Canada based Retail FX broker and currency services provider OANDA has announced the appointment of Philip Holemans as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). He will be responsible for optimising the firm’s financial performance, ensuring compliance with global accounting standards and helping direct OANDA’s growth strategy in the coming years. With almost 20 years of…
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Online trading and investment specialist Saxo Markets today announces the launch of a new referral program, Close the Gender Gap, designed to encourage more women to start investing in order to close the gender investment gap and take better ownership of their financial future. “While the gender wage gap has been in the spotlight the…
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SWIFT today announces the launch of SWIFT Go, a new service that enables small businesses and consumers to send fast, predictable, highly secure, and competitively priced low-value cross-border payments anywhere in the world, direct from their bank accounts. SWIFT Go enables financial institutions to offer a seamless payments experience for low value transactions often initiated…
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The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and Michael Ackerman, the leader of a fraudulent cryptocurrency scheme that cost its victims $35 million, are discussing resolution of the criminal proceedings. This becomes clear from the latest document filings with the New York Southern District Court. The parties in this case had sought an adjournment of…
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Online broker eToro is further expanding its crypto offering. The company has added MAKER (MKR) and ENJIN (ENJ) to the list of cryptoassets available to trade via its investment platform. Now available on the eToro investment platform are the following cryptoassets: MAKER (MKR) is one of the earliest projects on the decentralized finance (DeFi) scene,…
Today, at Southwark Crown Court, His Honour Judge Tomlinson sentenced Ian James Hudson to 4 years’ imprisonment for one count of fraudulent trading, with two additional terms of 14 months, each reflecting a breach of s19 FMSA, to run concurrently following his earlier guilty plea, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said. This followed charges…
The following is a guest editorial courtesy of multi-asset global broker Admirals. There are some hybrid analysis tools that well-informed CFD traders should pay careful attention to; they’re are a mixture of technical and fundamental analysis. With these hybrid widgets and apps, you get the visual illustration that a technical indicator offers, combined with and…
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CME Group today posted a notice of disciplinary action against Tradition Securities & Derivatives LLC. The company has proposed an offer of settlement in which it neither admitted nor denied the alleged CME Rule violations. The rules that Tradition allegedly violated are the following: RULE 526. BLOCK TRADES (in part) The Exchange shall designate the…
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TradingView today announces that it has added yet another feature – customizable indicator visibility. Traders can select a specific interval on which the indicator added to the chart will be displayed, or indicate a range (for example, show the instrument only on hourly timeframes). The visibility of indicators is configured in line with drawing tools…
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As Citi continues to challenge a district court ruling against it in a lawsuit about $900 million sent by mistake, the bank has secured the support of academia. A letter of the so-called “friends of the court” (amici curiae) offers Citi some backing in its fight against those recipients of the money that refuse to…
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