Tag: Leverate

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October 30, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up: The Fake MT4 in China

The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. 2016 statistics cited by OECD.org show that worldwide trade in fake goods is worth nearly half a trillion US dollars per annum. This translates into the fact that 2.5% of all global imported products are counterfeit. The countries whose goods are hardest hit are…

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October 16, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Native Advertising and the first steps to a successful campaign

The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. In 2015, The New York Times, in partnership with Chartbeat, conducted a study on the effectiveness of its native advertising platform, Paid Posts, with regards to reader engagement and overall audience response. It found that 50% of its Paid Posts content outperformed in-house editorial…

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cryptography
September 25, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Cryptography and the Reduced Need for a Centralized Authority

The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. Cryptography sounds like the kind of scientific endeavor that was created during the internet age, but in fact, it has existed for many, many years. It is defined in Wikipedia as “the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of…

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customer satisfaction
September 18, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Success in Customer Service

The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. Good customer service today goes well beyond handing out points for frequent purchases, especially when the average consumer’s relationship with brands is polygamous. Even the most loyal of customers cheats on their favorite brand, and one bad experience will send them on a social…

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September 11, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

The real value of Bitcoin

The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. As debate continues on whether the B in Bitcoin is to be capitalised or not, the BTC/USD pair hit $4,980 over the weekend, which is actually $5,000 for most traders looking to buy on cryptocurrency exchanges once the spread is included. That the price…

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September 04, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

10 of the Most Unusual Hedging Strategies

The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. Traders are always looking for tricks to give them an edge in the market. One way of doing this is by offsetting the risk of a trade by hedging it against market movements in the opposite direction. Consider it like an insurance policy so…

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Union Bank of the Philippines adopts Refinitiv's Electronic Trading
August 28, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Quantum Computing and Financial Trading

The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. If you have not heard of quantum computing, you are not alone. To date, most of the work of quantum computing has been taking place in universities, where super smart tech geeks work with never-before-seen technology to change the world using algorithms that most…

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