June 23, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Online Fintech services provider MyBucks completes €15.5 million IPO on Frankfurt Stock Exchange

Luxembourg-based Fintech services company MyBucks S.A., which operates the GetBucks, GetSure and GetBanked brands and provides financial products and services to the low and middle-income consumer segment, predominantly in emerging markets of SubSaharan Africa, has successfully raised €15.5 million in an IPO on the Deutsche Bourse's Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Hauck & Aufhäuser Privatbankiers KGaA acted as Sole Global…

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June 22, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Florida fraudster gets jail time and ordered to pay $2.7 million for commodity pool fraud

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that Judge Paul G. Byron of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida (Orlando Division) entered a Default Final Judgment Order against Defendants Dante S. Giovannetti and his companies Emini Experts, LLC(Emini) and Capital Trading Concepts LLC (Capital Trading) for defrauding clients in…

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June 22, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Alpari FX volumes drop 3% in May to $89 billion

Russia-based retail forex broker Alpari has announced that its FX trading volumes in May declined slightly from April, coming in at $89 billion. However May did see growth in volumes of currency pairs GBPUSD (+ 8%) and EURJPY (+ 19%), each of which saw a lot of volatility ahead of this month's Brexit vote. However overall volumes…

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June 22, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Broadridge hires Edings Thibault from MSCI as Head of Investor Relations

Financial technology provider Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) has announced that it has appointed Edings Thibault as Vice President and Head of Investor Relations. Mr. Thibault joins Broadridge from MSCI Inc (NYSE:MSCI), a provider of financial data and technology services, where he was also Head of Investor Relations and, most recently, Global Head of Business Intelligence.…

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June 22, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Brexit vote result: It will be all about the Undecideds

This article was written by Patrick Latchford, CEO of FCA regulated broker Blackwell Global. Interestingly, Blackwell has recently sent out a note to clients indicating that it will institute a no-new-trades policy tomorrow once voting actually begins. “The Undecideds”, coming to a cinema near you The Brexit vote has all the ingredients to make a…

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