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Most shareholder votes at most widely held publicly traded companies are not exciting affairs, with outcomes almost always pre-decided and in favor of what the board recommends. But this one promises to be interesting. After yesterday the Playtech board issued a Supplementary Circular which reset a shareholder vote for August 18 to approve the planned…

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Estonia based Retail FX and CFDs brokerage group Admiral Markets AS has announced that the Supervisory Board of  the company has appointed Andrey Koks as a new member of the Management Board as of 2 August 2021. The Management Board of Admiral Markets AS now consists of three members: Sergei Bogatenkov, Andrey Koks and Jens…

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Forex and crypto broker tech provider Match-Trade Technologies has announced that it has joined forces with Squaretalk, a global interactive business communications platform, to expand the range of functionalities offered to Forex brokers in the company’s proprietary Client Office CRM. Match-Trade said that it continues to enhance its product offer and was seeking the best…

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London based institutional-focused multi asset broker Equiti Capital UK Limited (Equiti UK) has announced that it has received a USD $10 million capital injection from parent Equiti Group Limited. The company said that the USD$10 million increase in share capital will strengthen Equiti UK’s balance sheet, and support a number of strategic business expansion initiatives…

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Financial market infrastructure company TP ICAP (LON:TCAP) has released a Trading Update for the first half of 2021, which CEO Nicolas Breteau characterized as reflecting “challenging trading conditions, caused by the combination of very quiet secondary markets and the ongoing disruption from COVID-19.” TP ICAP reports revenues in four divisions: Global Broking; Energy & Commodities;…

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The retail forex broker love affair with sports sponsorships and brand ambassadors continues, with the latest firm jumping on board being Dublin based AvaTrade, which has introduced legendary sprinter Usain Bolt as its new Brand Ambassador. This is actually not Usain Bolt’s first foray into retail forex – while he was still active as a…

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Cloud-based international payment and currency risk management firm Cornerstone FS plc (LON:CSFS) has announced that it has appointed a new team to market the Group’s services to businesses located in Asia, with a primary focus on firms supporting high net worth individuals (“HNWIs”) acquiring real estate in the UK. The company said this is a…

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FNG Exclusive… FNG has learned that FX broker tech and connectivity provider FXCubic has hired Dubai based Mounir Fallah as its new Middle East representative, with its sights clearly set on expanding in the MENA region. Mounir Fallah had been involved the past four years with UAE based offshore Retail FX broker FXQuantum. He has…

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In a year which has been anything but normal, some normalcy has returned to the institutional FX trading market. The normally slow summer months look like they will be – normally slow! Following a very strong but up-and-down first half of the year for leading institutional eFX venues, trading volume data for July show a…

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After canceling a required shareholder vote in mid July to approve the sale of its Financials division Finalto, online gaming tech provider Playtech (LON:PTEC) has now announced that it has reset the vote for August 18. Playtech canceled the vote on the agreed-upon sale of Finalto – which includes Playtech’s forex/CFDs B2B business alongside the…

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