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TradeStation today announced it is offering crypto traders, investors, institutions and third parties access to trading crypto via a financial information exchange (FIX API) protocol through TradeStation Crypto, Inc. The FIX API protocol standard is designed for trading financial markets in real-time and at high speed. TradeStation Crypto, a subsidiary of TradeStation Group, Inc., offers…

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International derivatives marketplace CME Group announces that Micro Ether futures volume surpassed 500,000 contracts on January 24. Tim McCourt, CME Group Global Head of Equity Index and Alternative Investment Products, commented: “The arrival of micro-sized contracts for both Bitcoin and Ether futures in 2021 has taken our cryptocurrency product offering to the next level. We’re…

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NFT Investments (AQSE:NFT) has entered into a non-binding letter of intent (LOI) for the acquisition of Pluto Digital PLC, a crypto technology and venture company, for a consideration of £96 million. The acquisition, which is conditional on shareholder approval, will create a significant global metaverse company and advance NFT’s investments in the non-fungible tokens sector…

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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken German Nino, a registered representative and investment adviser representative associated with UBS Financial Services Inc, to Court over a theft of $5.8 million from a client. According to the SEC’s complaint, submitted at the Florida Southern District Court on Friday, January 21, 2022, between May…

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The directors of Robinhood Markets face a derivative lawsuit over their alleged misconduct which caused damage to the company and its investors. The lawsuit was brought by Robert Zito, a stockholder of Robinhood. The complaint, seen by FX News Group, is for the benefit of nominal defendant Robinhood Markets, Inc., and is against Robinhood’s Board…

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JKO Play Limited, the acquisition entity set up by former Formula 1 owner Eddie Jordan and ex Ladbrokes executive Keith O’Loughlin, has issued a brief statement that it is does not intend to make an offer for Playtech (LON:PTEC). The Eddie Jordan group emerged as a potential bidder for online gaming and financial services company…

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Shares of online gaming tech and financial services company Playtech plc (LON:PTEC) traded down by 26% on Friday, after news broke that a competing bid for the company from JKO Play was not going to happen. Before markets opened on Friday, JKO Play – set up by former Formula 1 owner Eddie Jordan and ex…

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About a month after the Department of Justice (DOJ) urged the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit to uphold the wire fraud convictions of James Vorley and Cedric Chanu, the former Deutsche Bank traders have responded to the DOJ’s brief. The document, filed by Vorley and Chanu on January 21, 2022, uses…

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StoneX Group Inc (NASDAQ:SNEX) has published detailed compensation data concerning its top management, including Glenn Stevens, the former CEO of online trading company GAIN Capital, which was acquired by StoneX in the summer of 2020. Mr Stevens, who joined StoneX as Head of Retail and Foreign Exchange on August 1, 2020, earned a bonus of…

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