The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) informed today that it has updated the Conduct of Business Rulebook, announcing permanent restrictions regarding the marketing, distribution or sale of Contracts for Differences (CFDs) to retail investors. During the last years, the European market has witnessed a rapid increase in the marketing, distribution or sale of CFDs to…
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Malta is one of those countries that are very pro-blockchain and pro-crypto. As Leaprate reported back in January 2019, Malta was home to more than twice that amount of crypto exchange trading than the U.S at that time. Malta led the cryptocurrency trading craze with $40 billion in trading volume back in early 2019. Now,…
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Blockchain revolutionizes the world we live in every day. From “helping” the real estate industry to the food and beverage one, blockchain disrupts them all. One of the most pressing issues that the whole world currently faces is undeniably the rising migration patterns and the rising number of refugees. One country, however, has thought of…
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A persistent problem that all crypto related companies face not only in the U.S. market, but also in many other global jurisdictions, is the inability to obtain even the most basic of banking services from domestic banking institutions. Bloomberg starts by quoting a complaint from Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of quantitative crypto trading company Alameda Research:…
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LeapRate Exclusive... The global elite and their private jets flew into Davos, Switzerland, last week for the 2019 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting to review, discuss, and debate the pressing world issues of the day. Occasionally, the setting provided an excellent platform for individual leaders to speak to personal items of high priority in their…
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Malta is known as the "cryptocurrency heaven", as it has been one of the top destinations for crypto enthusiasts, techies and investors. Now, the country is preparing some new cryptocurrency regulations that will come into effect in November, 2018. From potentially partnering with OKEX and "housing" cryptocurrency exchanges such as BitBay and Binance, Malta is…
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As blockchain has already disrupted industries and countries from Russia to Australia, Malta is not in line to disrupt the online gaming industry through blockchain. Time of Malta reported: "The Malta Gaming Authority (MGA) is leading by example in establishing Malta as a frontrunner in this regard, and, in the White Paper published in July…
Read moreCrane Currency, a rapidly growing global producer of currency products, announced this week plans to build a new banknote printing facility and customer experience center in the country of Malta. The Malta facility will represent an investment of approximately $100 million for the construction of the factory, the machinery and the equipment. The company expects…
Read moreJust announced The Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has become aware of the website (https://alphacmarkets.com) which is falsely stating that Alphacmarkets Europe is licensed by the MFSA. The website is a badly set up Forex brokerage website which looks sketchy from the first page load. This entity is also misleading the public by using the…
Read moreTier1FX, the STP-DMA agency model broker regulated by the Malta Financial Services Authority, is pleased to announce that KPMG in Malta has been engaged to review its offering in FX and CFDs. Having examined its trading execution system and tested a representative sample of transactions in 2015, the resultant report has confirmed that these trades…
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