State Street quarterly Brexometer Index reveals latest investor sentiment towards Brexit LeapRate

October 31, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

State Street quarterly Brexometer Index reveals latest investor sentiment towards Brexit

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT) today launched the latest findings from its Brexometer Index, a quarterly pulse survey of institutional investor sentiment about the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union. The Q4 2017 survey indicates a slight decrease in confidence, with 40 percent of respondents expecting positive global economic growth in the near-medium term…

October 31, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Spotware's cTrader launches beta version of new mobile trading apps

Forex and CFD technology solutions provider Spotware Systems, the developer of the popular cTrader trading platform, have announced the soft launch of brand new cTrader mobile applications for both Android and iOS devices. The new cTrader mobile applications have been built from the ground up in a native format. Once the rollout is complete this new…

October 31, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Poland backtracking on plans to reduce maximum FX and CFD trading leverage to 25x

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned from sources in Poland that the country's Ministry of Finance has decided to delay its plans to further limit the Retail FX and CFDs sector in the country. Poland was one of the first EU countries to rein in Retail FX trading, passing a law in July 2015 which set…

October 31, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Optimove launches new AI-based Acquisition Marketing tool targeting new website visitors

Customer marketing and retention specialist Optimove announced that it has released Optimove 6.0, introducing a new customer lifecycle stage to its product: the visitor. Users can now automate targeted marketing campaigns for new visitors as precisely as they can for customers who have already made a purchase. Optimove claims that its new product will not…

R3 and SBI Holdings plan to accelerate Corda adoption in Japan

October 31, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

R3 and 20+ banks launch cross-border payments platform built on Corda DLT Tech

Distributed ledger consortium R3 and 22 of its member banks have announced a cross-border payments platform built on top of the company's Corda technology. Centered around the concept of creating digitized versions of fiat currencies that can be exchanged and transferred between different parties, the effort has seen involvement from banks including Barclays, BBVA, CIBC…

October 31, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Divisa launches new FX and CFD trading platform, Divisa Vault

FCA regulated multi asset prime brokerage Divisa Capital, part of the Equiti Group, has announced the launch of its new proprietary trading platform, Divisa Vault. We had reported back in September about the impending launch of Divisa's new trading platform, when Divisa hired Sammy Christou from London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG) as its new head of…

October 31, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group expands base metals offering with Copper Premium Shanghai futures

Derivatives marketplace operator CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) today announced it will expand its base metals offering with the introduction of a new Copper Premium Grade A CIF Shanghai (Metal Bulletin) futures contract to begin trading on November 20, 2017. Pending regulatory approvals, the new contract will be available for trading on CME Globex and for…

October 31, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FXTM offers MetaTrader 4 traders Cryptocurrency CFDs: BTC/USD, ETH/USD, LTC/USD

Retail forex broker FXTM just informed that it now offers clients the opportunity to trade CFDs on Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin against the US dollar (BTC/USD, ETH/USD, LTC/USD). The launch of this product coincides with a recent surge in demand for digital currencies. The implementation of Bitcoin's SegWit2x solution on the 1st August, designed to…

October 31, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

B3 offsets its greenhouse gas emissions for the sixth consecutive year

B3 informed that it has offset 4,782.72 tons of CO2 equivalent, related to its 2016 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions not liable to be reduced, thus becoming a "carbon neutral" company for another year. To offset this amount of CO2, 4,783 carbon credits, called CERs (Certified Emission Reductions) and generated under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)…

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