Digital Vega, a FX Options e-trading platform and provider of FX Options trading solutions, has just added three new executives to its ASIA and EMEA team. Simon Nursey will be Digital Vega's new Head of Asia. Prior to Digital Vega, Nursey has worked for Standard Chartered Bank and BNP Paribas. Asa Attwell joins from Nomura…
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Exclusive LeapRate interview... Ashley Jessen, Head of Marketing at ACY Securities joins LeapRate today to discuss the company's latest partnership, the launch of their new live market analysis and more. Ashley has been involved in the financial services industry since the year 2000 and is the author of CFDs Made Simple and contributed a chapter…
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There’s gold in them thar hills, or so say-ith the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and most other major taxing jurisdictions across the globe. After years of lenient auditing practices with regard to crypto tax collection, officials have suddenly realized that there could be enormous payoffs, ripe for the picking, for only investing a few million…
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Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has released its trading volumes report for the month of September 2019. You can see the highlights below: FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) The total trading volume of FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) was 1,678,016 ( -43.6% MoM / -20.4% YoY ) and its average daily trading volume was…
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LeapRate Exclusive... Matt Porter, ATFX (UK) Head of Operations - Institutional Desk, joins LeapRate today to discuss the recent launch of the company's new institutional desk offering ATFX Connect. During his career, Matt Porter has also been employed at Morgan Stanley and Nat West/Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). From these roles, he has gathered solid…
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New Zealand Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has recently added two more names to its list of unregulated firms. The latest additions are the companies 55CMT and Circleforex and Yuanhui. According to the regulator, 55CMT could be involved in a scam and www.circleforex.com as this website claims to be associated with FSP476086 in New Zealand which…
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Australian watchdog ASIC announced earlier today on its official website that it has banned Kyle Marshall from providing financial services for 3 years. According to the regulator, Marshall had not complied with financial services laws and lacked fundamental knowledge and competency relevant to providing financial services. Marshall was an authorised representative of Sentinel Private Wealth…
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On September 23rd, 2019, Clearstream Banking and the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) teamed up to launch a link for investment funds. Clearstream is an international central securities depository. The partnership will enable cross-border funds transactions to be completed. In particular, the new link will be between the mutual fund platform FundConnext (SET) and Clearstream's global…
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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) announced today that it has banned Ye Feng from re-entering the industry for life following his conviction for bribery. Ye Feng, a former vice president of the Bank of Communications Co., Ltd. (BOCOM), is responsible for handling securities transactions for BOCOM’s clients at the material time, guilty…
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Euronext has announced that it has successfully launched the Euronext FX in Singapore. The venue was launched months ahead of schedule with the first spot foreign exchange trades occurring on September 9, 2019 between two global banks. LeapRate reminds that the pan-European exchange in the Eurozone announced the rebranding of FastMatch, its Electronic Communication Network…
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