FinTech Coins (FTC) successfully completes Pre-ICO, phase two to begin February 16 LeapRate

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February 14, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FinTech Coins (FTC) successfully completes Pre-ICO, phase two to begin February 16

FTC (Financial Technology Cryptocurrency) has announced that it had reached its 4.5 million coins target for its first Pre-ICO. This raise marked the end of the initial ICO raise and the company stated that it provided an encouraging sign for the company and indeed its contributors. FTC is an established brand specialising in digital currency innovation…

February 14, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Swissquote adds NZZ Mediengruppe executive Monica Dell'Anna to its board

Swiss online banking and brokerage leader Swissquote Group Holding SA (SWX:SQN) has announced that it will propose to the shareholders the election of Dr. Monica Dell'Anna as a member of the Board of Directors at its Annual General Meeting on May 4, 2018. The remaining five members of Swissquote's board will all stand for re-election. Mario…

February 14, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Plus500 reports record Revenues of $132 million for Q4, 2018 starts even better

CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has reported its financial metrics for 2017, indicating record results for both the full year and for what was an amazing Q4 - plus (no pun intended), an even better start to 2018. Overall for 2017, Plus500 brought in $437.2 million of Revenue versus $327.9 million in 2016 - an…

February 14, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Australia parliament passes legislation to create Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA)

Australia's financial regulator ASIC has stated that it welcomes the passage through Parliament of the Bill to establish the new Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA). The AFCA will start accepting complaints no later than November 1, 2018. AFCA is the culmination of more than 20 months of public consultation and inquiry, commencing with the review…

February 14, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

IOSCO wants all securities regulators to enforce CFD leverage limitations, negative balance protection

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a Report on Retail OTC Leveraged Products, providing its own guidance to the world's financial and securities regulators on the future of leveraged trading. IOSCO members include virtually all of the key major (and minor) global regulators including the FCA in the UK, the SEC in the…

February 13, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

HotForex launches in-house Copy Trading service HFcopy

Global retail forex and multi-asset broker HotForex has announced the launch of HFcopy, a service through which individuals can follow traders’ accounts, essentially copying their trades. Having invested in its in-house specialists and advanced technology to produce a proprietary platform for HFcopy, HotForex announced this powerful internally-developed solution aiming to make trading more accessible to a…

Blackbull Markets website new zealand fx broker

February 13, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: New Zealand FX broker Blackbull Markets hires ADS veteran Anish Satinder Lal as Head of FX & Metals

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Auckland, New Zealand based MT4 broker has hired Anish Satinder Lal as its new Head of FX & Metals. Anish Satinder Lal joins Blackbull after stints at OneTwoTrade, Atom8, and most recently ADS Securities, where he held various FX trading and sales roles. Blackbull was founded in 2014 by 25-year old…

February 13, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

MiFID II Is Now in Effect, but Will It Conflict with the Upcoming GDPR?

The following article was written by Scott Whitney, senior vice president of product management at communications compliance, archiving, and analytics company Actiance. Much has been written about Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) over the past year. But only recently people have people started to notice that…

February 13, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FX brokers AGM Markets, OTCapital and Ozifin have assets frozen in ASIC crackdown

Continuing its efforts to clean up the Retail FX sector in Australia, ASIC has issued a warning to the public not to deal with any of the following entities in relation to trading in margin FX contracts for difference (CFDs) and bitcoin CFDs: AGM Markets: AGM Markets Pty Ltd, holding AFSL license No 422662. Registered business…

February 12, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

The Key Behind Data-Driven Marketing

The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. “Hiding within those mounds of data is knowledge that could change… the world.” (Atul Butte, Stanford) The world as we know it is driven by technology, data, and information. Concepts such as Big Data motivate competition in the global business sector, whereby companies have…

FinTech Coins (FTC) successfully completes Pre-ICO, phase two to begin February 16

Swissquote adds NZZ Mediengruppe executive Monica Dell'Anna to its board

Plus500 reports record Revenues of $132 million for Q4, 2018 starts even better

Australia parliament passes legislation to create Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA)

IOSCO wants all securities regulators to enforce CFD leverage limitations, negative balance protection

HotForex launches in-house Copy Trading service HFcopy

Exclusive: New Zealand FX broker Blackbull Markets hires ADS veteran Anish Satinder Lal as Head of FX & Metals

FX brokers AGM Markets, OTCapital and Ozifin have assets frozen in ASIC crackdown

The Key Behind Data-Driven Marketing

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