FX Firm Joins Mexican Bitcoin Exchange’s $2.5 Million Fundraise
September 29th, 2016
Bitcoin exchange startup Bitso has raised $2.5m to make it easier for the underbanked in Mexico to gain access to financial services. Among the investors is Mexico-based foreign exchange, Monex Group, which last year conducted $160bn in transactions in Europe, the ...
European Parliament Begins Panama Papers Inquiry
September 29th, 2016
The European Parliament has begun its inquiry into the Panama Papers with a hearing with the investigative journalists behind the leak. The European Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry into Money Laundering, Tax Avoidance, and Tax Evasion (PANA) held its first ...
Most Emerging Stocks Decline Before Oil Talks as Ringgit Weakens
September 28th, 2016
Financial and energy shares pace drop among industry groups Taiwan’s financial markets remain shut because of typhoon Most emerging-market stocks fell, led by financial and energy companies, as investors awaited a meeting of major oil producers seeking an output ...
LMAX Exchange expands in the US with the launch of a New York-based exchange
September 27th, 2016
LMAX Exchange, the leading MTF for FX, today announced the expansion of its global infrastructure with the launch of its North American matching engine in the Equinix International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centre in New York (NY4). The LMAX ...
Deutsche Bank Shares Drop on Fears of Capital Raising
September 27th, 2016
Intensifying concerns about Deutsche Bank AG’s financial health caused its shares to drop Monday and pushed the company into the awkward position of publicly denying that it had sought help from the German government. Shares of Deutsche Bank, one of the ...
CBOE Holdings Agrees to Acquire Bats Global Markets in a $3.2 billion deal
September 26th, 2016
CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) and Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats: BATS) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement, which has been approved by the Board of Directors of each company by unanimous votes of the ...
Asia Stocks Fall as Oil Rebounds Before Output Talks; Lira Sinks
September 26th, 2016
Turkey’s lira extends slide after Moody’s cut rating to junk Crude rebounds ahead of OPEC talks aimed at limiting output Asian stocks dropped by the most in two weeks and futures foreshadowed losses in European and U.S. equities as ...
Customer Support Officers
September 23rd, 2016
Overview: Trade Finance is in our DNA. For more than 10 years, XTrade has helped global traders with access to the world’s largest and most liquid market. By offering the most innovative trading tools, hiring the best trading educators, ...
Bitcoin vs Litecoin vs Dogecoin – Cryptocurrency compared
September 22nd, 2016
Cryptocurrency was made mainstream by Bitcoin a few years back and with its popularity rising, everyone seems to want a piece of the cake. The currency was launched in 2008 by Japanese pseudonymous developer Satoshi Nakamoto to encourage the growth ...
Cash is no longer king
September 22nd, 2016
Contactless technology means debit cards are becoming increasingly popular for payments even for lower value transactions. Cash is now being used for less than half of all retail transactions, new figures show. Debit cards are now increasingly being used ...
