June 20, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Markit acquires derivatives valuation and analysis firm Prism Valuation

Financial info services specialist Markit Ltd (NASDAQ: MRKT) has announced that it has agreed to acquire Prism Valuation, a Toronto-based provider of independent valuation and risk analysis of derivatives and structured products. Prism Valuation’s customers include regional banks, custodians, asset managers and issuers of structured notes. The acquisition is expected to close in the coming…

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June 20, 2016 BY Mike Fox

CME Group launches EU Wheat Futures and Options

CME Group (NASDAQ: CME), today announced the launch of physically delivered European Union (EU) Wheat futures and options on futures contracts to begin trading on 12 September 2016, pending all relevant regulatory review periods. These contracts will be listed subject to the rules and regulations of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). The new EU…

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June 20, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

How to choose a Retail Forex broker

Going with a Forex broker properly licensed and regulated in your particular jurisdiction is always important. But there's a lot more to selecting your broker than that. Yael Warman, Content Manager at Leverate, takes an interesting look at what factors traders should consider before choosing a Forex broker. What should you Keep in Mind when…

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June 20, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Warsaw Stock Exchange open to cooperation with Chinese investors

The Warsaw Stock Exchange and Haitong Bank today announced they have signed a cooperation agreement. In order to support both parties development, the agreement provides for mutual exchange of information about the prevailing situations on the capital markets in which both institutions operate. The WSE also signed a similar agreement with CSAHK – Chinese Securities…

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June 20, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Alpari releases separate iOS app for mobile Binary Options trading

Retail forex broker Alpari has announced the release of the Alpari Options mobile application for smartphones using the iOS operating system. All of the strategies, instruments and timeframes which are in the web version of the terminal in myAlpari are available in the new application. The application works on all devices with iOS 8.0 and…

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June 20, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Hong Kong SFC warns against two clones of regulated broker South China Forex Limited

Hong Kong financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has issued a warning regarding two websites operating as clones of regulated broker South China Forex Limited and its affiliated companies South China Capital Limited, South China Research Limited, South China Securities Limited and South China Commodities Limited, all of which are SFC-licensed corporations. The near-identical sites - nhjr999.com…

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June 20, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

CMC Markets sees Fidelity Investments overtake Goldman Sachs as its #2 shareholder - LeapRate Exclusive

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned, via filings made to the London Stock Exchange, that investment and mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments has built up a 5.22% position in FCA regulated online brokerage firm CMC Markets Plc (LON:CMCX). Headquartered in Boston MA, Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest investment management and mutual fund companies. Fidelity has…

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June 20, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Integral launches OCX RiskNet customer-to-customer FX Matching Engine

FX trading technologies provider Integral Development Corp has announced the formal launch of its OCX RiskNet product. OCX RiskNet is a mid-point matching engine by which Integral’s customers such as Retail Forex brokers, banks and investment managers can offset their risk safely and anonymously with other customers. OCX RiskNet is a part of Integral's OCX Open…

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