UK online trading leader IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) has released its scheduled update on its revenue for the three months to 31 August 2019 (Q1 FY20), the first quarter of its financial year ending 31 May 2020 (FY20). Business performance Revenue in Q1 FY20 was £129.1m, 11% higher in comparison with the average of the…
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AMarkets comments on the Trump vs the Fed hot topic in a special guest post exclusive to LeapRate. “Boneheads” is a new word we have learned thanks to Donald Trump. Once again, Mr. Trump confronted the Federal Reserve on the issue of not slashing the interest rates as he’d prefer. In short, he claims that zero-equivalent…
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Marex Spectron, the global commodities firm, has announced that it has launched Marex Financial Products. Marex Financial Products is a structured note business that broadens its range of product offerings and helps diversify the firm’s funding and is part of Marex Solutions, the firm’s OTC derivatives arm. Marex Financial Products leverages Solutions’ fintech platform which…
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ACY Securities, a Sydney based ASIC-regulated multi asset broker, just announced that it has teamed up with Finlogix, an emerging fintech provider in the global derivatives markets. Finlogix provides a technologically inspired suite of trading widgets designed to equip traders with cutting-edge tools such as live market data, real-time HTML 5 charting, an all-encompassing economic…
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B2Broker, a liquidity and technology provider of solutions for the crypto and foreign exchange industry, has announced a new integration with AMTS, a provider of hi-tech modules and bridges, to extend its multi-asset liquidity pool. The new integration will allow clients of AMTS to access B2Broker’s liquidity. In parallel with the new integration, B2Broker has…
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News cycles come and go. A few years back, articles covering the crypto space were few and far between, often only speaking to Bitcoin and what some regulator or government official had to say about the strange new substitute for fiat currency. Fast forward until today, and there are a multitude of websites, this one…
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The world of Mergers and Acquisitions can be fascinating, when it grabs financial headlines to broadcast the latest corporate “marriage” or at least the potential of one, barring any mishap with regulators and government officials that worry about anti-trust implications. Many of these mega-deals, just like many other relationships, can also end in “divorce”, hopefully,…
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Rod Kafer was a former Australian rugby union player for the Australian Wallabies. He served as the coaching director for the team, before joining Invast Global, a multi-asset prime brokerage company, as a Director of Prime Services. While the transition may seem rather surprising for some, Mr. Kafer actually worked in the financial services industry…
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International forex technology company, Tools For Brokers, just announced the latest iteration of its Percentage Allocation Management Module (PAMM). First launched in early 2019, PAMM enables money managers to trade for investors and receive commission for management and/or for execution. PAMM is a multi-component system, allowing brokers to increase trading volume by attracting experienced traders…
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dxFeed, a provider of market data for the global financial industry, announced yesterday that it has teamed up with TensorCharts, the developers of a market data visualization platform, to launch dxFeed TensorCharts enhanced with the CME Futures data bundle. dxFeed TensorCharts is one of the first browser-based apps showing Level 2 data of the CME…
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