Category: Exclusive

CopyCash ICO social fx trading
December 11, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Tradency's Lior Nabat and Fullerton's Mario Singh back Blockchain based social trading CopyCash.io

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that a new Asia-focused social trading and investing site called CopyCash (at copycash.io) has launched. The new Blockchain-based project is being backed by some names familiar to those in the Retail FX world, including Lior Nabat, founder and still CEO of Tradency which pioneered the mirror trading concept during the…

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Arman Tahmassebi ETX Capital
December 08, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: ETX Capital promotes Arman Tahmassebi to CEO

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that London based FX and CFDs broker ETX Capital has stayed internal to replace its recently departed longtime CEO Andrew Edwards, promoting COO Arman Tahmassebi to the CEO position at the company. As was exclusively reported at LeapRate at the beginning of November, Andrew Edwards surprised a lot of people…

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How to earn money from affiliate programs
December 07, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Plus500 removes Revshare payments from its Affiliates program due to MiFID II regulations

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that leading CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has decided to halt its Revshare payments with affiliates in its 500Affiliates.com program ahead of MiFID II regulations, moving instead to an all-CPA (cost-per-acquisition) model. While most affiliates of FCA and CySEC licensed Plus500 have been working with the CPA model to date,…

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FXDD offices
December 06, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Nukkleus, FXDD and IronFX call off planned merger

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that the long-planned merger of publicly traded Nukkleus Inc (OTCMKTS:NUKK) and related Retail FX broker FXDD with rival broker IronFX has been called off. The original deal, set in June of last year, called for a multi-stage and somewhat complicated set of transactions which would see IronFX as…

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Intel Nervana
December 05, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: ArtuData added to Intel's NERVANA Artificial Intelligence startups program

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that AI based solutions provider ArtuData has been accepted to join the NERVANA Artificial Intelligence startups program run by technology giant Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC). ArtuData is already a member of Amazon’s Startup Program and the Google Startup program. Intel recently launched the unique program for companies developing promising Artificial Intelligence technologies…

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Betex binary options platform
November 29, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Peer-to-peer Binary Options platform Betex launches ICO

LeapRate Exclusive... A new Binary Options peer-to-peer trading platform called Betex is planning to launch and - like many new companies which are basing their execution on blockchain technology - is looking to fund itself via an ICO. Betex aims to be a leading-edge platform for P2P financial derivatives trading. It enables users to place…

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