BitJob creates social mining platform for job referrals and networking
August 01, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

BitJob creates social mining platform for job referrals and networking

bitJob, the peer-to-peer employment marketplace for students, introduces social mining by integrating blockchain technology with word of mouth referrals to create a seamless online job fair for networking and referrals. BitJob has created a decentralized tool and digital networking system where freelancers and students can earn rewards/money/coins for tagging and recommending friends and classmates for…

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ASIC office
August 01, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC updates guidance for funds management industry

Australian regulator ASIC has released a suite of seven new and updated regulatory guides to provide comprehensive guidance to the funds management industry. The guidance has been updated for changes arising from the Asia Region Funds Passport and brings all of ASIC's funds management policies up to date to help promote industry-wide consistency. The updates…

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ADSS
August 01, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

ADSS expands legal team with new hires in the Middle East

Abu Dhabi based financial services company ADSS - which recently rebranded from ADS Securities - has announced that it is strengthening its legal team as further international regulations come into force. The company said that the firm's commitment to good governance and compliance across all the jurisdictions in which it operates is an essential part of…

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FCA wants to improve conduct and communications in payment services and e-money firms
August 01, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA to improve conduct in payment services and e-money sectors

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has just informed the public that it is consulting on rules and guidance to improve conduct standards and communications in the payment services and e-money sectors. The Consultation Paper proposes to extend the application of the Principles for Businesses and certain specific rules about promotions and communications so that they…

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Exness launches MT5 with support for hedging on real accounts
August 01, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Exness launches MT5 with support for hedging on real accounts

FCA and CySEC licensed Retail FX broker Exness has announced that it starts offering its clients trading via MetaQuotes' fifth generation platform MetaTrader 5. The total trading volume of the broker in 2017 comprised over 3.2 trillion USD, while the average monthly turnover exceeded 270 billion USD. The number of active clients as at May 2018 was…

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fca warning clone firm
August 01, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Now loans clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Now loans. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics to…

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STOXX Low Carbon products licensed to Italian bank IMI
August 01, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

iSTOXX Developed Markets B.R.AI.N. Index licensed to Coincapital

STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, has just announced that it has licensed the iSTOXX Developed Markets B.R.AI.N. Index to the Canadian Coin Capital Investment Management Inc (Coincapital). The index uses FactSet Revere data to identify sectors likely to benefit from…

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searching the FCA register
August 01, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

How to verify your UK FCA broker

The following article was written by Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. In a world of constantly evolving regulations, licensing and compliance is of paramount importance. Many traders and brokers read and hear about regulation everywhere, but even with all of this awareness, I still often times come across…

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fma warning
August 01, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

French AMF warns against Patrimoine Gestion Management and PGM Patrimoine

Following a number of reports from savers regarding the websites www.patrimoinegestion-management.com and www.pgm-patrimoine.com and the entities Patrimoine Gestion Management and PGM Patrimoine, the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR) have issued a public warning. These websites and entities are not authorized either by the AMF or…

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CLS teams up with Trust bank to welcome first Japanese funds to settlement service
August 01, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS teams up with Trust bank to welcome first Japanese funds to settlement service

CLS, a market infrastructure group delivering settlement, processing and data solutions, has just announced that the first Japanese-domiciled funds have access to CLSSettlement as third-party clients. Asset manager Fidelity International and The Master Trust Bank of Japan, Ltd (MTBJ), a trust bank exclusively engaged in asset management, have the first Japanese-domiciled funds to settle foreign…

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