Maria Nikolova
LeapRate Analyst
March 10, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Thomson Reuters makes all financial content sets available in Eikon

Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) today announces that its flagship financial desktop, Eikon, now offers all of its financial content sets from one platform. As a result of the enhancements, Thomson Reuters Eikon customers get access to I/B/E/S estimates, Reuters news, StarMine quant models, a set of environmental, social and governance (ESG) measures, a Deals database,…

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March 10, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Russia's KROUFR blacklists MXTrade

Russia’s Commission for the regulation of relations in the financial market (KROUFR) today added Forex broker MXTrade to its “Black List”. Clients of the broker have complained that they are unable to withdraw their profits generated from trading. Instead, the company allows them to withdraw only the initially invested money. The company does not respond…

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March 10, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Russia's NSD enables connecting to SWIFT via certified Service Bureau

Russia’s National Settlement Depository, part of the Moscow Exchange Group or Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX), announces today that it has introduced services of the certified Service Bureau of SWIFT in the Russian market. The SWIFT Service Bureau is an organization which secures full access to all SWIFT services and is responsible for organizing interactions with…

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March 10, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

SafeCharge meets forecasts, posts EBITDA of $31.1 million in FY 2015

SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH), an international provider of payments services, technologies and risk management solutions for online and mobile businesses, today published its report for the full year 2015. Following a very strong first half of 2015, the company managed to see even stronger metrics in the second half of the year, with revenues…

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March 10, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Equinix partners with Facebook to develop open source ecosystem inside IBX data centers

Equinix Inc (NASDAQ:EQIX), which yesterday officially opened a new data center in Tokyo, has just unveiled a partnership with Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB). Equinix has incorporated technology designed by Facebook and available from the Open Compute Project (OCP), in order to develop an open source ecosystem inside Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centers. Equinix and…

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March 10, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FXAsia updates disclosure in response to ASIC concerns

The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) today announced that FXAsia Pty Ltd (FXAsia) has taken steps to update disclosure on its website (https://www.fxasia.com/) after the regulator voiced its concerns regarding the scope of the company's authorization and the claims on its website. The updates will inform visitors of the corporate website that FXAsia cannot currently…

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March 09, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Italy's Consob warns against binary options broker 55profit

Italy's financial markets regulator Consob keeps updating its warning list, with the latest addition being 55profit. 55profit, operating from www.55profit.com, offers binary options services to English-speaking and Italian-speaking clientele. The latter fact must have drawn the attention of the Italian watchdog. Consob warns that 55profit is not authorized to offer any investment services in Italy.…

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