Israel’s ISA pulls investor awareness ads following Binary Options ties to campaign celebrity Pini Gershon LeapRate

January 25, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Israel's ISA pulls investor awareness ads following Binary Options ties to campaign celebrity Pini Gershon

Israeli financial regulator the Israel Securities Authority (ISA) has come under scrutiny once again due to Binary Options, but this time from a different angle. After more than a year of public and media pressure for the ISA and its then-Chairman Shmuel Hauser to "do something" about the rash of Binary Options brokers based in…

January 23, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Supreme Court rejects appeal against Israel Binary Options law

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via court filings made in Israel (see source below) that the country's highest court has rejected an appeal made against the new Binary Options ban legislation. As such, Israel's Binary Options ban law takes effect today, January 23, 2018, as planned. All Binary Options activity, from offering binary trades to…

December 26, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Binary Options ban law appealed to Israel Supreme Court by Yukom's Yossi Herzog

News sources in Israel, as well as certain blogs close to the Binary Options sector, are reporting that Israel's new Binary Options law has been challenged to the Israeli Supreme Court. The appeal has been brought by lawyers representing Yossi Herzog, the major shareholder in binary options group Yukom Communications Ltd which has operated a…

October 29, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Forex Industry Week Review: Binary Options law passes, FX platform legal battle, Atom8 acquired, Alpari returns, and lots more…

In a wild week of Forex Industry News including regulatory action, legal battles, acquisitions, new licenses, FX broker results... Which country's legislature passed a new comprehensive anti-Binary Options law? Which leading Australian broker expanded to the UK, buying an FCA regulated Retail FX brand? Which FX platform and tech solutions provider is at the center…

Good news for Bitcoin investors: Israel might cut tax on profit by half

October 24, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Binary Options ban legislation (finally) passes in Israel

After months of behind-the-scenes lobbying and resulting delays, Israel's Binary Options bill was passed in the country's Knesset parliament late Monday, in a (rare) unanimous 53-0 vote. The vote came in the opening day of the Knesset's winter session, after intense industry lobbying efforts were able to delay the Binary Options bill from being introduced…

August 20, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FX Industry Week Review: Israel Binary Options law delay, Forex.com fundraising, and lots more…

While the online trading industry was taking somewhat of an end-of-summer breather with less press releases, deals, executive hires and the like, there was still plenty of Forex Industry News to report. How is internal party politics delaying Israel's new Binary Options ban legislation from being actually implemented? Why is Forex.com parent Gain Capital Holdings Inc…

August 14, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Israel's Binary Options law delayed (again) by internal ruling Likud party politics

After we exclusively reported at the end of July that Israel's Binary Options law, still working its way through the mechanisms of the country's Knesset parliament, would be delayed into Q1-2018 at earliest, online newspaper The Times of Israel has written up a dramatic report of the final day of deliberations on the bill at the…

August 06, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FX Industry Week Review: Israel law changed, Apple and Google yank Binary Options apps, and lots more…

This week Forex Industry News at LeapRate had it all. Regulatory back-and-forth including a change and delay in Israel's long-awaited Binary Options law. New Forex sports sponsorships. Broker results. Executive moves... Why was Israel's Binary Options Law delayed, and how was it changed from its original intention? Which regulator got both Apple and Google to pull…

August 03, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Criminal syndicates are behind Israel's Binary Options industry, police tells Knesset panel

Continuing our coverage of Israel's Binary Options Law, which this week is being debated in the Knesset's Reforms Committee, presentations at yesterday's meeting included riveting and quite pointed testimony from representatives of Israel's police. Israel's police, which was noticeably absent from Monday's initial debate at the committee, was indeed present on Wednesday with Police Chief…

August 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Israel Binary Options Law changed to allow unlicensed Forex and CFD trading

News sources in Israel are reporting that the country's new legislation meant to outlaw all aspects of the Binary Options industry from operating in the country has been watered down from its original version. We had earlier exclusively reported that implementation of what's now known as the Israel Binary Options Law has been delayed to…

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