Broadridge names Michael Alexander President of Wealth Management LeapRate

January 27, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Broadridge names Michael Alexander President of Wealth Management

The fintech company, part of the S&P 500 Index, Broadridge Financial Solutions, announced today its decision to appoint Michael Alexander as President of Wealth Management. The position is newly created and Alexander’s responsibility will be to consolidate Broadridge’s Wealth solutions into integrated, Wealth Management business leader. Alexander will report directly to the President of Global…

January 27, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Weekly forex data preview: Central banks and GDP

The following article was submitted by Michael Stark, market analyst at Exness. The most important events this week for forex markets are the meetings of the Fed and the BoE on Wednesday and Thursday. Other key releases include GDP in the USA and various countries in the eurozone. Last week’s most important scheduled event was…

January 27, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Vertical Knowledge launches Robotic Process Automation to alternative data

Vertical Knowledge, provider of an end-to-end public data platform, announced earlier today that it has launched its latest Robotic Process Automation (RPA) framework. The new framework has been designed for automating internet-based tasks that support accurate, reliable and compliant alternative data and offers the full range of RPA, Intelligent Automated Software (IAS) and Intelligent Automated…

January 27, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: Coronavirus fears, investors are switching liquidity from stocks to safe havens

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for January 27, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: GOLD The gold price has started the week in green. Fears over the coronavirus spreading further are pulling up the price as investors are switching some liquidity from stocks…

January 27, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

OANDA hires Emmanuel Coulon as Chief Technology Officer

Multi-asset trading services and currency data and analytics company, OANDA just announced the appointment of Emmanuel Coulon as Chief Technology Officer. Coulon will be driving OANDA’s global technology strategy. Coulon joins OANDA from ADSS where he served as Global Head of Technology, having previously worked at ICAP, Grupo CIMD and Effix Systems / Reuters. Gavin…

January 24, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Kaber Mclean appointed for CEO of HSBC Australia

HSBC announced on Thursday that Kaber Mclean was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the bank’s Australian office. The lender aims to expands in the region as Hong Kong operations are under pressure of anti-government riots. Mclean has been with HSBC since 1996. For more than two decades of service at the bank, he has…

January 24, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Christopher Woolard – the new Interim Chief Executive of the FCA

FCA announced today that HM Treasury appointed Christopher Woolard as Interim Chief Executive. Woolard is currently Executive Director of Strategy and Competition of FCA and an Executive member of the Board. His predecessor Andrew Bailey left the position to become Governor of the Bank of England. FCA Chairman Charles Randell, said: I’m looking forward to…

January 24, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: Uber strikes electric deal with Nissan

Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for January 24, 2020. In US stocks, after tumbling 3.6% on Wednesday after disappointing on subscriber growth in the US, Netflix surged 7.2% on Thursday. It was boosted by weak results from Comcast, which has plans to get…

January 24, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

BoE: Bank of England could lower rates next week

The following article was written by Alejandro Zambrano, Chief Market Strategist at ATFX UK. With seven days to the January 30 Bank of England rate meeting, the rate markets are anticipating the central bank to ease the interest rate from 0.75% to 0.50% with a likelihood of 61%. Weak GDP growth and comments from the…

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