May 24, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Coinbase rebrands its Bitcoin trading platform from Coinbase Exchange to GDAX

U.S. headquartered Bitcoin exchange and provider Coinbase announced today that as the company begins to offer additional digital currencies, they will operate Coinbase Exchange under a new brand: GDAX (Global Digital Asset Exchange). Further to this development today, the exchange announced that they have added Ether trading via the ETH/BTC and ETH/USD crosses. Founded in…

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May 24, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Barchart names Mark Haraburda as CEO

Barchart, the Chicago based full-service provider of futures, equity and Forex market data, announced today that Mark Haraburda has been named CEO. Haraburda, 38, has served as Managing Director of Business Development and Sales for Barchart since 2007. Current Barchart CEO Andrew Lowdon will continue as COO, as well as company Chairman. Haraburda joins Barchart founders Lowdon…

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May 24, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

CLS extends technology partnership with IBM by ten years

FX settlement services provider CLS Group has announced that it has renewed and extended its technology partnership with International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM) for ten more years. CLS and IBM have been partners since the inception of the settlement service in 2002 and have worked together over the last 14 years to continuously reduce settlement risk…

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May 24, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Carney: BoE wouldn't fight post-Brexit Forex moves in GBP

Bank of England (BoE) Governor Mark Carney today stated that the central bank of the United Kingdom would adopt a laissez-faire stance towards the pound no matter what decision comes during the UK-EU referendum being held on Thursday, June 23, to decide whether Britain should leave or remain in the European Union. For traders, they should expect to see…

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May 24, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Hotspot FX adds IPC Systems as a connectivity provider

Institutional currency exchange Hotspot FX, a unit of Bats Global Markets Inc (BATS:BATS) has announced that it had added IPC Systems as a connectivity provider to Hotspot, enabling IPC’s diverse ecosystem of buyside and sell-side clients to gain access to the Hotspot market. IPC Systems is a leading global provider of specialized communications and managed network-as-a-service solutions…

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May 24, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

LCH adds equities clearing on SIGMA X MTF

Global clearing house LCH has announced that it will be offering equities clearing on SIGMA X MTF from July 2016. With the addition of SIGMA X MTF, LCH’s EquityClear service will offer clearing across 17 active interoperable European equities trading venues. As a result of this expansion and LCH’s open access approach, users of multiple…

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May 24, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

CFH Clearing launches CFH Mobile in partnership with NetDania

FCA regulated interbank STP venue CFH Clearing has announced the launch of a mobile trading platform called appropriately CFH Mobile, which is now available on all tablets and smartphones. The new platform has been built in partnership with NetDania, an expert organisation in mobile trading having developed NetDania Mobile, one of the industry’s most successful…

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May 24, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Flight or Fight - is stress a good thing for traders?

This article was written by Yael Warman, Content Manager at Leverate. I never read the tabloids. Except when I’m in line at the grocery store. There is no better way to waste time while waiting than by reading a sensationalist newspaper or trashy magazine while waiting for your groceries to be scanned. Yesterday I was…

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May 24, 2016 BY Mike Fox

HotForex launches new loyalty program for traders

Brokerage company HotForex today announced they will be rewarding clients with the introduction of a tiered loyalty program that gives traders the chance to claim cash and trading service rewards such as Trading Central, advanced VPS, and one-to-one sessions with a HotForex Market Analyst. With the HotForex Trading Rewards Loyalty Program, traders earn HotForex Bars (points) for…

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May 24, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Ping An becomes first Chinese institution to join R3 distributed ledger consortium

Ping An Financial Services Group has joined financial innovation firm R3’s partnership to design and apply distributed and shared ledger-inspired technologies to global financial markets. The R3 team is made up of financial industry veterans, technologists, and new tech entrepreneurs, bringing together expertise from electronic financial markets, cryptography and digital currencies. R3 operates in New…

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