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May 17, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: INFLYX launches risk management services to FX and CFD brokers

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that a new EU regulated provider of liquidity and risk management services has launched, based in Cyprus, called INFLYX. Seeking to broaden the scope of liquidity services to Forex and CFD brokers, INFLYX has launched a programme of comprehensive solutions for managing liquidity risk. This programme is intended to minimise exposure…

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May 17, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Leverate loses another senior executive as Head of Global Sales Ben Richter departs for EuropeFX

The management turnover at forex broker platform and technology provider Leverate is continuing, with the latest senior executive to depart being Ben Richter. Ben Richter had been with Leverate since January 2016, joining as Head of Institutional Sales before being promoted last year to Head of Global Sales. He had joined Leverate after spending eight…

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May 17, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Playtech shareholders reject CEO and Directors' pay policy at Annual Meeting

In a fairly rare occurrence in today's corporate world, online gaming and financial technologies provider Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) has seen its shareholders reject the company's proposed Annual Report on Remuneration at the company Annual Meeting held yesterday in the Isle of Man. Except in rare circumstances, annual meeting board resolutions are usually adopted (by wide margins) at…

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May 15, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

CFH Clearing hires IS Prime's Andy Biggs as Head of Liquidity

CFH Clearing, the FX liquidity and risk management services arm of Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC), has announced that it has appointed Andy Biggs as Head of Liquidity in a newly created role. Andy Biggs joins CFH Clearing from FCA regulated rival firm IS Prime, where he was Head of Liquidity for the last three years and…

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May 15, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Divergence and convergence: Description, types, methods and rules of use

The following article was written by AMarkets, a St. Vicent & the Grenadines (FSA) regulated global forex broker established in 2007. Open your account history and analyze all losing trades. I'm 95% certain, most of your trades are open in the opposite direction, in other words, where you need to buy, where the most that…

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May 15, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

CySEC clarifies rules for Forex brokers offering cryptocurrency CFDs

Cyprus financial regulator CySEC has just issued a new circular, outlining the rules governing brokers which offer cryptocurrency CFD trading to clients. CySEC began by pointing out - as did UK regulator the FCA last month - that while cryptocurrencies themselves are not considered financial instruments as defined by European rule-setter ESMA, derivatives of cryptocurrencies…

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May 15, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

How Peer-To-Peer Financing Could Open Up the Property Market to Millennials

The following article was written by freelance writer Jeff Broth. Over recent decades, student loans have become a common means of financing a university education for all but the wealthiest families. In the US alone, student debts now amount to more than $1.4 trillion, making them second only to mortgages as the largest source of…

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May 15, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FastMatch monthly revenues edge up to €1.7 million in Q1-2018

Financial markets operator Euronext NV (EPA:ENX) has released its quarterly financial report for Q1-2018, indicating healthy growth across most of its business lines, including 16% top line Revenue growth. Euronext indicated that its recently acquired Forex ECN business, FastMatch, also did fairly well in Q1, with FastMatch revenues totaling €5.2 million (USD $6.2 million) in Q1,…

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May 15, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Jeremy Nicholds replacing Roger Withers as Chairman of payments company SafeCharge

Payments services and technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) has announced that the Chairman of the company's Board of Directors, Roger Withers, will step down from his position and from the board at the end of 2018. Mr. Withers will be replaced as Chairman by current SafeCharge board member and longtime Visa and MasterCard…

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May 15, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: ITI Capital (formerly FXCM Securities) posts 2017 loss of £5 million

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that FCA regulated broker ITI Capital Limited has posted a larger loss (than last year) of £5.0 million (USD $6.8 million), eating up more than all of the new capital which the company's new ownership group put into the company during the year. (More on that below). Revenues at…

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