Ryan Canfield
October 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

LiquidityBook adds Broadridge's Ryan Canfield as Lead Product Analyst

LiquidityBook, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has just announced the addition of Ryan Canfield as Lead Product Analyst. Mr. Canfield will lay the foundation for a team that will manage all product enhancements, working closely with the deployment and client services groups to oversee client requests and determine the most…

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etf
October 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

KASE Index ETF begins trading on Moscow Exchange

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has just announced that it has started trading in the KASE Index Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) managed by FinEx Investment Management LLP. The ETF is listed on MOEX’s Level 1 under the ticker FXKZ. Investment Company Freedom Finance is acting as the market maker. The ETF is traded in roubles and linked…

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fca warning
October 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Cullen Price Group

UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the company Cullen Price Group. Cullen Price Group is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…

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Anya Aratovskaya Advanced Markets Fortex
October 17, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

FIX API - How to get one

The following article was written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. Our marketing team gets countless emails from retail traders requesting demo versions of our FIX API. Advanced Markets does not work directly with retail traders (the firm only deals with institutional clients), however, upon researching these requests…

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SafeCharge teams up with online sports betting and iGaming bank payments source Mazooma
October 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Volante Technologies launches payments as a service on Microsoft Azure for FIMBank

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for accelerated end-to-end payments processing, has announced that FIMBank Malta has signed as the first customer for Volante’s newly launched cloud-based VolPay-as-a-Service offering. Volante will provide FIMBank with a managed service for processing SEPA payments in the cloud, powered by Volante’s VolPay Suite of payments products running…

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Jason Gibson FIXI
October 17, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: FIXI plc CEO Jason Gibson departs, sets up 888markets.com

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Jason Gibson has left London based institutional FX broker FIXI plc, to set up a new Retail FX brokerage brand called 888 Markets, at website 888markets.com. The new business, formally incorporated as Triple Eight Markets Group Ltd, is acting as an Appointed Representative of FCA-regulated FIXI. The new company is a…

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DTCC - new additions to the Board
October 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

DLT can support trading volumes in the US equity markets: DTCC

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has announced the results of a benchmark study which demonstrated for the first time ever that distributed ledger technology (DLT) is capable of supporting average daily trading volumes in the US equity market of more than 100…

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Secondary market for tZERO security tokens is live
October 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

tZERO issues preferred tZERO security tokens

tZERO, the blockchain-meets-Wall-Street subsidiary of Overstock.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSTK), has just announced it has completed the issuance of preferred tZERO security tokens. Tokens were issued to investors who had fully funded signed agreements for future equity (SAFEs) prior to the August 6, 2018 close of the company’s Security Token Offering (STO). tZERO raised $134 million from…

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asic afs license
October 17, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC cancels AFS license of Red Summit

Australian regulator ASIC has just announced that it has cancelled the Australian financial services (AFS) license of WA-based Red Summit Trading Partners Pty Ltd (Red Summit). On 7 March 2018, ASIC suspended the AFS license of Red Summit until 7 September 2018 after it was found that the licensee was not carrying on its financial…

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