Nasdaq completes acquisition of eVestment LeapRate

October 24, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nasdaq completes acquisition of eVestment

Nasdaq (Nasdaq:NDAQ) today announced the completion of its acquisition of eVestment, a content and analytics provider used by asset managers, investment consultants and asset owners to help facilitate institutional investment decisions. Nasdaq entered into an agreement to acquire eVestment in September. The deal will further enhance Nasdaq’s robust Global Information Services business by allowing the…

October 23, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters launches Knowledge Graph Feed

Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) is the first major information provider to release a Knowledge Graph Feed for the Financial Services market. Using verified Big Data management principles and machine learning techniques, the Thomson Reuters Knowledge Graph provides a trusted data source and model for customers to leverage, build their enterprise solutions on top of and benefit…

October 23, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FinTech Association of Hong Kong appoints Interim General Manager

The FinTech Association of Hong Kong (FTAHK) has announced that Syed Musheer Ahmed has been appointed as its Interim General Manager. Musheer has an extensive background in financial services and technology. He is a global markets trading and strategy consulting professional with cross-functional, multi-asset, international experience in financial services, with a strong understanding of financial…

October 23, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CMA and SAGIA sign Memorandum of Cooperation

The Capital Market Authority (CMA) and the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (the Memorandum) to set up a collaborative framework to be followed by the CMA and SAGIA when preparing the regulatory directives for allowing non-resident strategic foreign investors to own strategic stakes in listed companies’ share capital,…

October 23, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TradingScreen's majority shareholders renew call for a change in leadership

A group stating that it represents the board members and shareholders representing the majority of the common shareholders of TradingScreen renewed today their request for a change in leadership at the company, and published a summary of the main legal actions faced by TradingScreen's current management. The "majority shareholder group" stated that it condemns what it…

October 22, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FX Industry Week Review: Binary Options police raid, CEO changes at Saxo UK and Pepperstone, and lots more…

Once again, all the key Forex Industry News stories appeared this past week only at LeapRate. (Or, were soon after copied by other blogs :-) ). Which longtime IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) executive was hired as the new CEO of leading Australia Retail FX broker Pepperstone? Which major city held a coordinated police raid on…

October 20, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bank BPS chooses Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX platform

Warsaw-based Bank Polskiej Spóldzielczosci SA (Bank BPS) announced that it has chosen Wolters Kluwer’s OneSumX for Risk and OneSumX for Regulatory Reporting to provide an integrated risk and regulatory reporting solution following a competitive tender process. Bank BPS has chosen to use the OneSumX solution for static and dynamic projection analysis, liquidity reporting, interest rate…

October 20, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Exness presents partnership agreement with Real Madrid at Santiago Bernabéu

Exness Marketing Director, Igor Rudi, alongside director of Institutional Relations for Real Madrid, Emilio Butragueño, and first team players Benzema, Kroos, Vallejo and Achraf, presented the partnership agreement signed between the FCA and CySEC regulated retail forex broker Exness and the iconic football club just over two months ago. Another partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo was announced right after. The event, which took…

October 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Institutional FX platform True Trade goes live

LeapRate Exclusive... After some initial growing pains which included the departures of CEO Klaus Buhl and COO Ashraf Agha, LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated institutional FX provider True Trade (truetrademarkets.com) has gone live. Institutional clients have begun trading trading FX on (Phase 1) of True Trade’s new proprietary execution platform. True Trade provides clients with…

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