UK-headquartered global fintech firm TigerWit has announced today that it has been accredited with a Financial Services licence from Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission. Financial innovation in Asia and demand for access to financial markets is growing rapidly and Hong Kong is a major global financial hub. Tim Hughes, CEO at TigerWit commented on the…
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Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has released its trading volumes report for the month of December 2019. Total trading volume across Moscow Exchange’s markets was RUB 66.3 trln (December 2018: RUB 72.5 trln). Among the growth leaders are the Equity Market with a 52% rise and the Bond Market, up 54.7% (excluding overnight bonds). Equity & Bond…
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LHV, the fintech focused bank and payment services provider, has just announced that it has commenced providing real-time pound payments via the UK’s Faster Payments scheme. The bank is now providing real time euro payments via Single Euro Payment Area Instant (SEPA Instant) and processing pound (Faster Payments) payments. The pound payments service has been…
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It's been a crazy busy week for the UK watchdog FCA. The regulator has put out details of more unregulated firms this week. The names of the latest additions to the regulator’s warning list are Trade Ltd, Inovestments, YORK CG, Guaranteed Fixed bonds, Fixed Return Investments, Lincoln FX, The Sovereign Bond Fund. According to the…
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The pan-European exchange Euronext has just announced its trading volumes for December 2019. LeapRate reminds that Euronext acquired Oslo Børs VPS last year, therefore the below information includes all Oslo activity from July 2019. Cash trading The average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book was €8,351 million during the last month of…
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European derivatives exchange Eurex has released its volumes report for the month of December earlier this week. Clearing volumes continued their upward trend in the last month of 2019, recording triple digit growth in average daily cleared volumes. Significant increases in volumes were also seen at Eurex Repo and EEX. Despite YoY volumes of traded…
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Australian watchdog ASIC has announced yesterday that it has extended the suspension of the Australian financial services (AFS) licence held by Halifax Investment Services Pty Ltd until 8 January 2021, effective 18 December 2019. The Halifax AFS licence can continue only to ensure that clients of Halifax continue to have access to an external dispute resolution…
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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 FXonspot, The Bond People, Bonds Finder, The Easy Loans, Secure UK Assets, Guy Berna, Omacl Loans Ltd, Shinhan Bank London, and DCDM Strategies. According to the regulator, the fraudsters…
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Exchange holding company Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE) has yesterday released its December monthly and full-year 2019 trading volume. Trading Records Set in 2019 Several trading records were set in 2019. ADV in total options trading at C2 Options Exchange (C2) reached a new all-time high in 2019 with more than 681,000 contracts, up…
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Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has released its trading volumes report for the month of December 2019. You can see the highlights below: FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) The total trading volume of FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) was 1,669,741 ( +15.0% MoM / -30.8% YoY ) and its average daily trading volume was…
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