Goldman Sachs junior banker charged in Insider Trading scheme LeapRate

May 31, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Goldman Sachs junior banker charged in Insider Trading scheme

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced charges against an employee of prominent investment bank Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) with repeatedly using his access to highly confidential information in order to place illicit and profitable trades in advance of deals on which the bank was providing investment banking advisory services. According to the SEC’s complaint,…

March 13, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Crowdfunding giant OurCrowd hires Goldman Sachs banker Lina White to head new London office

Israel based crowdfunding company OurCrowd has announced the hiring of Goldman Sachs alternative investments banker Lina White as the head of its newly opened London office - its tenth dedicated location worldwide. The new London office will support OurCrowd’s growing community of UK investors interested in funding early stage high-growth companies. With a current reach of…

February 01, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

LMAX Exchange buys out Paddy Power Betfair stake for £21.9M with Silicon Valley Bank funding

Institutional FX exchange provider LMAX Exchange Group has announced that it has completed an equity purchase of Paddy Power Betfair plc’s remaining stake in the business. The 31.35% stake (or 187,811 shares) was bought from Paddy Power Betfair for £21.945 million, valuing LMAX Exchange at £70 million. The buyback brings 95% of the company under the control…

February 01, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Invast Global adds KPMG partner and risk expert Michael Cunningham as non-executive Director

Australia based boutique multi-asset prime broker Invast Global has announced the appointment of ex-Citigroup, Goldman Sachs Treasurer and former KPMG Partner Michael Cunningham as a Non-Executive Director to its Board of Directors. ASIC licensed Invast Global is a subsidiary of Jasdaq-listed Invast Securities Co. Ltd. (TYO:8709), and has grown over the past few years to…

January 15, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Saxo Bank hires Sberbank executive Damian Bunce as its new Chief Client Officer

Copenhagen based multi asset broker Saxo Bank has made another senior addition to its executive management team, announcing the appointment of Damian Bunce as the company's new Chief Client Officer (CCO). Mr. Bunce's appointment becomes effective February 19, 2018. He joins Saxo Bank’s executive team and will report directly to Kim Fournais, CEO and Founder.…

October 03, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FlexTRADER executes large block trade from Goldman Sachs using IOI functionality

Multi-asset execution and order management systems company FlexTrade Systems has today announced the successful execution of a large block trade from an actionable Indication of Interest (IOI) sent by Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) within the FlexTRADER EMS. The trade was completed using FlexIOI - a new, customisable feature of FlexTRADER which allows users to trade on…

June 30, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Goldman Sachs now down to below 3% holding in CMC Markets

LeapRate Exclusive... Further to our exclusive report earlier in the week that longtime CMC Markets Plc (LON:CMCX) shareholder, New York based investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS), had decided to sell down its stake in CMC Markets, LeapRate has learned that Goldman has indeed continued to sell, now down to below the 3% reporting threshold…

June 26, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Goldman Sachs selling its stake in FX broker CMC Markets after recent share runup

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that global investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) has been steadily selling down its stake in UK based online FX and spread betting broker CMC Markets Plc (LON:CMCX) over the past few weeks. Goldman Sachs has been a long term investor in CMC Markets, and in fact was…

March 27, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Vontobel joins as issuer on Swissquote's Swiss DOTS, adds 10,000 leveraged products

Swissquote Group Holding SA (SWX:SQN) has announced that it is expanding its range of products on the Swiss DOTS trading platform, with the addition of new issuer Vontobel Investment Banking. Approximately 10,000 additional leveraged products will be issued from launch. This complements the existing offering from UBS and Goldman Sachs as well as from Commerzbank…

March 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Teddy Sagi cashes in $138 million of Playtech shares to fund run by ex Goldman Sachs bankers

It looks like someone is making a big bet on Playtech. Online entrepreneur Teddy Sagi has indicated in filings with the London Stock Exchange that he has sold 13 million shares of publicly traded Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) to the UK arm of Paris based asset manager Boussard & Gavaudan for £113.4 million (USD $138 million). The stake represents about…

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