ANZ Bank New Zealand today announced that it has signed a statement of commitment to the FX Global Code of Conduct, set to come into effect in May 2018. The code is a single set of global principles which define good practice for the wholesale FX market. In signing the statement ANZ has reinforced its…
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FCA regulated CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) just announced that the Monetary Authority of Singapore has granted Plus500SG Pte. Ltd. a Capital Markets Services license for dealing in securities and leveraged foreign exchange trading. The grant of the Capital Markets Services license reflects the scalability of the Company both from a business and a regulatory…
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Which FX broker is the latest to get a CySEC CIF license? Which China-backed, FCA-licensed ECN broker launched in London? Why was the FXDD-IronFX merger called off? What major change did Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) make to its Affiliate program? Answers to these questions and more appeared exclusively or first at LeapRate this week. Some of our…
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Global Brokerage, Inc. (NASDAQ:GLBR), formerly known as FXCM Inc, announced today that it has notified The NASDAQ Stock Market (Nasdaq) of its intention to voluntarily withdraw its Class A common stock, par value $0.01 (the "Common Stock"), from listing on The NASDAQ Capital Market (the "Exchange"). Global Brokerage intends to file a Form 25, Notification…
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Tallinn, Estonia based Retail FX brokerage group Admiral Markets has announced the commencement of a planned €5 million capital raise, via an offering of unsecured subordinated bonds. The public offering of unsecured subordinated bonds is arranged by Admiral Markets AS and the subscription period runs from December 8-19, 2017. The issue is targeted both to…
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A public offering of subordinated bonds by the online trading provider Admiral Markets AS commenced today, 8 December 2017. In the same Nasdaq Tallinn has started the procedure of listing the bonds of Admiral Markets AS on the Baltic Bond List, following the company’s respective application yesterday. The bond issue’s volume is €5m, as announced…
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New solution helps reduce forward-looking and survivorship bias in the buy-side community Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) has further strengthened its solutions portfolio for quantitative analysis with the launch of I/B/E/S Point in Time (Point in Time), which offers the buy-side another powerful tool for financial backtesting and historical analysis. Point in Time is built on the…
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TP ICAP plc (LON:TCAP) has announced the appointment of Michael C Heaney as an independent Non-Executive Director. This follows the decision by the Board, as outlined in the 2016 Annual Report, to recruit a new Non‐Executive Director from the Americas. Heaney, an American national based in New York, has extensive experience of North America in…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that London based FX and CFDs broker ETX Capital has stayed internal to replace its recently departed longtime CEO Andrew Edwards, promoting COO Arman Tahmassebi to the CEO position at the company. As was exclusively reported at LeapRate at the beginning of November, Andrew Edwards surprised a lot of people…
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Continuing a very strong month of November we have seen at some of the world’s leading FX and CFD brokers, Copenhagen based multi asset broker Saxo Bank has released figures indicating that November was indeed its best month of the year so far, with the most trading activity seen since November 2016, the month of the…
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