Exness wraps up 2023 with 15-year anniversary celebrations LeapRate

December 22, 2023 BY Elizabeth Anderson

Exness wraps up 2023 with 15-year anniversary celebrations

The broker’s senior management offered insight on “The Future of Exness”, and teased an exclusive launch set to drop in January 2024. The presentations were accompanied by fine-dining and musical entertainment, notably from Context, Who Made Who, Alma Linda, Playtronica Satori, Curiosity Media Lab, and Diana Vishneva. Throughout the evening, management discussed Exness’ future roadmap,…

November 20, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Scenarios for 2021 inauguration, is there danger for the dollar?

Markets generally seem to realise there is high likelihood of a disrupted and chaotic transition. More than a week after the result was beyond doubt, Trump has still refused to concede. Lack of commitment in some financial markets is one of the results: During a deadly global pandemic that has brought record low interest rates,…

April 10, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Forex Weekly Look Back: Financial markets and bitcoin in recovery, Japan to enforce new crypto laws

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) suspended this week the Cyprus Investment Firm (CIF) authorisation of Cyprus Investment Firm Belight Capital Group Ltd on violations of regulatory requirements. Financial markets have been in recovery mode for the past several weeks after falling precipitously in mid-February due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Bitcoin, to the…

March 13, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ESMA issues recommendations for financial market participants regarding Covid-19

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), in coordination with the National Competent Authorities (NCAs) is closely monitoring the impact of Covid-19 outbreak on financial markets in the European Union. Following a discussion of the Board of Supervisors examining the marketing situations and observing contingency measures taken by supervised entities, ESMA is making the following…

September 18, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Trump vs the Fed: Thoughts on the Feud

AMarkets comments on the Trump vs the Fed hot topic in a special guest post exclusive to LeapRate. “Boneheads” is a new word we have learned thanks to Donald Trump. Once again, Mr. Trump confronted the Federal Reserve on the issue of not slashing the interest rates as he’d prefer. In short, he claims that zero-equivalent…

July 07, 2016 BY Mike Fox

AlgoDynamix signs up major Silicon Valley customer for predictive financial SaaS

AlgoDynamix today announced acquisition of a major Silicon Valley customer under a Global production SaaS license. London and Cambridge based AlgoDynamix is an innovative risk analytics company that detects disruptive events in global financial markets and anticipates price movements hours or days in advance of the event. The software is used by investment banks and asset…

April 07, 2015 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

UK General Election: Stock market performs far better under Tories

Bristol-based investment and wealth management firm Hargreaves Lansdowne has produced data showing the effect on the stock market according to which political party is at the helm of the United Kingdom

December 30, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

Business News Review: Alibaba founder $25 billion richer

Whilst Alibaba's founder Jack Ma accrued a further $25.1 billion in personal wealth this year, US President Obama looks to increase the minimum wage, with employees better off but companies squeezed. As 2015 approaches, which British shares are likely to be a good investment?

December 22, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

European joint committee defines practices for financial conglomerates

The Joint Committee which consists of a series of three pan-European regulatory authorities has published its guidelines for cross-border financial conglomerates, with supervisory practices paramount

December 08, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

FCA moves with the times, invokes new structure and new executives

Britain's financial markets regulator, the FCA, has invoked a series of structural changes in order to meet the demands of the modern financial markets ecosystem, with several executive-level changes within the organization

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