Category: Forex

Blueberry Markets website
February 02, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Blueberry Markets hires AxiTrader and Royal Financial FX sales exec Ben Clay

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Australian Retail FX broker Blueberry Markets has added to its business development team, recruiting Ben Clay, a senior executive from Royal Financial Trading’s Australian operation. He had also spent seven years as a senior sales trader at AxiTrader. Ben Clay joins Dean Hyde and Tim Mansell as the latest high…

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LMAX Exchange trading floor
February 01, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

LMAX Exchange buys out Paddy Power Betfair stake for £21.9M with Silicon Valley Bank funding

Institutional FX exchange provider LMAX Exchange Group has announced that it has completed an equity purchase of Paddy Power Betfair plc’s remaining stake in the business. The 31.35% stake (or 187,811 shares) was bought from Paddy Power Betfair for £21.945 million, valuing LMAX Exchange at £70 million. The buyback brings 95% of the company under the control…

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FlexTrade integrates ipushpull platform into FlexNOW EMS
February 01, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FlexTrade hires State Street FX Connect veteran Paul Alves as SVP Business Development

Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade today announced the appointment of Paul Alves as Senior Vice President, Global FX Business Development, with a focus on expanding the company’s buy-side trading solutions to asset managers. According to Alves, automation efficiency, execution flexibility and cost conciseness for both the asset manager and their bank partners, are…

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February 01, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Venzee Technologies and BTL Group Ltd announce partnership

Venzee Technologies Inc.(CVE:VENZ) announced a partnership with BTL Group Ltd (CVE:BTL) that will bring together the Company's data transformation solution, Mesh, with BTL's blockchain development platform, Interbit™. Using artificial intelligence, Mesh is able to import, merge and transform data from existing systems before writing to blockchain networks, greatly simplifying the process of integrating blockchain networks…

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February 01, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Clearstream's new partnership explores potential of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing

Clearstream, University of Luxembourg and consulting firm escent launch joint research project Post-trade services provider Clearstream, part of Deutsche Börse Group, just announced that it has entered a collaborative research partnership with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg. Over the next four years, a joint research project…

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February 01, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

B2Broker launches cryptocurrency gateway, opens Malaysia office

Russia-based integrator B2Broker announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with a partner in Malaysia aimed at bolstering its presence in the Asian region. The company has announced that Yogeshwaran Chandra Dash, its new Malaysian partner, a native of Kuala Lumpur with over 10 years experience in the financial market, is tasked with developing…

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Mushegh Tovmasyan Divisa Capital
February 01, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Divisa Capital-Equiti Group founder Mushegh Tovmasyan joins institutional crypto startup XTRADE.io as a strategic advisor

Institutional cryptocurrency startup XTRADE.io has announced that Divisa Capital / Equiti Group founder Mushegh Tovmasyan has joined the company as a strategic advisor. XTRADE.io is a technology company founded by veteran Wall Street trading specialists. The company plans to introduce a new infrastructure that would allow banks, hedge funds, and large institutional traders to easily access…

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February 01, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

MetaQuotes partners with Akamai for MT5 server DDoS protection

Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes just announced that it has added the functionality of using third-party Anti-DDoS services. The new Anti DDoS Proxy Server component, allows brokers to shift the burden of blocking unwanted connections, to a third-party vendor's server network. When using an Anti DDoS Proxy Server, all clients are connected to the provider's…

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