Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes just announced that it has expanded the economic calendar geographically by adding the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and Switzerland on top of the United States, Japan and the European Union. China, Sweden, New Zealand, Mexico and Singapore. When a country is added, all economic indices that have a significant impact…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that a new Asia-focused social trading and investing site called CopyCash (at copycash.io) has launched. The new Blockchain-based project is being backed by some names familiar to those in the Retail FX world, including Lior Nabat, founder and still CEO of Tradency which pioneered the mirror trading concept during the…
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Swiss Forex brokerage house Dukascopy Bank SA just announced that it has entered the new domain of core banking business – retail banking. The cornerstone of its new business model is a combination of online video identification and banking infrastructure built around a modern messenger and social network. Dukascopy has achieved the technological point, at…
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ANZ Bank New Zealand today announced that it has signed a statement of commitment to the FX Global Code of Conduct, set to come into effect in May 2018. The code is a single set of global principles which define good practice for the wholesale FX market. In signing the statement ANZ has reinforced its…
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FCA regulated CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) just announced that the Monetary Authority of Singapore has granted Plus500SG Pte. Ltd. a Capital Markets Services license for dealing in securities and leveraged foreign exchange trading. The grant of the Capital Markets Services license reflects the scalability of the Company both from a business and a regulatory…
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Which FX broker is the latest to get a CySEC CIF license? Which China-backed, FCA-licensed ECN broker launched in London? Why was the FXDD-IronFX merger called off? What major change did Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) make to its Affiliate program? Answers to these questions and more appeared exclusively or first at LeapRate this week. Some of our…
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Global Brokerage, Inc. (NASDAQ:GLBR), formerly known as FXCM Inc, announced today that it has notified The NASDAQ Stock Market (Nasdaq) of its intention to voluntarily withdraw its Class A common stock, par value $0.01 (the "Common Stock"), from listing on The NASDAQ Capital Market (the "Exchange"). Global Brokerage intends to file a Form 25, Notification…
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Tallinn, Estonia based Retail FX brokerage group Admiral Markets has announced the commencement of a planned €5 million capital raise, via an offering of unsecured subordinated bonds. The public offering of unsecured subordinated bonds is arranged by Admiral Markets AS and the subscription period runs from December 8-19, 2017. The issue is targeted both to…
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A public offering of subordinated bonds by the online trading provider Admiral Markets AS commenced today, 8 December 2017. In the same Nasdaq Tallinn has started the procedure of listing the bonds of Admiral Markets AS on the Baltic Bond List, following the company’s respective application yesterday. The bond issue’s volume is €5m, as announced…
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New solution helps reduce forward-looking and survivorship bias in the buy-side community Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) has further strengthened its solutions portfolio for quantitative analysis with the launch of I/B/E/S Point in Time (Point in Time), which offers the buy-side another powerful tool for financial backtesting and historical analysis. Point in Time is built on the…
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