On April 13 2019 the FCA regulated online CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) announced that it is starting a Share Buyback Programme. The broker has already purchased a certain number of its ordinary shares of ILS 0.01 each through Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Limited. Details of the purchase can be seen below: Plus500 will hold…
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FCA regulated online CFDs broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has announced that it has just added WhatsApp to its range of communication channels. The broker is the first derivatives firm to offer full customer support across desktop and mobile devices via WhatsApp 24/7. Currently offered in English and other selected European languages, WhatsApp joins Plus500’s existing…
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FCA regulated online CFDs broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has announced its preliminary unaudited results for the year ended 31 December 2018 - the company set a new record in terms of financial performance. The company’s Board noted back in November 2018 that Plus500’s results for the financial year ended 31 December 2018 will be ahead of previous market expectations. Some…
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FCA regulated online CFDs broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has issued a second Trading Update during Q4. After indicating (in late October) that its Q3 Revenues fell by 40% from the previous quarter to $100.1 million, Plus500 has now announced that the strong momentum reported in its Q3 Trading Update has continued into November to date. Accordingly, the…
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FCA regulated online CFDs broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has continued to make purchases of its own stock pursuant to a recently announced share buyback. The company announced that last week it acquired a total of 30,455 PLUS shares, at an average share price of £12.744, for a layout of £388,119. That brings the grand total of shares…
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FCA regulated online CFDs broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has begun its recently announced share buyback fairly slowly, with the company acquiring a total of 8,155 of its own shares via broker Liberum Capital in open market transactions since first announcing the buyback late last month. Plus500 paid an average price of £12.9655 per share, for a grand…
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The "ESMA effect" is certainly beginning to be felt by some of the leading Forex and CFD brokers. FCA regulated online CFDs broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has issued a Trading Update for Q3, indicating that Revenues fell by 40% from the previous quarter to $100.1 million (and were just about a third of record Q1 revenues…
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Shares of leading publicly traded Retail FX and CFD brokers traded down on Wednesday and early Thursday, in concert with the global stock market selloff taking place over the last 24 hours. Led by a dive in US shares on Wednesday which saw the Dow Jones and S&P indices off by more than 3%, and…
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LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that FCA regulated online CFDs broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has acquired another large institutional shareholder, with US investment giant BlackRock Inc. (NYSE:BLK) picking up a 7.02% interest in Plus500. At current market prices of £14.48 for PLUS the BlackRock stake in Plus500 is worth £115.8 million (USD $152 million). Most of the…
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