Category: Brokers

techfinancials
March 27, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

TechFinancials issues 3.87 million shares to DragonFinancials binary options JV partner Optionfortune

Binary options platform provider and broker TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) has announced that it has issued 3,868,615 of its shares to the owners of its joint venture partner, Optionfortune Trade Limited. Optionfortune operates the DragonFinancials binary options broker, focused on Chinese and Far East clients. As we reported in early June, TechFinancials had actually placed the shares in…

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March 27, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Binary Options broker Anyoption requests affiliates sign letter on marketing use of German TV star Robert Geiss

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that binary options broker Anyoption has sent a circular out to its affiliates, regarding unauthorized advertising and promotion which one or more of its affiliates has been doing. Apparently, one or more Anyoption affiliates has been actively marketing the company in Europe using the images of Robert and Carmen Geiss…

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March 24, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Regulated broker Opteck drops Binary Options from its trading lineup

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Cyprus regulated broker Opteck (operating at opteck.com) has recently dropped Binary Options from its list of tradable assets. Opteck, which is a brand of CySEC CIF license holder Centralspot Trading Ltd, has been operating for several years and marketing itself mainly as a Binary Options broker. As a licensed CIF…

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March 09, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Interactive Brokers to leave options market making to 'order internalizers'

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS:IBKR) announced that it will discontinue options market making activities globally, which are conducted through its Timber Hill companies. The Company expects to phase out these operations substantially over the coming months and intends to continue conducting certain trading activities in stocks and related instruments. Thomas Peterffy, Chairman and CEO,…

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March 09, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Binary options broker Suisse Option receives warning from Canadian regulator BCSC

Continuing its string of warnings against unregulated brokers and other scams targeting retail traders in Canada, Canadian securities regulator the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has added to its Investment Caution List unregulated binary options broker Suisse Option, operating from website suisseoption.com. According to the BCSC, Suisse Option claims to be based in Hong Kong, and…

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TechFinancials converts loan into Footies
March 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

TechFinancials to receive additional $1.5 million payout from Asia binary options JV DragonFinancials

Binary options platform provider and operator TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) has announced that it will receive an additional $1.5 million dividend payout from its DragonFinancials joint venture subsidiary, which focuses on the Asia Pacific region. This follows the $1 million dividend which TechFinancials received from DragonFinancials last November. We had reported last September, when TechFinancials announced…

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February 27, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Binary Options broker OptionRally receives warning from Canadian regulator OSC

Continuing its string of warnings against unregulated brokers and other scams targeting retail traders in Canada, Canadian securities regulator the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has added to its Warning List offshore binary options broker OptionRally, operating as TCM Investments Ltd. from website optionrally.com. According to the OSC, OptionRally is not registered in Ontario, Canada to engage in the…

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