Bloomberg and Bats Europe announce joint initiative on MIFID II reporting LeapRate

April 21, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bloomberg and Bats Europe announce joint initiative on MIFID II reporting

Bloomberg and Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, have announced they plan to provide Bloomberg customers with the ability to use their respective Approved Publication Arrangements (APA) to fulfil MiFID II transparency reporting requirements. Under MiFID II, market participants are facing a steep increase of reporting tasks they need to manage, for…

April 21, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Darwinex parent company Tradeslide grows revenues to $1 million, monthly volume $8 billion

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings made in the UK that FCA regulated broker Tradeslide Trading Tech Limited, which operates the Darwinex.com forex social and copy trading network, has seen a nice bump in Revenues and Profits during its second full year of operation. Darwinex Revenues grew from just €146,500 in 2015 to…

April 21, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC signs fintech Cooperation Agreement with OJK to promote innovation in financial services

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and Indonesia's Otoritas Jasa Keuangan (OJK) have entered a Cooperation Agreement to promote innovation in financial services in their respective markets. The agreement, signed today in Melbourne, establishes a framework for cooperation between OJK and ASIC in the expanding space of innovation in financial services, agreeing to share…

April 21, 2017 BY admin

NEX SEF approved by CFTC allowing EBS customers to trade Forex NDFs

NEX Group plc (LON: NXG) formerly known as ICAP plc, a UK-based business focused on electronic markets and post trade business, announced today that it has received approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for NEX SEF Limited (NEX SEF), a new Swap Execution Facility (SEF). NEX SEF will allow customers to trade Non-Deliverable…

April 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

GCMFX posts bankruptcy reasons, which tell just half the story

The REAL story apparently involves Czech police, organized crime investigators, frozen assets, offshore companies, and suspicions of fraud and money laundering.

April 20, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Oil price slide set to weigh on European open

UK markets saw a rather divergent performance yesterday with the FTSE100 slipping back and in the process dropping into negative territory for the year, while the FTSE250 rebounded strongly after its losses on Tuesday. The following post is courtesy of CMC Markets. While the recent rally in the pound may well be a factor in the…

April 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Hong Kong forex broker KVB Kunlun warns of Q1-2017 loss

Hong Kong Forex retail forex broker KVB Kunlun Financial Group Ltd (HKG:8077) has issued a statement warning investors that it expects to report a loss for the first quarter of 2017. Profit (or more accurately, loss) warnings have become something of a bad habit lately at KVB. For the company, controlled by China's CITIC Securities Company…

April 20, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Six $1B-plus credit unions extend core account processing relationships with Fiserv

Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced that six credit unions with assets of $1 billion or more have extended and expanded their relationships with Fiserv. Each of the credit unions has selected DNA, an open architecture account processing platform, and will leverage DNA along with a variety of…

April 19, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

IG political trading market predicting 90-seat Conservative majority

UK online financial trading firm IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) has launched trading for its clients around the expected results of the just-announced UK election set for June 8. IG's general election seats market allows traders to buy and sell the total amount of seats each party could win. Based on current prices the predicted amount of…

April 19, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Leverate adds features to Forex SaaS products LXTools and LXFeed

Leverate, the financial trading solutions provider, announced the latest developments to their product range of LX Tools and the LXFeed. A number of the developments made to the LX Tools now include the ability to define per security, if the security is tradeable or should just be enabled. If enabled traders will view the symbol…

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