LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate just learned that Andrey Stoychev has been promoted to Executive Director Trading and a Board Member of the multi-asset fintech company JFD Group. Andrey Stoychev has been in the industry business for more than 15 years. He is highly skilled in capital markets, OTC instruments trading and risk management. Stoychev is also…
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Forex and CFD investment company BDSwiss has just announced the launch of its new, user-friendly client portal and the addition of the technical analysis tool Autochartist to their trading tools arsenal. BDSwiss’ new client portal was developed in house, by the company’s software development team and comes as the latest addition to BDSwiss’ trading suite. The new…
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Prime Trust has just been selected by technology solution Velocity Ledger Financial (VL Financial) as its preferred custodian. The two companies will facilitate the issuance and custody of digital assets, supporting the growth of tokenized assets in the new digital economy. VL Financial has applied for a Digital Asset Business Act (DABA) license to operate a Digital Assets…
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CLS today announced that a Japanese pension has officially started using its FX settlement system (CLSSettlement), which also mitigates risk, via State Street Trust and Banking Co., Ltd. CLS is an important player within the global Forex markets where it provides data and processing solutions as well as FX settlement services. This is the first…
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Options, a provider of private cloud services targeted at capital markets stakeholders globally, yesterday launched a unique in-house technical training school dubbed “Options University”. The main goal of Options University is to equip its employees with additional technical training; both current and recently recruited staff at its Belfast office are allowed to join the academy.…
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FCA regulated liquidity solutions search tool LiquidityFinder Ltd just announced that Global Prime Pty Ltd has joined its interactive website www.liquidityfinder.com. Recently retail forex broker FXCM Group, LLC has announced that FXCM Pro, the institutional arm of the business, has also joined LiquidityFinder's website. Global Prime Pty Ltd is an ASIC regulated Prime of Prime Broker based…
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QuantHouse just announced that the FastMatch consolidated central market data product, the FX Tape, is now available on the QuantHouse API Ecosystem store. FastMatch announced the launch of FX Tape back in September 2017 and opened it up to the general public two months later. LeapRate reminds that retail FX broker FXCM Group joined the FastMatch FX Tape…
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Online trading broker ATFX (UK) has just announced the launch of four new trading instruments, adding the most popular and largest cryptocurrencies in the world by market cap quoted against USD, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and XRP by Ripple labs. The trading instruments are now available to Buy and Sell as CFDs through the online multi-asset…
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Copenhagen-based online broker Saxo Bank today announced a record profit of DKK 955.8 million (roughly $145 million) for 2018, which is a 138% increase to the 2017 profit figures. The Group reported an increase in client deposits to a record high of DKK 112.6 billion ($17m) while its operating income came in at DKK 2.8…
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LeapRate Exclusive... Global FinTech company Gold-i just announced that it has promoted Mark Alvarez-Buylla to its new Head of Operations. Alvarez-Buylla’s promotion coincides with the creation of a new operations team at Gold-i with a focus on onboarding projects for large scale new clients, product installations, internal systems and account management. The global FinTech company has recently…
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