Category: Experts

April 26, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

How Sport Sponsorship is delivering immediate ROI for Blockchain brands

The following article was written by Stephen Pearson, CEO of Sports Media Gaming Ltd (SMG). SMG is a leading international sports marketing agency and has been at the forefront of brokering recent blockchain sports sponsorships. Stephen has held Board roles at UEFA Champions League and English Premier League. Sports sponsorship is fast becoming the staple marketing platform…

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April 26, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Pressure mounts on UK banks as PPI deadline inches closer

The following article was written by Kamran Mirshahi, founder and director of the leading PPI claims company, Canary Claims. The beginning of April saw the Financial Conduct Authority release its latest PPI deadline advertisement. The first announcement of the deadline last August has encouraged UK consumers to check if they were mis-sold PPI. Some policies…

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April 25, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Understanding MiFID II National IDs

The following article was written by Quinn Perrott, General Manager of  regulatory and compliance solutions provider TRAction Fintech. Natural person identifiers are an important part of transaction reporting and contain some complexity in their application due to the variety of identifiers available. It’s widely-known that corporate counterparties need to be identified by their legal entity…

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April 22, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

UFX.com Weekly Trading Review: Amazon's AWS Blockchain Templates, Netflix earns $3.7B

Your Weekly Trading Review by UFX.com – Sunday, April 22, 2018 Here are some of this past week’s leading economic news and events that affected the financial markets: Amazon Launches "AWS Blockchain Templates" Amazon’s web services developed a new technology known as  "AWS Blockchain Templates". The new blockchain templates will make the process of creating projects based…

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April 18, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

The Rise and Fall of Crypto or Just Another Swing?

The following article was written by AMarkets, a St. Vicent & the Grenadines (FSA) regulated global forex broker established in 2007. Cryptocurrencies are well established in the portfolios of private investors, who, unlike institutional funds, do not fear huge volatility and vulnerability to speculation. The same thing that attracts new investors is, at the same…

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April 12, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

The importance of an FCA license - FXTM's Martin Couper speaks

We had reported back in February that Retail FX and CFDs broker FXTM has received a license from the FCA for a new UK-based subsidiary Forextime UK Limited, and was launching a London-based operation. Why add the FCA license to a broker already licensed in several jurisdictions, including the EU (Cyprus)? We're pleased to present…

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April 12, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Facebook and Google are purging Crypto ads: Is Bitcoin slated for doom?

The following article was written by Amram Margalit, content manager at Leverate. Barely a month after reaching its five-figure mark for the first time, Bitcoin cemented its glory year in 2017 by reaching $20,000. This meteoric rise in Bitcoin value brought it, along with other cryptocurrencies, into mainstream consciousness. However, that all-time high was short lived, with…

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April 10, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

How to get an LEI number if you don’t have a LOU (Local Operating Unit) in your country

The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. The global push for greater transparency in financial markets continues to gain traction with top tier regulators now requiring that all entities, engaged in trading financial markets, report their LEI (Legal Entity Identifier) number to regulatory repositories.…

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