ActivTrades becomes first finance broker to sign HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter LeapRate

March 22, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

ActivTrades becomes first finance broker to sign HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter

FCA regulated retail forex and CFDs broker ActivTrades has announced that it is the first finance broker to sign the HM Treasury Women in Finance Charter, which supports gender diversity in the financial services industry. Created in March 2016, the Charter has gathered the support of over 120 leading financial organisations including Merrill Lynch, Credit…

March 22, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

BlackRock takes its position in IG Group to above 10%

LeapRate Exclusive… Some of the world's leading institutional investors continue to make big bets on a turnaround in shares of leading UK online brokers, which were hit hard late last year after the FCA proposed new strict rules governing Forex and CFD trading. LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK) has increased…

March 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Alpari opens a new Mauritius office

Retail Forex broker Alpari Limited has opened an office at Maeva Tower, a modern business center in Ebene CyberCity in Mauritius. A favorable business climate, as well as Mauritius' focus on developing a competitive legal environment, has boosted activity in the macroeconomic area of Asia, the Indian Ocean, and East Africa. The opening of this…

White River Bancshares Company begins trading on OTCQX

March 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

OTC Markets welcomes Neo Lithium to OTCQX

OTC Markets Group Inc. (OTCQX: OTCM), operator of financial markets for 10,000 U.S. and global securities, today announced Neo Lithium Corp. (TSX-V: NLC; OTCQX: NTTHF), a junior natural resource company focused on lithium brine exploration, has qualified to trade on the OTCQX® Best Market. Neo Lithium upgraded to OTCQX from the Pink® market. Neo Lithium…

Bank of China (UK) Limited joins LCH’s SwapClear

March 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

First buy-side client live with credit default swaps clearing at LCH

LCH, a global clearing house, announced today that its first European buy-side client is now live on CDSClear. Amundi is now clearing credit default swaps (CDS) at CDSClear via its clearing broker BNP Paribas. The expansion into client clearing is the latest development for CDSClear, which has seen activity on its service grow significantly in…

March 22, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Tradeworks hires Graham Moss from Gwazy, adds Cyprus presence for selling its auto trading platform to Forex brokers

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Denmark based financial trading technology provider Tradeworks has hired longtime Gwazy / Windsor Brokers executive Graham Moss. Based in Cyprus, Mr. Moss will be responsible for selling Tradeworks' auto trading platform into the Cyprus Retail Forex broker community, and beyond. Graham Moss has spent the past eight years with…

March 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Thomson Reuters updates its Legal Tracker

Information giant Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) just announced that corporate legal departments can more easily compare their performance to industry benchmarks and streamline frequently-used workflows with new automation tools in the latest update of Thomson Reuters Legal Tracker™ (formerly Serengeti Tracker™), the e-billing and matter management solution. Tracker Benchmark Index data is now available in…

March 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bats Europe launches two new indices designed to measure impact of Brexit on UK companies

Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, today announced it has launched the Bats Brexit 50/50 Indices, two new benchmark indices designed to reflect the impact of Brexit on UK companies. The two indices – the Bats Brexit High 50 and Bats Brexit Low 50 – are designed to act as barometers for…

March 22, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

AxiTrader hires Filippo De Rosa to head its Middle East operations

Australian-owned Forex (FX) and Contracts For Difference (CFD) trading provider AxiCorp continues its global expansion and has appointed Filippo De Rosa to head its Middle East operations. De Rosa brings more than 12 years of experience in retail and institutional sales in the global CFD and FX markets to his new role, which will see…

March 22, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM cuts Board to seven with departures of Eric LeGoff and Jim Brown

The departures at retail forex broker FXCM and its newly-named parent company Global Brokerage Inc (NASDAQ:GLBR) aren't limited to just the management ranks. The company has announced that two outside directors, Eric LeGoff, and James G. (Jim) Brown, would be stepping down from the Global Brokerage board, without replacements planned. Following the departures of LeGoff and Brown,…

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