Occasionally, there are success stories that sound too good to be true, especially when the story involves a “pioneer” that risked treading where all before had feared to even try. In this case, we have Silvergate Bank, a unique financial institution based in San Diego, California, whose executive team consciously decided to serve the underserved…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for November 15, 2019. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX The US dollar is finding support and gaining ground on the traditional safe-haven assets, such as the Japanese yen, during the early part of Friday’s session. The market…
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The Cyprus regulator CySEC has announced that it has decided to withdraw the CIF licence of a company named Fidelisco Capital Markets Ltd. The regulator shared that, at its meeting of 8th November 2019, has decided, pursuant to section 8(1)(a) of the Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law of 2017 and section 4(7)…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of several unregulated firms. The names of the latest additions to the regulator’s warning list are JP Morgan Asset Management and Switch Finance. According to the regulator, the fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics to scam people…
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Bitcoin giveth and taketh away, like no other asset class before it, but analysts keep searching for Bitcoin’s “twin”, assuming that one might exist from another era that would provide an insight into the future price behavior of the world’s favorite digital asset. This search is not some kind of new age, outside of the…
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INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: INTL) has announced earlier this week that the Broker-Dealer Division of its wholly owned subsidiary, INTL FCStone Financial Inc., released a new interactive Canadian equity trading platform called Maple Live. The company's Canadian subsidiary, INTL FCStone Financial (Canada) Inc. has recently become a member in the category of futures commission merchant…
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The freelancing eco-system has come of age over the past decade. Originally, the users of these global contractor job sites were considered “misfits” or outcasts from the corporate mainstream, but the “digital nomad rocketship” has taken flight. In the U.S. alone, recent studies peg 36% of the U.S. workforce, some 57 million people, as freelancers,…
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Canadian regulator BCSC has recently issued a warning against the company Edu-Pension and its website http://www.edu-pension.com. According to the watch dog, the company claims to be based in Toronto, Ontario, and offers forex and cryptocurrency trading. BCSC, however, recently became aware that Edu-Pension accepted funds from a British Columbia (BC) resident. The company is not…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for November 14, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Hi Everyone, The economic landscape has undergone a radical swing from an expected recession to a somewhat stable footing…
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We live in a digital age, where the ability to send instant messages resides in our hands via our various smart phones and smart devices. The mechanism rests in the coding of a variety of “apps” on the market. This apps market is highly competitive. You need only conduct a simple Internet search to arrive…
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