Paul Boyle OBE is currently Chief Audit Officer at Aviva plc, a position that he has held for the last four years, and, in August 2012, was appointed to the Group Executive Committee. Prior to this, Mr. Boyle was Chief Executive of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC)
Read moreLeapRate has learned from regulatory filings with the London Stock Exchange that investment house JP Morgan has reduced its holdings in CFD broker Plus500 (PLUS.L) to just under 5% of the company's outstanding shares. As of December 9, JPM's holdings in Plus500 were reduced to 5,738,332 shares (worth about £31.7 million), down from 6,710,399 shares held previously.…
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Read moreInteresting interview today in Israeli business website Globes with CFD broker Plus500 co-founder and Managing Director Alon Gonen. Plus500 is arguably one of the most successful forex startups from Retail Forex's golden age of new firm creation in the late 2000's, having successfully gone public on the London Stock Exchange (LON:PLUS) with a market cap…
Read moreCyprus maintains its position as a favored region in which to establish financial services companies with 22 licenses having been issued by CySec in 5 months, including to prominent companies Plus500 and Myfxbook
Read moreFollowing steadily increasing share prices and a continued healthy commercial position, Plus500 non-executive Director Charles Fairbairn purchased 9,644 Ordinary Shares of NIS 0.01 each in the Company at a price of 518 pence per share, taking his stake to 0.15% of Plus500's issued share capital
Read moreLeapRate Forex Weekly Look Back – Week of October 20th FxPro preparing to launch FxPro Prime Brokerage services | https://www.leaprate.com/kEf3i Bye bye MetaTrader 4! MONEX Group formally announces phase-out | https://www.leaprate.com/mmAAu Plus500 triples its worldwide revenue in Q3 2014 | https://www.leaprate.com/7Iyao Op-ed: FX business now shares equities’ margin shrinkage | https://www.leaprate.com/CgQTN Infinigon launches API for…
Read moreJust a heads-up note for our readers. Those of you in Barcelona over the next few days might want to check out the Financial Partners Expo, being held at Barcelona's International Convention Center Friday and Saturday. The expo brings together many affiliates and IBs serving the Forex and Binary Options sectors, with leading brokers (such as ETX…
Read moreThis quarter has followed a very different pattern than last one for Plus500 (LON:PLUS). Last quarter (Q2), the old maxim 'buy the rumor and sell the news' seemed to hold, with Plus500 reporting robust results but seeing its share price tumble after reporting those results. This time it was different. Plus500 shares completed a two-day runup…
Read moreLean operations and in-house initiatives have been a boon as Plus500 reports nine month revenues of $162.4m, 151% higher than revenue for the comparative period of 2013 and surpassing the total revenue generated in the whole of 2013 by 41%
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