FCA and CySEC licensed Retail FX broker Exness has reported a 5% rise in FX trading volumes for the month of September 2018, following a relatively slow summer trading season. September volumes came in at $349.1 billion at Exness, versus $331.9 billion in August. The $349.1 billion figure represented Exness' fourth best ever month, behind just March-April-May…
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BitMEX, a crypto-coin trading platform, has just informed that it has appointed regulatory expert Angelina Kwan to the role of Chief Operating Officer. Kwan previously served as Managing Director and Head of Regulatory Compliance for Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX). She will be responsible for overseeing and driving the company’s growth, while guiding…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that London based spreadbetting and CFDs broker Capital Index has made an application to voluntarily give up its CySEC CIF license. The company had first received its CySEC license in 2014, and soon after the company expanded to the UK with an FCA license in 2015. Apparently with the FCA license (recently…
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Derivatives marketplace CME Group has just released its trading volumes for the month of September and has reached average daily volume (ADV) of 17.5 million contracts per day during September 2018, up 3 percent from September 2017. Open interest at the end of September was 120 million contracts, up 6 percent from September 2017 and…
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Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for accelerated end-to-end payments processing, has announced that Qatar Islamic Bank UK plc (QIB) has selected VolPay Channel: Open Banking and Token to implement PSD2 compliance for the bank. Building upon Volante’s partnership with Token who provide PSD2 compliant APIs, VolPay Channel: Open Banking will deliver a…
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Genesis Proprietary Trading, an Australian proprietary trading company, and Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global provider of high-performance professional trading software, have just announced Genesis has contracted with Trading Technologies to use the TT futures trading platform. With this agreement, Genesis’ proprietary traders have access to TT’s fully integrated suite of cutting-edge functionality for…
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Forex and CFD technology solutions provider Spotware Systems has just announced that it has released a new copy trading service, cTrader Copy, which replaces cMirror, and now functions as a flexible investment program and a fully integrated feature of its flagship trading platform, cTrader. The cTrader Copy has taken the best of its predecessor, while…
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Today, women hold just 18% of positions on the boards of the 3,000 largest publicly traded corporations in the U.S., according to CNBC. In 2017, 624 public companies had no women on their boards at all. California has just become the first state to require publicly held corporations headquartered in the state to include women…
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London based global commodities broker Marex Spectron has announced its formal return to the foreign exchange markets, with the launch of a new FX platform offering that includes a sophisticated desktop and mobile app for FX and precious metal spot trading and market monitoring. Through the platform offering, FX intelligent execution services are provided for…
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LeapRate Exclusive... After posting a loss of £2.7 million in 2016 which was then followed by the departure of longtime CEO Andrew Edwards and the subsequent appointment of Arman Tahmassebi to the company's top management spot, LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated broker ETX Capital was able to turn things around in 2017, posting a modest profit of…
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