices of cryptocurrency Bitcoin have taken off during the first three days of November. In trading early Wednesday (GMT…

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November 03, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Proven Ways FX Brokers Can Master FX connectivity in China

The following guest post is courtesy of Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Fortex. — Today many global FX brokers have their sights set on China. It is certainly a land of opportunity, where brokers, regardless of their size, can unlock their growth potential and capture above-average profit margins. It seems the perfect market, doesn’t…

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November 01, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Top Bitcoin Myths – #3: Bitcoin allows for anonymous payments

The following guest post is one of a series courtesy of Marco Streng, CEO and Co-founder of Genesis Mining. — The best way to define Bitcoin is to visualize it as a public ledger. This ledger records every transaction that occurs on the network and every transaction that will ever occur on the network. With limited technical…

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October 30, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

5 BIG Mistakes Trading Brands Make in Their Promotional Emails

The following guest post is courtesy of Tiz G. Corta, CEO of email marketing solutions provider DVFX.com. DVFX is a performance-based marketing agency with more than 5 years experience, serving a variety of industries including a number of Forex and Binary Options brokers. — There are many elements that go into a great promotional email campaign. The offer…

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October 30, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Playtech shares soar 10% Thursday after reporting bullish Q3 results

Shares of gaming technology and forex brokerage company Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) soared more than 10% on Thursday, after the company reported better-than-expected financial results in Q3. A good part of that positive surprise was thanks to Playtech's newly established Financials Division, which consists of the online trading brands it purchased from controlling shareholder Teddy Sagi earlier…

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October 29, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

Tradable adds Anna Coulling's Quantum Trading 3D trading tools to its app store

Trading apps and platform provider Tradable has announced that it has added Quantum Trading tools to its App Store, allowing Forex traders to benefit from the “Three Dimensional Approach of Trading” methodology created by Quantum Trading’s Anna Coulling. Anna believes trading is done best by understanding that fundamental, technical and relational analysis are three equally…

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October 28, 2015 BY LeapRate Staff

CME Group engages bank transfer platform Dwolla to enable faster access to liquidity and funding

Derivatives markets operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has announced a commercial agreement with Dwolla, a modern bank transfer platform. The arrangement will offer Dwolla's real-time architecture to facilitate on demand payment capabilities for clearing and settlement, as well as streamline payment operations for CME Clearing members and clients. The first application of Dwolla's technology will…

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