API owns the Avon beauty brand in Europe and Latin America and is a subsidiary of the Brazilian company Natura. The North American operations are run by the South Korean company LG Household & Health Care, which isn’t involved in the current bankruptcy proceedings. API is said to have over $1bn in debt and has…
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The following article was written by Panagiotis Charalampous, Head of Community Management of cTrader at Spotware. One of the most important characteristics of good software design is its extensibility. This design principle has become more and more of a must for any software architecture in an increasingly connected and interdependent world. The introduction of Application…
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JPMorgan Chase & Co warned financial technology companies that they will be denied access to customer information if they do not sign new data access agreement by 30 July. JPMorgan plans to stop using customer passwords to gather the data. The U.S. bank sent a letter in late January to fintechs and aggregators with the…
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TradeStation Securities, Inc., the online broker-dealer and FCM operating subsidiary of TradeStation Group, has teamed up with TradingView, Inc., to launch an API-powered integration platform. Mutual customers of TradeStation Securities and TradingView will now be able to execute equities and commodity futures orders through TradeStation Securities’ back-end execution systems, from a TradingView website display screen,…
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EBS, a provider of online trading systems and technology solutions to firms in the foreign exchange industry, today revealed that it will release an advanced API streaming service on its EBS Quant Analytics platform (formerly referred to as NEX Quant Analytics), an all-inclusive analytics tool operated on a community basis. The firm plans to launch…
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MarketFactory, the foreign exchange technology platform, has just announced that their API, Whisperer, completed integration with Elysium Technology Group, an innovator in trade processing solutions for FX and futures, middle and back office product, Mission Control. A global investment bank was the first customer to go live with the integration last month. By leveraging Whisperer…
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MasterCard is one of the corporations that is big on digitalization and innovation. Currently, with around 90 of the biggest corporate giants in the world, like Google and Goldman Sachs, who are heavily investing in blockchain, MasterCard is to roll out blockchain API. According to Finextra, MasterCard has already filed for 35 blockchain patents and…
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QuantHouse is a Paris-based end to end systematic trading solutions provider.
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Continuing LeapRate’s Exclusive CEO Interview Series, today we bring to you Stephane Dubois, CEO of financial cloud company Xignite, a San Francisco-headquartered provider of financial market data on-demand. Xignite's financial Web service helps build smarter websites and applications in minutes. Last month, Xignite announced that its market cloud data platform is now available for lease. The company already…
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Xignite, Inc., a San Francisco headquartered provider of cloud-based financial data Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) announced today the ability to license the company’s Market Data Cloud platform. The Xignite Market Data Cloud is a cloud-based market data distribution solution that helps exchanges and financial data vendors distribute their data via massively scalable APIs from the…
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