smartTrade increases presence in Australia, strengthens partnership with NAB LeapRate

September 24, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

smartTrade increases presence in Australia, strengthens partnership with NAB

National Australian Bank (NAB), Australia’s leading bank for businesses in the region, and multi-asset, end-to-end trading solutions company, smartTrade Technologies, have just announced that they have extended their ongoing relationship. NAB FX business is powered by LiquidityFX, smartTrade’s flexible end-to-end trading platform. LiquidityFX was selected in 2014 as a market connectivity solution for NAB, offering…

September 20, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Market manipulation charges for Perth corporate advisor Ananda Kathiravelu

Mr. Ananda Kathiravelu, of Perth, Western Australia, is a a corporate adviser to a series of Australian companies, including Armada Capital Pty Ltd. Kathiravelu has been in the financial services business for over 20 years and has served as a director to a number of companies. Mr. Kathiravelu has been charged with conspiracy to manipulate…

September 18, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

ACY Securities partners with derivatives markets fintech provider Finlogix

ACY Securities, a Sydney based ASIC-regulated multi asset broker, just announced that it has teamed up with Finlogix, an emerging fintech provider in the global derivatives markets. Finlogix provides a technologically inspired suite of trading widgets designed to equip traders with cutting-edge tools such as live market data, real-time HTML 5 charting, an all-encompassing economic…

LeapRate interview: Defense against toxic flow, Jeff Wilkins speaks

September 17, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Five crypto and blockchain developments that you might not have heard of

News cycles come and go. A few years back, articles covering the crypto space were few and far between, often only speaking to Bitcoin and what some regulator or government official had to say about the strange new substitute for fiat currency. Fast forward until today, and there are a multitude of websites, this one…

September 13, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

New Zealand FMA adds Ashwood Holdings Limited to its warning list

New Zealand Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has recently added another name to its list of unregulated firms. The latest addition is the company Ashwood Holdings Limited. According to the regulator, Ashwood Holding Limited and www.ashwoodholdingsltd.com could be involved in a scam which is associated with Grace Investment, Regal Investment, and Duke Valentines Limited. It is…

September 12, 2019 BY Mariela Naydenova

Invast Global adds former Wallaby, Rod Kafer, as Director of Prime Services

Rod Kafer was a former Australian rugby union player for the Australian Wallabies. He served as the coaching director for the team, before joining Invast Global, a multi-asset prime brokerage company, as a Director of Prime Services. While the transition may seem rather surprising for some, Mr. Kafer actually worked in the financial services industry…

September 12, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: ECB further cuts 10 basis points in interest rates

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for September 12, 2019. See details below: Updated: ECB STIMULUS Today’s announcement of a further cut of 10 basis points in interest rates and the launch of a new asset purchase program mean the ECB is taking very seriously the slowdown in…

September 11, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Financial Options' AFS licence suspended until February 2020

Australian regulator announced earlier this week that it has suspended the Australian financial services (AFS) licence of Queensland-based financial services provider Financial Options Pty Ltd. The licence is suspended until 26 February 2020. According to the regulator, Financial Options was not meeting its obligations as an AFS licensee. The company has failed to have a dispute…

September 09, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hex Trust and TradAir to enable trading for digital assets held in custody

Asia-based digital assets custodian Hex Trust announced earlier today that it has selected TradAir to provide clients with the ability to trade digital assets directly from the Hex Safe custody platform. Hex Trust bridges the gap between traditional custody and the digital asset world. Hex Trust now extends trading capabilities to its users, deploying TradAir’s…

September 09, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Global Prime teams up with Gold-i to offer liquidity through the Matrix Net platform

Australian-based Prime of Prime broker, Global Prime, announced that it has teamed up with FinTech company Gold-i to offer its liquidity through Gold-i’s multi-asset liquidity management platform, Matrix Net. As of this month, Global Prime’s institutional liquidity - FX, CFDs (metals, indices and cryptocurrencies) and NDFs - will be available to Gold-i’s extensive global client…

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