Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has released its trading volumes report for the month of August 2019. You can see the highlights below: Interest Rate Futures contracts The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 55,246 ( - 26.8% MoM / - 27.5% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 2,631. 項目 August 2019…
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Cyber crooks are now building networks for other criminals to use for their illicit activities, but law enforcement officials finally got the upper hand on a global construct that had infected roughly 850,000 computers in over 100 countries with malware that acted as a “utility” for general use. French Police, with help from the U.S.…
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Brad Garlinghouse, the outspoken CEO of Ripple, has been under fire of late, and this time it has nothing to do with his calling out the S.W.I.F.T. network and its participating member banks as being archaic when it comes to cross-border payments. There is an ongoing debate with the SEC and one lawsuit over whether…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that they have awarded more than $1.8 million to a whistleblower. The whisteblower alerted SEC about a misconduct committed overseas and provided extensive and ongoing cooperation during the course of the investigation, including the review of documents. The whistleblower in this matter provided stellar information and ongoing assistance…
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The Cyprus regulator CySEC has made a new announcement yesterday regarding the withdrawal of KIT Finance Brokers Ltd's CIF authorisation. KIT Finance Brokers Ltd's CIF authorisation number is 365-18 and, according to the regulator, the company has decided to expressly renounce it earlier this week. This announcement has been officially made on 28 August 2019…
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The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has recently added two more names to its list of unregulated firms. The latest additions are the company Yifu International Futures Co Ltd and the website www.rncapitalalliance.com. According to the regulator, Yifu International Futures is not registered on the New Zealand Financial Service Providers (FSPR) register nor is it associated…
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Moscow Exchange (MOEX) announced yesterday that they have launched zero fee for liquidity consumers on FX Market, effective September 2. An asymmetric maker ("taker") fee will apply to USD/RUB trading with today settlement and a speedbump mechanism (USDRUB_TDB instrument). Liquidity consumers, called 'takers', can now pay zero trading fee while liquidity providers, also named 'makers',…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that it has shut down $300 million fraud perpetrated by San Diego company ANI Development LLC and Its Principal, Gina Champion-Cain. According to the regulator, the company has defrauded approximately 50 retail investors. Back in 2012, ANI Development LLC fraudulently raised hundreds of millions of dollars from investors…
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Forex broker Pepperstone announced that they have launched US share contracts with after-market trading, with no data fees, on their MetaTrader 5 platform. Traders can now take positions on Tesla, Alibaba, Apple, and more big names before market open. Pepperstone's unique US shares offering allows clients to trade in and out of positions after the…
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Over the past two months while Bitcoin has been range bound, there have been a multitude of explanations for its sluggishness and inability to leap forward from its $10,000 perch. As for what could happen next, there are just as many predictions, primarily based on technical interpretations of the pricing “tealeaves”, but at times like…
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