Steffy Bogdanova
LeapRate Analyst

Experienced writer and journalist, working in the global online trading sector, Steffy is the Editor of LeapRate. She has previous experience as a copywriter and has been with the company since January 2020. Steffy has a British and American Studies degree from St. Kliment Ochridski University in Sofia.
February 09, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Pico launches Corvil Electronic Trading Data Warehouse

The new solution also offers full trade traceability from issuer to market to isolate degraded decision and transmission latencies, transaction completeness monitoring and reconciliation across inter and intra-plant to detect lost messages and discrepancies in real-time. Clients can also benefit from live order state monitoring to track open position, close open orders and reconcile client/market…

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February 08, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ThinkMarkets increases margin on share CFDs because of volatility

ThinkMarkets pointed that that the margin changes for some of the products are significant and urged traders to make sure their accounts are “capitalised well enough to avoid a margin call.” These changes will take effect tomorrow, on 9 February, at 2100 hours GMT. ThinkMarkets has been focused on expansion during the past year. The…

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Eurex
February 08, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Eurex witnesses record euro clearing volumes in January

The exchange stated: Also, in its listed business Eurex saw a good start into the new year. In terms of traded contracts, equity index derivatives stood out in particular, growing by 6 percent year-on-year to 65.7 million in January. Interest rate derivatives contracts traded also grew – by 4 percent to 45.2 million year-on-year. Equity…

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February 08, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Credit Suisse faced with money laundering charges

This customer had started placing suitcases full of cash in a safe deposit box at Credit Suisse. He was later shot dead in 2005. The prosecutors believe that Banev and his associates used a practice called smurfing. This entails breaking down a large sum of money into smaller amounts, which are below the AML alert…

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Aquis Technologies teams up with Investre
February 08, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Aquis Technologies announces partnership with Investre

Trading of tokenised funds The partnership will enable trading of tokenised, actively managed funds, specifically UCITS (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) funds. The UCITS trading is planned to launch in 2022. Founder and CEO of Investre Georges Bock explained: Our vision is to have tokenised funds traded online and, one day, to trade…

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CFTC
February 08, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CFTC files charges in a multi-million dollar futures and forex fraud

Details of the fraudulent scheme The CFTC alleges that W Trade Group and Ramos have misappropriated over $19 million from 220 customers. To maintain the scheme, W Trade Group and Ramos sent customers false account statements showing them purported profits and trading activity, when in fact there was none. The other defendant, Carvajales, conjunction with…

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February 08, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

StoneX sees 21% increase in FX and CFDs revenue in Q1

The diluted earnings per share (EPS) jumped 108% in Q1 to $2.04 per share. FX and CFDs demand The forex and contracts for differences (CFDs) market generated operating revenue of $72.2 million, registering a 21% rise compared to the same period the previous year. StoneX highlighted that this was driven by a $12.1 million increase…

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North Korea steals millions in cyber-attacks for its nuclear missile program
February 08, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

North Korea uses crypto cyber-attacks to fund nuclear missile program

The reports stated that $50 million were stolen from crypto exchanges in North America, Europe and Asia during the period between 2020 and mid-2021. A report from cybersecurity firm Chainalysis was also cited saying that North Korea conducted seven attacks on crypto platforms last year and stole approximately $400 million worth of digital assets. The…

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February 07, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

MAS slaps additional capital requirement on DBS Bank

The regulator highlighted that there are deficiencies in DBS Bank’s incident management and recovery procedures to restore its digital banking services to a normal state, resulting in the prolonged duration of the disruption. The regulator said: MAS noted deficiencies in DBS Bank’s incident management and recovery procedures to restore its digital banking services to a…

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Acquisition
February 07, 2022 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Fiserv sings a definitive agreement to acquire Finxact

Frank Bisignano, President and Chief Executive Officer of Fiserv, said: This transaction complements our Fiserv account processing solutions and expands our opportunities to serve clients by bringing together Finxact’s highly flexible and scalable API-first capabilities with the comprehensive digital financial solutions portfolio and expertise of Fiserv. Through this combination, Fiserv will create a streamlined path…

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