Category: Forex

FlexTrade integrates ipushpull platform into FlexNOW EMS
November 21, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FlexTrade rolls out enhanced cross-OMS aggregation for MiFID II

Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade has announced the rollout of  an enhanced version of its multi-OMS aggregation functionality, an in-built feature of the FlexTRADER EMS, which allows users to merge and net orders across multiple OMSs regardless of the underlying version or implementation. According to Oliver Boatfield, EMEA Sales Director at FlexTrade UK: With…

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CrescoFX website
November 21, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: CrescoFX expands to the UK with FCA license

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that institutional boutique FX broker CrescoFX has successfully obtained a license from the FCA in the UK for its subsidiary Cresco Capital Markets (UK) Limited, with plans to expand both its institutional and Retail brokerage operations. The license was formally granted back on August 1, 2017. CrescoFX was established in…

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Aetos Sydney FC Australia A League
November 21, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex sports sponsorship: Aetos launches Australia A-League football pitch-side advertising

Continuing our series of articles covering the different ways that Retail FX brokers are putting their marketing budgets into sports related sponsorships of all kinds, ASIC and FCA licensed Aetos Capital Group has announced a match pitch-side advertising campaign with Sydney FC, the defending champions of Australia A-League football and the largest football club in Australia.…

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Chris Humphrey RationalFX
November 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

RationalFX promotes Chris Humphrey to CEO

Leading UK foreign exchange and international payments provider RationalFX has announced the appointment of Chris Humphrey as the company’s Chief Executive Officer. RationalFX co-founder Paresh Davdra is stepping down from the role to focus on his role as CEO of RationalFX’s sister-brand Xendpay. Chris Humphrey has been COO of RationalFX since 2015, and is an…

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cnmv spain forex regulation
November 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Spain regulator CNMV warns against unregulated FX sites Forex.cat and Forextrading.cat

Spain's financial regulator National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) has issued a warning regarding two .cat websites, forex.cat and forextrading.cat. We would note that forextrading.cat leads to the Spanish language website of offshore FX broker LiteForex, based in the Marshall Islands, liteforex.es. Interestingly, the .cat Internet domain is one of the issues of dispute between the Spanish…

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XTB fx broker office Warsaw
November 17, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

XTB issues response to Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) on Forex Fraud charges

Warsaw based X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), which operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub trading platform, issued today a response to reports that Poland's Financial Supervision Authority (Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego, or KNF) was going to initiate proceedings against the company for perpetrating Forex Fraud. As we reported earlier…

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November 17, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Qualcomm extends cash tender offer for all outstanding shares of NXP

Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced that Qualcomm River Holdings B.V., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Qualcomm, has extended the offering period of its previously announced cash tender offer to purchase all of the outstanding common shares of NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI). The tender offer is being made pursuant to the Purchase Agreement,…

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