The FCA licence signifies an important milestone for the company, which has been in business for approximately 10 years. It allows Edgewater Markets to expand its reach and include more clients on its platform. The company can now offer services such as liquidity provision, technology solutions, foreign exchange, commodities, and derivative products to UK clients.…
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Cifuentes brings nearly two decades of experience in the financial markets. Throughout his career, he has held senior roles in liquidity management and prime brokerage at custody firms, exchanges, bulge-bracket banks. Andres Cifuentes, commented: I’m excited to be joining Edgewater during a time of tremendous global expansion. I have worked closely with the Edgewater team…
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Managing Director and Head of Sales, Americas, Jose-Antonio Buenaño said: Brazil is a tremendous market for us, and one of the fastest-growing participants in currency trading globally. Edgewater believes strongly in ‘boots on the ground,’ where our uniquely experienced FX professionals, armed with unparalleled local knowledge, are closest to the markets, developments and players. With…
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Brian Andreyko, CFA, Chief Product Officer at Edgewater Markets, said: Our clients needed more robust windowing performance from our platform. Since partnering with OpenFin, users have been very happy with the enhanced user experience due to window management capabilities, and have seen an upgrade in performance of data delivery as a result. Our development team…
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Chief Product Officer of Edgewater Markets, Brian Andreyko, added:. With local SG1 based trading infrastructure, pricing, trading, and order matching, our internal trading foreign exchange volumes will execute with bespoke local connectivity and all of our liquidity consumers and white label trading partners will benefit from better price discovery, lower latency, and improved execution quality.…
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Research published by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) reveals that 2.3 million adults now have cryptoassets. The number is 1.9 million higher than last year. The research estimates that 78% of people have heard of cryptocurrencies while last year it was 73%. The UK regulator’s analysis shows that as holding crypto has become commonplace, the attitudes toward…
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Robert Sanchez, Managing Director & Head of LatAm, added: We are pleased to welcome Michael to Edgewater. Since 2009, we have been offering the FX market access to Latin America and we see great opportunities to further strengthen our offering in the region. Hiring Mike is an important part of this process and demonstrates Edgewater’s…
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Canada-based payments processor, Nuvei, are rumoured to be in the process of acquiring Simplex. This Israeli start-up company works to provide crypto companies with a fiat infrastructure. Though the acquisition is yet to be officially confirmed, there have been reports that the companies are in definitive talks surrounding a deal worth around $250 million, paid…
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Jesse Hadley, commented: Edgewater brings a unique mix of proprietary technology and liquidity execution services to their execution serviced clients, and white label clients. I am thrilled to join their growing global team of industry experts. Hadley joins Edgewater Markets from TOKKYO FX (Vienna), where he was responsible for managing the managed liquidity and new…
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The United States Attorney’s Office for the Easter District of New York announced this week that Instagram influencer “Jay Mazini”, whose real name is Jegara Igbara, has been charged with wire fraud. The charges were related to a Bitcoin scheme where the social media influencer is alleged to have persuaded his followers to send him…
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