The Wall Street Journal announced that is bringing to life the daily drama of the U.S. stock market through a new WSJ Augmented Reality experience built with Tango. WSJ AR projects a holographic 3D view of the live U.S. stock market onto the real world, offering a new way to see how every stock is…
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IPC Systems, Inc., a global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, today announced a collaboration with OneAsia, a provider of connectivity, data centre, managed cloud and technology infrastructure services in Asia, to equip investors around the world with the connectivity and technology critical for reliable, secure participation in…
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Financial professionals using Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) has enriched its environmental, social and governance (ESG) capabilities with the addition of the Insight360 SASB Edition, an app that gives the buy-side the ability to leverage the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board’s (SASB) Materiality Framework to identify investment opportunities and manage risks with near real-time ESG data. Developed by…
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Online gaming and financial trading systems giant Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) is today hosting its Annual General Meeting at which its Chairman Alan Jackson will make the following statement: I am delighted to say that Playtech is delivering a strong performance in 2017 driven by organic growth and recent strategic acquisitions. Growth in daily average revenues…
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Russia based global connectivity solutions provider Avelacom has announced the launch of a new point of presence (PoP) at AT TOKYO data center facilities, with the aim to improve low latency offerings for key financial markets in London and Tokyo. The new PoP in AT TOKYO provides access to Japan’s financial markets. Avelacom’s PoPs in…
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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today entered into a cooperation agreement with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to foster collaboration in support of financial technology (Fintech) innovation. Under the agreement, the SFC and the FCA will cooperate on information sharing and referrals of innovative firms seeking to enter one another’s markets.…
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TMX Insights today announced it has teamed up with IRESS (ASX:IRE), a supplier of technology for wealth management and financial markets, to develop compatibility between the IRESS products and the TMX Analytics Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) application. TMX Analytics TCA offers clients protected access to their trade and order history and enables them to review…
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Noble Bank International (NBI), the first non-fractional reserve bank, is officially announcing the launch of Noble FX. With this launch, Noble introduces its initial service for real-time post-trade banking for OTC markets. NBI allows clients to create their own pools of credit, enabling counterparties to clear, net and settle spot FX and precious metals transactions…
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This week LeapRate caught up with Imran Firoz, Managing Director (pictured above) of US-headquartered Match-Trade Technologies, a global Forex brokerage software provider. His early experience in the FX industry was as the Chief Financial Officer of a brokerage firm where he provided financial oversight to accounting & finance departments of the company and advised the…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that a new FX social trading site and service has just been launched in Switzerland, with something of a new take on the concept. The new company, called Crowd Trading (at www.crowd-trading.com) has been launched by a number of engineers at a Swiss Forex broker, led by Managing Partner Alexandru Craciun.…
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