UK stocks flat after lockdown guideline confusion Both large cap and mid cap London-listed stocks posted a near flat day on Monday, after a confusing day in which the Prime Minister was forced to put out a substantial clarification about the advice he provided on the lifting of lockdown measures over the weekend. His statement…
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FTSE climbs despite Bank of England warning UK markets were closed on Friday for a public holiday, but the FTSE 100 gained more than 3% between Monday and Thursday, while the FTSE 250 had a positive but more pedestrian week. The shortened week ended on a high, with the FTSE 100 gaining 1.4% on Thursday…
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Corda Enterprise operates in scalability, low-latency and encrypted and is optimized for business cases requiring institutional grade controls in reliability and availability. The collaboration with R3 will also enhance Nasdaq’s digital assets marketplaces, improving transparency and align with their capital markets counterparts. Cathy Minter, Chief Revenue Officer, R3 commented: Financial institutions are becoming increasingly aware…
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Thomas Zeeb, Head Securities & Exchanges and Member of the Executive Board, SIX, said: The new joint-venture marks the extension of this long-standing and successful partnership and is a testament to the innovative nature of the Swiss Stock Exchange. It leverages the benefits of microwave technology across Europe to ensure fair and more efficient trading…
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The licensed European broker Just2Trade Online Ltd has just announced that it has launched a new service via the multi-asset MetaTrader 5 platform. Just2Trade now offers its private and institutional clients access to financial instruments traded on major global exchanges: US (NYSE, NASDAQ) Canada (TSX) UK (LSE) Germany (Xetra) France (Euronext) Russia (MOEX) Spain (BME)…
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It is one thing for a crypto-related company to sell tokens in an Initial Coin Offering that are most definitely securities under the law, but when a company professes a shift to blockchain, then lists on the Nasdaq, its management team better be up to speed on required SEC filing protocols and share registrations. Apparently,…
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One of the biggest exchanges in the world, Nasdaq, is reportedly going to add Bitcoin and Ethereum indices to its global data service by the end of February, 2019. According to Nasdaq Trader: Effective Monday, February 25, 2019, Nasdaq, through its data dissemination relationship with Brave New Coin, will send real-time Bitcoin and Ethereum index…
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Oslo Børs VPS Holding ASA today released its Q4 2018 financial results indicating profit of NOK 77 million for the period, but said that it would not pay another dividend for the 2018 fiscal year. The company earned revenues of NOK 268 million during the quarter, which was higher than the Q4 2017 profits by…
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Analysts are still grappling with the reasons why the crypto market shed nearly $10 billion of market cap last week. Bitcoin, the market leader by far with a 53.4% market share, had suddenly slid from over the $3,500 threshold down to below $3,400. It has since climbed back over this figure, but industry talking heads…
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LeapRate Exclusive... Coin Futures and CoinFLEX will be offering futures contracts as soon as next month to the Asian market. The new contracts will provide possible leverage of up to 20 times. Such physical futures contracts are considered to be more valuable, as the value is tied to an underlying asset, rather than fiat currency.…
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