Even if you don’t follow the economic news or any news reports at all, you’ve heard about the biggest breakup in modern history – the UK leaving the EU for good. AMarkets have shared their thoughts on this eternal topic in an exclusive piece for LeapRate. Brexit is not another run-of-the-mill separation deal, because two…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for October 24, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Hi Everyone, Of the many takeaways from Zuckerberg's appearance on Capitol Hill yesterday, the one thing that stood out…
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Crypto markets were in disarray, falling nearly 12%, as anticipation built for Mark Zuckerberg to appear before the House Financial Services Committee and defend his Libra Project. Financial markets, at least the ones than handle cryptocurrencies, did not like the uncertainty, but what was certain was that Congressmen were loaded for bear, so to speak.…
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GMO-Z.com Trade UK Limited, the affiliated company of retail forex provider GMO CLICK Securities Inc., has just announced that it has appointed Wei Xu as its Head of Operations. Wei Xu has over a decade of experience in IT systems with a focus on FX market technology. Most recently, he was Head of Operations at…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for October 24, 2019. See details below: FOREX Later today Mario Draghi will deliver his last public performance as head of the ECB. Mr Draghi will be remembered for saving the Euro, with his famous ‘whatever it takes’ speech, in 2012. However,…
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Fortex pioneered the MT Bridge industry 15 years ago and has since built a large installation base with hundreds of FX brokerages. The company frequently gets asked by clients to evaluate whether MT4 or MT5 is more suitable for them, therefore they prepared the following article exclusively for LeapRate. In the retail foreign exchange business,…
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Equiti Group, the parent company of Equiti Capital UK and EGM Futures, has just announced that it has added Dr Gaafar Saleh to its team as a Global Head of Growth. In this newly created role, Dr Saleh will be responsible for the successful scaling up of growth at Equiti. Dr Saleh will also contribute…
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Australian regulator ASIC has yesterday reported on its assessment of the markets operated by Bloomberg Tradebook Australia Pty Ltd (BTA). The Australian watchdog has made recommendations to improve BTA’s arrangements for governance, supervision and enforcement, and systems and controls, as well as to strengthen its arrangements so as to meet increasing regulatory and investor expectations of…
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Parliament stymies Boris Johnson and his Brexit aspirations. Trade talks show no progress, and China releases worst economic data in three decades. A trio of news stories that could wreak havoc in financial markets and send capital fleeing for safe havens, but not to Bitcoin, at least not yet. The world’s favorite digital asset had…
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If there was one action that could catapult Bitcoin awareness through the public masses in the United States, crypto advocates have long asserted that access to a commingled trust, a Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF), would do the trick. This proposition, however, has withered on the vine, as the SEC has chosen to reject every application…
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