Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for April 10, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Highlights include: Bitcoin Testing $5k: Bitcoin broke below its resistance at $5,350 and is testing the historically important figure…
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Canada’s alternative asset management company Integrated Asset Management Corp. (IAM) (TSX:IAM) announced that it has just closed a $22,000,000 senior secured term loan to Lagasco Inc. Lagasco is going to use IAM's provided funds to purchase a portfolio of producing oil & gas assets located in Southwestern Ontario from a Limited Partnership. LeapRate reminds that…
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Integral has announced that Arab Bank (Switzerland) Ltd. has deployed a trading app built on the Integral BankFX Platform to expand mobile trading services to their institutional and corporate customers. Arab Bank is a trusted partner to established businesses with strong ties in the MENA region and is providing a powerful, end-to-end FX solution to its…
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Cobalt, the foreign exchange (FX) infrastructure based on shared ledger and high performance technology, has just announced that it has appointed Stephen Wolff as a Strategic Advisor to support its global growth strategy. Wolff has served on the board of numerous financial market technology and infrastructure companies including R3, Tradeweb and ClearCourse Partnership. He also…
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Mati Greenspan, Senior Market Analyst at FX broker eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for April 10, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Highlights include: Token Taxonomy Act Underwhelms: A crypto-friendly bill has been reintroduced to Congress, but the new version does…
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CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has published its operating metrics for the month of March 2019. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.86 trillion up 8% from USD1.73 trillion in February 2019. CLS Group has recently reported its annual volumes and shared…
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Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade has just announced that it has teamed up with the operating system (OS) of finance OpenFin. The partnership will improve workflow management for buy-side traders using FlexTrade’s execution management system FlexTRADER and its cloud-based trading system FlexNOW. FlexTRADER has operated an open architecture model for many years, ensuring…
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has elected three new members to DTCC’s Board of Directors during its Annual Shareholders Meeting. The DTCC Board of Directors is currently comprised of 20 Directors. The new directors are Kieran Hanrahan, Managing Director in J.P. Morgan Chase’s Corporate and Investment Bank, Graeme McEvoy, Managing Director in the…
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CySEC regulated Forex and CFD investment company BDSwiss has just announced that it has launched MetaTrader 5 with hedging options. BDSwiss' clients will now be able to trade 250 financial instruments using the desktop and mobile platform versions for Windows, iOS and Android. BDSwiss shared that it will add more underlying instruments soon and will…
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Post-trade securities and derivatives processing technology provider Torstone Technology has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Percentile. Torstone has recently announced that it has expanded its London headquarters, following a revenue increase of over 50% year on year. The next step in the company's expansion is Percentile' acquisition, giving the firm the…
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