Category: Forex

CFTC offices
July 11, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CFTC appoints Daniel Gorfine as LabCFTC Director and Chief Innovation Officer

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Acting Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo today appointed Daniel Gorfine to serve as Director of LabCFTC and Chief Innovation Officer, effective immediately. Daniel is a well-respected leader whose expertise in market-enhancing FinTech will help the CFTC disrupt the status quo and change the way government interacts with our ever-innovating marketplace,"…

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TMX Group volumes report
July 11, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TMX Group releases June equity financing statistics

TMX Group (TSX:X) today announced its financing activity on Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange for June 2017. Toronto Stock Exchange welcomed 15 new issuers in June 2017, compared with 15 in the previous month and nine in June 2016. The new listings included 11 exchange traded funds, one mining company, two consumer products…

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CIBfx
July 11, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex Sports Sponsorship: CIBfx adds Ian Rush as Brand Ambassador

Offshore retail forex broker CIBfx has announced a Brand Ambassador partnership with legendary footballer Ian Rush, OBE. Ian Rush is Liverpool FC’s all time leading goal scorer, having scored a total of 346 goals in all competitions during his two spells at the club. At international level he made 73 appearances for the Wales national team and…

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Exante
July 11, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Former ADS and Saxo Bank exec Valery Bartashevich joins Malta prime broker Exante

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that former ADS Securities and Saxo Bank executive Valery Bartashevich has joined Malta based FX and multi asset prime broker Exante. Based in London, Mr. Bartashevich will have a senior business development role with Exante, covering mainly South Europe, Latin America, the UK, the MENA region, as well as South East Asia.…

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July 11, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

GigaWatt Project builds eight additional mining buildings

Giga Watt Token Launch announced today that they’ve sold over 14.4 million tokens in their crowdsale, enough to build an additional eight mining buildings. Along with the construction of eight new mining buildings, one of the three already-functioning mining centers will undergo expansions and renovations. The Washington state-based Giga Watt facility allows anyone to participate…

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July 11, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Duco focuses on cutting investigation overhead with new real-time automation module

Duco, the global provider of self-service data normalization and reconciliation services, today announced the official launch of Duco Cube Insight, a real-time analysis module for reconciliations that enables firms to cut down root cause investigation time around operational issues. The module was made available to Duco clients in the first quarter of 2017. Since then…

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australia apac
July 11, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

ASIC to add reporting requirements to Australia's new Retail Forex client money law

Australia financial regulator ASIC has issued a consultation paper, asking for feedback on new proposed rules requiring brokers to reconcile and report all retail client money held on a daily, monthly, and yearly basis. Some background... As we reported back in March, Australia’s parliament recently passed the Treasury Laws Amendment (Measures No 1) Bill 2016, known more…

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July 10, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Euronext acquires majority stake in iBabs

Euronext announced the closing of the acquisition of a 60% stake in iBabs, a Dutch provider of dematerialised board portal solutions for corporates and public organisations, for a consideration of €30.1 million. iBabs, based in the Netherlands, provides an efficient and secured board portal solution to close to 1,000 companies and public organisations with more…

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