Back on March 8th, LeapRate covered when Spain’s financial regulator CNMV (Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores) issued its Activity Plan for 2017-2018... In that activity plan, the CNMV did not outline specific plans to target Forex and CFD trading, but it did state that one of its four strategic objectives will include “analysis of initiatives…
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Retail Forex broker Alpari Limited today announced that has added a new section on its website that provides news about financial markets from FxWirePro. Clients can now get all their news in one place by logging into Alpari's site. This new feature offers news in English and Chinese from FxWirePro, a service that is highly recommended…
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National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository, in cooperation with the Russian National Association of Securities Market Participants (NAUFOR), has launched a centralized system for record keeping and distributing Unit Investment Trust (UIT) units. The new system allows users to get access to operations with the UIT units for all asset management companies connected…
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RavenPack, the data analytics provider for financial services, announced the launch of its new product, a self-service data and visualization platform that enables financial professionals to analyze unstructured data for investing and trading, and to support risk management and compliance. The company’s new platform allows users to monitor market-moving events, and quickly surface insights by…
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ThinkMarkets, a global multi asset brokerage, just announced that has extended its European reach through the launch of its Greek-language offering. The global provider of forex and CFD trading will support the needs of Greek-speaking traders through its dedicated, round-the- clock online services. The firm announced the launch of its full-scale Greek-language website today which…
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Information giant Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) has completed its acquisitions of Clarient Global LLC and Avox Limited, expanding its risk-management footprint and its ability to provide a best-in-class standard of customer solutions by integrating both businesses into its portfolio of risk management, compliance and data offerings. The Clarient and Avox acquisitions represent the next step…
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Match-Trade Technologies, headquartered in Irvine, California, today announced the launch of new services which will enable brokers to become compliant with European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MIFID II) new regulations and guidelines. The offering will provide dedicated solutions to meet the best execution policy requirements described in…
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Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company and the region’s largest equities exchange operator, and BIDS Trading, L.P. announced today the successful buy-side focused launch of Bats LIS (Large in Scale), a new block trading service for the European equity market, on Friday, 17 March 2017. The platform, which rolled out to sell-side participants…
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Is trading is just too complex for mobile? Nicc Lewis, Chief Marketing Officer at Leverate, explains. To be sure this title could be considered misleading; has mobile trading failed or has our generation failed to pick it up? Certainly in South East Asia, in countries such as Malaysia, trading from a mobile device is the norm.…
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Financial technology provider Spotware Systems announced upcoming support for a new AMF Compliant Account type. This will be made available following the release of their next version of cServer. cTrader is the first White Label trading platform to announce support for French clients in conjunction with the recent statement so far only issued in French…
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