BTL Group Ltd. (CVE:BTL) announced that it has hired a Head of Marketing, Stella Hall, and Business Development Manager, Jonathan Jones, as the firm commences its sales and marketing drive to bring its proprietary blockchain platform Interbit to market. We are looking for exceptional sales and marketing people to join our team and help build…
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Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ:FISV), a global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced that LuLu Exchange, which provides cross-border remittance, currency exchange and other financial services for consumers and businesses, has selected Fiserv to enhance its financial crime prevention capabilities and enable its expansion into new markets. LuLu Exchange will implement a cloud-based version of…
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UK FCA regulated global provider of FX and CFD brokerage services Tickmill announced that has become a sponsor of SK Kadrina, an Estonian wrestling team which participated in an international wrestling competition in Arad, Israel. The tournament was held from 31 October until 6 November 2017 in memory of Lieutenant Hanan Barak and attracted hundreds…
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In what is a usually quiet pre-Christmas-break week, Forex Industry News at LeapRate was anything but. ESMA's surprise move to cut maximum leverage allowed in CFD trading shook the industry, eliciting a lot of industry reaction, and hit hard the shares of publicly traded brokers including IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG), Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS), and CMC Markets…
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FCA regulated Retail Forex, CFDs and Spread Betting broker London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG) has announced that it plans to delist the company's shares from trading on the London Stock Exchange's AIM market. LCG didn't give an exact date for the delisting, just that it would convene a shareholders meeting to vote on the matter…
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TAB just announced that it has partnered with Thomson Reuters Labs. TAB's data analysis brings insight to the next generation of finance industry, the online marketplace. TAB data shows that the amount raised through online finance marketplaces has been doubling almost every year since 2012 and, excluding China, has exceeded $35B in 2017 to date,…
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MetaTrader 5 is developing rapidly. Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes just announced that it has added a number of new tools and services to the platform. No such innovations will ever be implemented into MetaTrader 4, the company added. The new release features an ability to create synthetic financial instruments. Activation of this feature requires…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that a new CySEC CIF license has been granted to a company called A.N. Allnew Investments Ltd, controlled by former XForex executive Jad Abdel Rahman. Under the new license, the company has launched a new Retail FX brand called LegacyFX, at websites legacyfx.com and for EU based clients at legacyfx.eu. The…
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BlockEx just announced that Ronald Martin has just joined the company as COO. Ronald Martin, former Executive in Residence at Bain Capital Ventures, leaves the traditional financial world to bring his financial platform experience to the blockchain. Martin brings years of experience in FinTech and SaaS as former Senior Vice President & General Manager of…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that learned that Simon Henry has resigned his position as Compliance Officer of FCA regulated Goldenway Global Investments (UK) Limited, which operates the GWFX Global retail FX and CFD brokerage brand (at gwfxglobal.com). Simon Henry, GWFX Simon Henry was hired by GWFX just three months ago from London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG), where…
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