Online gaming and financial trading company Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) announced that on 04 March 2019 it purchased a total of 239,482 of its ordinary shares of no par value each (the "ordinary shares") on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) through the Company's broker Goodbody Stockbrokers UC as detailed below. The repurchased shares will be cancelled. Number of…
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Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced its February 2019 volumes. ADV volumes came at $34,835, down 9.2% MoM, but up 21% YoY, in the shortest month of the year. ADV figures for February are based on 20 trading days (in comparison to 22 days in January 2019). FXSpotStream's total volume was $696,702 last month.…
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Celsius Network, a borrowing and lending platform for cryptocurrencies, today announced that Samantha McDonald, CPA, has joined the company as CFO. McDonald has wide experience in the financial services and investment industries. She started her career at Deloitte as a senior accountant after graduating with a masters in accounting before moving on to become CFO…
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TradingScreen Inc. (TS), an order and execution management system (OEMS) for all asset classes, yesterday revealed a strategic collaboration with BIDS Trading (BIDS), a U.S Alternative Trading System (ATS) that also powers the European Cboe LIS. The new alliance will allow market participants on the buy-side to access the biggest U.S. block liquidity provider as…
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FX brokerage group GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP), which operates the FOREX.com and City Index retail forex brands, has released its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2018. The full year report showed massive improvement as compared to last year. The Q4 highlights are: Net revenues grew to $79.9 million as compared to $62.7 million in…
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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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