BT today announced a strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a move that reinforces its position as a driving force in cloud services and will help customers fully reap the benefits of AWS in the UK and around the globe. The announcement represents a significant milestone in the evolution of BT’s ‘Cloud of…
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Customer marketing and retention specialist Optimove announced that it has released Optimove 6.0, introducing a new customer lifecycle stage to its product: the visitor. Users can now automate targeted marketing campaigns for new visitors as precisely as they can for customers who have already made a purchase. Optimove claims that its new product will not…
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Distributed ledger consortium R3 and 22 of its member banks have announced a cross-border payments platform built on top of the company's Corda technology. Centered around the concept of creating digitized versions of fiat currencies that can be exchanged and transferred between different parties, the effort has seen involvement from banks including Barclays, BBVA, CIBC…
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FCA regulated multi asset prime brokerage Divisa Capital, part of the Equiti Group, has announced the launch of its new proprietary trading platform, Divisa Vault. We had reported back in September about the impending launch of Divisa's new trading platform, when Divisa hired Sammy Christou from London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG) as its new head of…
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Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) today announced it will expand its base metals offering with the introduction of a new Copper Premium Grade A CIF Shanghai (Metal Bulletin) futures contract to begin trading on November 20, 2017. Pending regulatory approvals, the new contract will be available for trading on CME Globex and for…
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Retail forex broker FXTM just informed that it now offers clients the opportunity to trade CFDs on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin against the US dollar (BTC/USD, ETH/USD, LTC/USD). The launch of this product coincides with a recent surge in demand for digital currencies. The implementation of Bitcoin's SegWit2x solution on the 1st August, designed to…
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B3 informed that it has offset 4,782.72 tons of CO2 equivalent, related to its 2016 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions not liable to be reduced, thus becoming a "carbon neutral" company for another year. To offset this amount of CO2, 4,783 carbon credits, called CERs (Certified Emission Reductions) and generated under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)…
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Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) just keeps on rolling. In a summer quarter in which a number of its competitors have reported tepid operating and financial results citing low currency volatility and a "typical" slow summer vacation trading season, CFD broker Plus500 followed up its record Q2 with an even better set of results for Q3. After…
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New Innovative Service Is Designed Exclusively for the Do-It-Yourself Business Traveler The Wall Street Journal today announced the launch of The Wall Street Journal Business Travel Service, a new online travel service designed exclusively for the 20 million “do-it-yourself” (DIY) business travelers. The new service makes it possible for DIY business travelers in the U.S.…
Read moreHSBC Holdings plc (NYSE:HSBC) announced its 3Q 2017 Earnings Release. The highlights include: Financial performance Reported profit before tax for 9M17 of $14.9bn was $4.3bn or 41% higher than for 9M16, in part reflecting favourable movements in significant items, which included a loss on sale and trading results of the operations in Brazil that we…
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