EU securities markets’ regulator ESMA has just informed the public of its decision that it will not renew the temporary prohibition of the marketing, distribution or sale of binary options to retail clients in the European Union (EU). The complete text of ESMA's decision reads as follows: ESMA has taken product intervention measures regarding binary…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE) announced end of last last week plans to launch futures on the AMERIBOR® (American Interbank Offered Rate) interest rate benchmark on Cboe Futures ExchangeSM (CFE), subject to regulatory review. The new futures are expected to launch on trade date August 16, in honor of the 42nd anniversary of the…
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Bitcoin’s recent display of stable pricing behavior has given way in the past week to turbulent times, once again. Investors are witnessing the volatility to which they had become very accustomed, but just as violent swings in value became the norm, the world’s favorite cryptocurrency has slowly but surely regained its dominance in the crypto…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for July 1, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Hi Everyone, Financial markets are in a good mood today after the leaders of China and the United States…
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Last week Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has released its trading volumes report for the month of June 2019. You can see the highlights below: Interest Rate Futures contracts The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 91,825 ( + 120.5% MoM / + 14.3% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 4,591. 項目 June…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for Leaprate their daily commentary on traditional markets for July 1, 2019. See details below: FOREX The US Dollar rose against other currencies, most noticeably the safe havens Yen and Swiss Franc, during early Monday trading. The good news that, at least for now, there’ll be a truce in the…
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Binary options platform and brokerage group TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) provided the market with an update last week relating to the sale of its shareholding in MarketFinancials Limited (MF). The Company has agreed to extend the completion date of the conditional Share Purchase Agreement (the “SPA“) to sell its entire holdings in MF to 31 August…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for June 28, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. A bit of volatility comes back into the crypto market and everything goes haywire again. The market that was…
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Corporations across the globe have been moving forward on many major internal crypto and blockchain related products and services, not waiting for private token development companies to provide solutions for their specific needs. While most of the newsprint these days has been devoted to the likes of Facebook, Fidelity Investments, and the Bakkt exchange, firms…
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Another busy week for the UK regulator… the FCA has put out details of more firms today. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…
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