Category: Forex

Jamie Beadle Investoo
August 28, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FX affiliate Investoo adds Jamie Beadle as COO, James McCarthy as GC

Fast-growing FX and cryptocurrency affiliate company Investoo Group has continued to build its senior management team, announcing two more senior hires. Just a few days after we had reported that Investoo hired Worldpay VP James Beale as Chief Finance Officer, the company has announced the appointment of Jamie Beadle (pictured above) as Chief Operating Officer, and…

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Broctagon Prime switches to MetaTrader 5
August 27, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Broctagon Prime switches to MetaTrader 5

The Cyprus-based broker Broctagon Prime has just announced that it starts offering its clients the fifth-generation multi-asset trading platform MetaTrader 5 developed by MetaQuotes Software. Broctagon Prime is licensed by CySEC and is fully compliant with the regulations of Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). The company specializes in Spot FX and Commodities to continually…

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Dukascopy adds new CFD bonds and indices for trading on LIVE
August 24, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Dukascopy adds new CFD bonds and indices for trading on LIVE

Geneva based Retail FX broker and bank Dukascopy has just announced that has extended the list of its CFD tradable instrument by introducing CFDs on Bonds. This new type of tradable instrument will see the introduction of German government bond (BUND.TR/EUR) and UK government bond (UKGILT.TR/GBP) at first, with the list of tradable bonds to…

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LeapRate interview: Defense against toxic flow, Jeff Wilkins speaks
August 24, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany releases baseline report

The Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany has issued its baseline report presenting an inventory of sustainability activities at the financial centre of Frankfurt/Main. The report is the first publication from this cluster, created in spring 2018 in a merger between the Green Finance Cluster Frankfurt of the Hessian Ministry of Economics and the Accelerating…

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Hong Kong SFC
August 24, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

SFC launches investor identification for northbound trading

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has announced that it has reached an agreement with the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to implement an investor identification regime for northbound trading under Mainland-Hong Kong Stock Connect on 17 September 2018. The investor identification regime will facilitate more effective monitoring and surveillance by the CSRC…

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Torstone Technology expands its London headquarters
August 24, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Chinese-owned UK Forex broker Global Markets Group hires Alex Iakobachvili as CEO

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated startup Retail FX brokerage Global Markets Group Limited has hired FX industry executive Alex Iakobachvili as the company's new Managing Director and CEO. Alex Iakobachvili joins Global Markets Group from Global Markets Index Limited (or GMI UK, despite the similar name no relationship to his new employer) where…

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CFI london Launched
August 24, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

CFI opens London office headed by former Fixi CEO Richard Wynn

Credit Financier Invest (CFI) Ltd has announced today the launching of its branch in the UK, after acquiring the necessary regulatory authorisations (which we had reported on in June) and the completion of other preparations. CFI’s offices will be located at 70 Gracechurch Street, London. CFI has chosen to be located in the city’s financial district, recognised globally as a…

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roboforex office
August 23, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

RoboForex enables depositing to BTC accounts with other cryptocurrencies

RoboForex, the Belize-based unit of the Retail FX brokerage group, has announced that it has launched a new service which will allow the company’s clients to deposit funds to their Bitcoin accounts (BTC accounts) by means of other cryptocurrencies. The sum deposited in alternative cryptocurrencies will be automatically converted into BTC according to the exchange rate…

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