Lak Loi and Vahid Shirani join FlexTrade’s team as Vice Presidents of Sell-Side for EMEA Region LeapRate

April 24, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Lak Loi and Vahid Shirani join FlexTrade's team as Vice Presidents of Sell-Side for EMEA Region

Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade has just announced the latest appointments of Lak Loi and Vahid Shirani as co-heads of sell-side OMS business development for the EMEA region. They both will be based in the company’s London office and will be responsible for expanding the company’s sell-side OMS solutions into the EMEA region.…

April 24, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CMC Markets launches spread bets and CFDs on the US Fang Plus index

Global provider of online trading CMC Markets Plc (LSE:CMCX) has just announced that it now starts offering its clients the ability to spread bet and trade CFDs on the US Fang Plus index, including highly-traded growth stocks such as Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Alibaba and Baidu. Just a week ago, CMC Markets added CFDs trading on…

Tradesocio teams up with Global Prime for deep institutional liquidity

April 24, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Why does liquidity differ between “Prime of Prime’s”?

LeapRate Exclusive... This article is courtesy of Richard Perona, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. Recently at an FX conference, a developing fund manager and I crossed paths. After a few polite introductions, I quickly realized that, based on his audited returns, the new fund manager was proficient in trading the…

Twitter’s $787m earnings beats estimates of $776.1m

April 23, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Twitter’s $787m earnings beating estimates of $776.1m

The social network giant Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) has today released its first-quarter earnings. The numbers crushed expectations, sending the stock surging more than 6 percent in pre-market trading. Highlights include: Revenue: $787 million vs. $776.1 million expected in a Refinitiv survey of analysts Earnings per share: adjusted 37 cents vs. 15 cents expected in the Refinitiv survey…

April 23, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

IS Prime adds CFH Clearing's Paul Jackson to its team as Sales Director

IS Prime, part of ISAM Capital Markets, just announced that it has appointed Paul Jackson as Sales Director. Jackson will be reporting directly to the IS Prime Board. Paul Jackson has over 20 years’ experience in the financial markets including almost 5 years at CFH Clearing where he was a member of the management team,…

Forex sports sponsorship: AETOS partners with Sydney FC

April 23, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Forex sports sponsorship: AETOS and Sydney Football Club join hands

Today Sydney Football Club (Sydney FC) is gearing up for a massive AFC Champions League away game against Chinese Champion Shanghai SIPG at Shanghai Stadium. Councillor Mike Thomas, Senior Vice President of AETOS Capital Group, visited Shanghai to support Sydney FC and to attend an exclusive interview along with the team, Head Coach Steve Corica…

April 22, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Libertex launches new trading asset Lyft

CySEC licensed online trading platform Libertex has announced that it has just launched a new CFD for shares of Lyft Inc. (NASDAQ:LYFT). Lyft has recently raised 24,3 bln USD following its blockbuster IPO at the end of March, 2019. Igor Galkin, Head of Global Business Development and Sales at Libertex Group, commented: Lyft held an…

April 19, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Han Tan joins FXTM team as Market Analyst with a focus on Southeast Asia region

Retail forex broker FXTM has just announced that it has appointed Tan Chung Han (Han Tan) as a new Market Analyst of the FXTM Market Research team, with a focus on Southeast Asia (SEA). Han Tan is a highly experienced financial journalist and producer with more than 6 years of experience gained across local and…

April 19, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Alexander Afanasiev steps down as CEO of Moscow Exchange

Moscow Exchange (MOEX)’s Supervisory Board announced that Alexander Afanasiev will step down from his role as Chief Executive Officer. In line with best corporate governance practices, the Board has engaged in a succession planning process over the last year, supported by professional consultants. The Board has already recommended the appointment of Yury Denisov as CEO,…

April 18, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Spotware's cTrader now open for FX startup brokers

Trading solutions provider Spotware has just announced that cTrader is now a go-to solution for startup brokers. Through cTrader brokers will now be able to gain the existing cTrader market share of millions of traders and other industry participants worldwide. This includes manual and algorithmic traders, investors and strategy providers engaged in copy trading, PAMM…

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