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April 26, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Forex broker XTB sees Head of Legal Paweł Franczak resign amid legal troubles

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that Warsaw based Retail FX brokerage group X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), which operates the XTB.com brand as well as the X Open Hub trading platform, has seen its longtime Head of Legal Paweł Frańczak resign from his position. Mr. Frańczak has also stepped down from the XTB Management Board. He…

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April 25, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Understanding MiFID II National IDs

The following article was written by Quinn Perrott, General Manager of  regulatory and compliance solutions provider TRAction Fintech. Natural person identifiers are an important part of transaction reporting and contain some complexity in their application due to the variety of identifiers available. It’s widely-known that corporate counterparties need to be identified by their legal entity…

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April 25, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FX affiliate group Investoo buys Dutch cryptocurrency portal Cryptostart.nl

Continuing its year-long acquisition spree, Investoo Group has announced the acquisition of Cryptostart.nl, a Dutch online portal for all cryptocurrencies in use worldwide. The acquisition follows Investoo's purchase of German cryptocurrency portal Bitcoinmag.de, announced in November. Investoo Group has grown to become one of the largest affiliates to FX and cryptocurrency brokers. Investoo has already been actively consolidating…

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April 25, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Capital.com launches Investmate educational app for traders

Fintech company Capital.com has announced the launch of an educational app, Investmate, which provides training for new and budding traders, allowing them to learn the basics of finance on the go. The app delivers an expansive range of introductory trading courses on financial instruments, derivatives and CFDs, as well as a course on understanding the…

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April 24, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Yahoo! Russia hack results in $35 million fine for parent Altaba

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that the entity formerly known as Yahoo! Inc. has agreed to pay a $35 million penalty to settle charges that it misled investors by failing to disclose one of the world’s largest data breaches in which hackers stole personal data relating to hundreds of millions of…

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April 24, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Polish FX broker XTB reports record Revenues of $33 million in Q1-2018

Facing trouble both at home and abroad, X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB) nevertheless has issued preliminary results for Q1-2018 indicating record Revenues and Profits for the Warsaw based company. X Trade Brokers, which operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub trading platform, reported that Q1 2018 Revenues came in at PLN 113.7…

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April 24, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

ImpacTech hires Anthony Papaevagorou from MetaQuotes as Sales Director

FinTech solutions provider ImpacTech has announced that Anthony Papaevagorou has joined the company as Sales Director to help them deliver their range of Business Intelligence solutions. Anthony Papaevagorou joins from MetaQuotes  and brings more than 10 years of industry experience. For the last 3 years, he was Head of Sales at MetaQuotes overseeing the company's…

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April 22, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

UFX.com Weekly Trading Review: Amazon's AWS Blockchain Templates, Netflix earns $3.7B

Your Weekly Trading Review by UFX.com – Sunday, April 22, 2018 Here are some of this past week’s leading economic news and events that affected the financial markets: Amazon Launches "AWS Blockchain Templates" Amazon’s web services developed a new technology known as  "AWS Blockchain Templates". The new blockchain templates will make the process of creating projects based…

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April 20, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Charges against co-founder Raymond Trapani added in $32 million fraudulent Centra Tech ICO

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has announced additional fraud charges stemming from an investigation of Centra Tech Inc.’s $32 million initial coin offering (ICO) In an amended complaint filed today, the SEC charged one of Centra’s co-founders, Raymond Trapani, in a fraudulent scheme related to Centra’s 2017 ICO, in which the company issued “CTR…

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