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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is facing challenges related to the supervision of entities implementing innovative business models. This becomes clear from a speech delivered today by ASIC Chair Joe Longo at the AFR Super & Wealth Summit. Mr Longo commented on decentralised autonomous organisations (or DAOs, being a whole new form of…

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Saxo Bank, the online trading and investment specialist, today announces the addition of nine new Crypto FX pairs to its TradingView offering, marking the latest round of integration of the capabilities from its new Crypto FX service with the established TradingView platform. Saxo clients using TradingView, a social trading platform that offers advanced charting tools…

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Centroid Solutions, a technology provider that combines real-time analytics, sophisticated risk-management, and advanced connectivity solutions for multi-asset brokers, has announced that it has signed a strategic business partnership agreement with Fair Trading Technology (FTT), a rapidly growing brokerage solutions providers in the fintech industry. FTT’s vision is to become a leading digital, data driven, innovative…

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It was rebranding week in the FX sector, with two of the better known Retail FX/CFD brands in their respective markets, Vantage FX and ETX Capital, deciding to shake things up and change their respective brand names. But, it seems, for different reasons. How will Vantage FX and ETX Capital now be known? What is…

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Although Robinhood was among the companies that managed to escape the conspiracy claims brought by traders embroiled in the January trading short squeeze, the online trading company still faces a set of additional allegations, including ones about negligence and breach of duty of care. After the plaintiffs in a multi-district litigation against Robinhood filed their…

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Olivier Vigneron has been designated as Deutsche Bank’s Group Chief Risk Officer, effective June 1, 2022. Subject to regulatory approvals, he will succeed Stuart Lewis, who in March announced his decision to retire after the Annual General Meeting 2022 after 25 years’ service. Olivier Vigneron will join Deutsche Bank as a Senior Group Director on…

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FNG Exclusive… FNG has learned that Natallia Hunik, Global Head of Sales and Chief Revenue Officer of FX direct market access provider Advanced Markets, has resigned from the company. We understand that she is leaving for another opportunity, outside of the FX/online trading sector. Natallia Hunik, one of the better known personalities in the FX…

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CME Group has published a notice of disciplinary action as to GFI Securities LLC. The company agrees to pay a fine as a part of a settlement related to violations of several rules of the Exchange. Pursuant to an offer of settlement that GFI Securities LLC, in which GFI neither admitted nor denied the rule…

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State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT) announced today that it expanded its academic partnerships with the addition of two esteemed professors from top Boston-based business schools. State Street Associates(SSA), the academic and data science research arm of State Street, will partner with Antoinette Schoar, a finance professor at MIT, who joins in an effort to see clients…

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MarketAxess Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:MKTX), operator of a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, and provider of market data and post-trade services for the global fixed-income markets, announced that it has added Egypt (EGP), Hong Kong (HKD) and Serbia (RSD) to its EM local markets offering. Local currency trading, which now also includes onshore Chinese…

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