It has been nearly two weeks since Google threw its hat into the competitive ring of large tech companies trying to leverage their respective customer bases by associating in some way with the payments industry. Financial institutions control the payment arena from the consumer through the merchant sector, but banks tend to be slow in…
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Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for November 27, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. European markets have opened strongly this morning, pushing back towards record levels with Germany’s DAX less than 2% away from the…
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TradeStation Securities, Inc., the online broker-dealer and futures commission merchant operating subsidiary of TradeStation Group, Inc., has launched a new pricing plan named TS SELECT. The new feature has been designed for the advanced trader and unlocks access to TradeStation’s entire suite of products and offerings, including its desktop platform. Through TS SELECT, traders in…
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Multi-market trading platform provider TraderEvolution have just unveiled an important add-on to their enterprise software suite designed to increase client trading activity and boost trading volumes. The company's new tool enables research departments to create actionable content in the form of trading ideas, and send the feed out to client devices. Real-time notifications and seamless…
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YJFX, Inc., a financial subsidiary of the Yahoo Group focused on foreign exchange services, has successfully adopted its use of Red Hat’s massively scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering to re-construct and maintain its new private cloud infrastructure. YJFX, which provides trading and investment services in 22 currencies, chose Red Hat to improve customer service, the delivery…
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Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for November 26, 2019. The text below is an excerpt and does not contain the full analysis. Highlights include: Crypto Rebounds: All three major cryptoassets (BTC, ETH, XRP) rebounded sharply yesterday after the brutal falls witnessed in the…
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Torstone Technology, a global provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, has just announced that investment and trading company Saxo Bank Securities Ltd. Japan has gone live with the first phase of its migration to Inferno. Saxo Bank Japan has replaced its legal ledger legacy system with Inferno to support regulatory reporting on the cloud…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for November 26, 2019. This is not a trading advice. See details below: Weekly Global Asset Report 26-Nov 2019 The risk-on trading stance observed since the beginning of October remains well in place on financial markets across the world. Global shares have…
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Online multi-asset trading services and currency data and analytics company, OANDA Global Corporation, has just announced that it has further strengthened its leadership team with two key appointments. Mark Chesterman has been named Head of Trading. He will be responsible for leading the global trading team, quantitative analytics and research groups from the firm’s London…
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The Chairman of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Steven Maijoor, has heightened concerns for liquidity risk within the asset management sector. He expressed his views at a recent speaking engagement by noting that, based on the shutting down of the Woodford fund in Great Britain, he believes that fund managers may be “flouting…
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