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EBS launched a EBS Direct platform.
May 21, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Devexperts develops BayGlobal trading app for Global Securities in Turkey

Munich, Germany based Devexperts, which develops retail and institutional trading platforms and market data solutions, has announced that together with Global Securities (Global Menkul Degerler), a brokerage firm operating in Turkey, they have launched BayGlobal - a custom made notification and trading platform created specifically for the Turkish financial markets. BayGlobal is a new generation trading…

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May 21, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Spotware Systems begins rollout of cTrader 3.0 trading platform to brokers

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that financial technology provider Spotware Systems has started rolling out the new cTrader version 3.0 to brokers. cTrader 3.0 has been a long-awaited major upgrade of the popular trading platform. Spotware indicated that this marks an important milestone for cTrader, since it is a merger of two separate applications, cTrader…

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May 21, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Playtech looks to close €846 million Snaitech acquisition in June

Online gaming and financial trading company Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) has provided an update of its planned €846 million acquisition of Italian gaming company Snaitech S.p.A. Playtech stated that it has received formal consent for the transaction from Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli, the Italian gaming regulatory authority - the main regulatory approval required for the acquisition to…

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May 21, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Investment and Binary Options scams rise in record $340 million 2017 in Australia

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has reported that Australians lost more money to scammers in 2017 than in any other year since the ACCC began reporting on scam activity. According to the ACCC’s ninth annual Targeting scams report released today, more than 200,000 scam reports were submitted to the ACCC, Australian Cybercrime Online Reporting Network…

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May 20, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FX Industry Week Review: Leverate departures, Regulated crypto exchange launch, and lots more

Forex Industry News this past week at LeapRate covered topics including... Which senior executives have left FX platform and technology provider Leverate? And Saxo Bank? Which former Retail FX broker CEO (Oanda, Alpari) has launched a new regulated cryptocurrency exchange called DX.Exchange, in partnership with NASDAQ? Who is behind INFLYX, which has launched regulated liquidity…

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May 18, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: smartTrade hit by hackers at LD4 causing downtime to clients

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that multi-asset electronic trading solutions provider smartTrade Technologies was hit by hackers last week, at its LD4 hosting location. Service was partially and intermittently not accessible to smartTrade clients in LD4 for several hours last Wednesday, May 9. At around 5:30pm UTC a smartTrade monitoring tool raised an alert at…

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May 18, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

RoboForex introduces an opportunity to buy Bitcoin using fiat currencies

RoboForex, the Belize-based unit of the Retail FX brokerage group, has announced that it is introducing an opportunity for clients to buy Bitcoin (BTC) for fiat money. RoboForex stated that this innovation will allow the company’s clients to buy BTC, perform trading operations with this asset, and convert the cryptocurrency back to fiat money. Along with…

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