Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) Chair Maureen Jensen has announced the appointment of Tim Moseley as a Vice-Chair of the OSC, effective November 29, 2017 for a two year term. Prior to his appointment, Tim served as an OSC Commissioner and as Chair of the Adjudicative Committee. Tim brings a unique set of skills to the…
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Continuing a fairly mixed pattern of results we have seen from other leading institutional FX venues, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has announced that November trading volumes were very strong, in fact the company's third best ever month as far as trading activity goes. Average daily FX volumes in November were $22.1 billion, up 11%…
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Who is behind a new P2P binary options platform is seeking to raise money in an ICO? Why is XTB liquidating its subsidiary in Turkey? Why did Germany's BaFIN decide it necessary to 'sharpen' the negative client balance rules for CFD brokers? Answers to these questions and more appeared exclusively or first at LeapRate this…
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Dubai based integration company Noor Index Software Solution has announced the release of its Bullion Physical Trading plugin for the MetaTrader 5 platform. The application enables physical trading with delivery and storage facilities for precious metals such as gold and silver. Noor Index specializes in providing customizable financial software solutions tailored to suit diverse financial services industries. The company's…
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Contrary to erroneous reports which have appeared on certain blogs, Warsaw based X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), which operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub trading platform, has indicated in regulatory filings that it does indeed plan to carry forward its plans to leave the Turkish Retail FX market,…
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Global FX brokerage group Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) has announced the launch of Bitcoin trading on City Index, its FCA regulated service in the UK. Glenn Stevens, Chief Executive Officer of GAIN Capital stated: Cryptocurrencies are one of the most exciting trends shaping today's markets. We are pleased to provide our clients with the ability to trade Bitcoin through an established,…
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LeapRate Exclusive Interview... While the story of every company and how it got to where it is may be different, that of CrescoFX is certainly unique carving a path from Canada to central Asia and then back to Europe. We reported exclusively last month on CrescoFX becoming the latest in a string of foreign based…
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Boerse Stuttgart announced that it has acquired 100 percent of Sowa Labs GmbH with effect from 30 November. The fintech company, which is based in Ulm, Germany, specialises in predictive data analytics and has been analysing data by using proprietary artificial intelligence since 2013. Its core area of business is real-time analysis of the rapidly…
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Financial planner company fscom announced that it has appointed James Borley as Director and new Head of Assurance. Prior to joining fscom, Borley spent more than 20 years at the FCA, in a broad range of regulatory roles, where he was responsible for the authorisation, supervision and monitoring of a wide range of regulated firms,…
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Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has also released its trading volumes report for the month of November 2017 with a positive total ADV for all TFX products. The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 89,908 ( - 15.0% MoM / - 60.0% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 4,495. 項目 November 2017…
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