ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for September 11, 2019. See details below: FOREX The Euro is losing ground to the Dollar, as the European Wednesday session gets under way. After holding steady at the beginning of the week, as investors sat tight awaiting the ECB meeting which…
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CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has just published its operating metrics for the month of August 2019. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.75 trillion – no change from USD1.75 trillion in July 2019. Average daily traded volume submitted to CLS by product…
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Australian regulator announced earlier this week that it has suspended the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of Queensland-based financial services provider Financial Options Pty Ltd. The licence is suspended until 26 February 2020. According to the regulator, Financial Options was not meeting its obligations as an AFS licensee. The company has failed to have a dispute…
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We are into the ninth month of the year, and we are still waiting patiently for the SEC to approve a Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF). Yes, the VanEck consortium decided to forego the retail market for now and launch a Bitcoin Trust for institutional investors only, but the SEC is still pondering what to do…
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LeapRate Exclusive... Paul Jackson has over 20 years’ experience in the financial markets including almost 5 years at CFH Clearing where he was a member of the management team, with responsibility for assembling and managing sales. Prior to CFH, he used to work at LMAX Exchange and CMC Markets as well as over a decade…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for September 10, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Today's Highlights Parliament is Out of Order 5G Portfolio Some added Pressures Please note: All data, figures & graphs…
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After more than one decade, Bitcoin continues to be the market leader according to its share of overall crypto market capitalization. Yes, dominance dropped drastically during 2017, when altcoin development projects flooded the market, but Bitcoin had clawed its way back to a 50% share by the close of 2018. It remained so until this…
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QuantHouse, the global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions, announced that Goldman Sachs’ SIGMA X MTF market data will be readily accessible from within the QuantHouse API Ecosystem store. SIGMA X MTF is a multilateral trading facility operated by Goldman Sachs (GS), offering deep and diverse liquidity on the basis of non-discretionary crossing with flow…
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UK-headquartered global financial technology company TigerWit teamed up with the Liverpool FC Foundation several months ago in order to support the club’s Premier League Works employability program. The company plans to drive the initiative forward into 2020 following the successful training of eleven 18-25-year olds who took part in a range of activities aimed at…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for September 10, 2019. See details below: FOREX/ BREXIT The Pound is on the backfoot, losing ground to the Dollar, as Tuesday’s session gets under way. Today’s sterling losses follow the gains recorded yesterday, after another day of turmoil in Westminster. As…
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