Vontobel joins as issuer on Swissquote’s Swiss DOTS, adds 10,000 leveraged products LeapRate

March 27, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Vontobel joins as issuer on Swissquote's Swiss DOTS, adds 10,000 leveraged products

Swissquote Group Holding SA (SWX:SQN) has announced that it is expanding its range of products on the Swiss DOTS trading platform, with the addition of new issuer Vontobel Investment Banking. Approximately 10,000 additional leveraged products will be issued from launch. This complements the existing offering from UBS and Goldman Sachs as well as from Commerzbank…

March 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Former UBS and SAP Global CIO Oliver Bussmann to head new Swiss blockchain association CVA

This morning the Crypto Valley Association (or CVA) was launched in Zug, Switzerland to accelerate the development, deployment, and funding of blockchain technology. CVA is a major, government-backed institution for blockchain with several major blue chip members, a plethora of disruptive startups, and globally recognized leadership. The CVA will be led by renown blockchain guru,…

May 11, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

FXSpotStream starts reporting volumes: $18 billion ADV in April

Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream might have surprised some folks today when they - for the first time - announced the FX trading volumes supported on their system, as well as the size of those volumes. First off, the data. FXSpotStream reported that April volumes on its system averaged $18 billion (single count) daily, 2%…

April 24, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

US Justice Department pursuing FX chat room collusion criminal charges thanks to informant Matt Gardiner from UBS

News outlet Bloomberg is reporting that the ongoing US Justice Department investigation into chat room collusion by FX traders at some of London's big banks might finally be coming to a conclusion. Bloomberg has reported that one of the London-based FX traders from the chat room 'Cartel' has agreed to a reduced sentence in return for…

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