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After recently receiving its crypto trading license, Bermuda domiciled electronic trading venue 24 Exchange has announced the acquisition of New York-based technology and service provider 11B Technologies. 11B Technologies was established last year by former FXCM co-founder Eduard Yusupov (pictured at right). The company has been providing low latency software and connectivity solutions for 24 Exchange…

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TradingView announces that spread betting through Сapital.com is now available on the platform for traders in the UK and Ireland. Spread betting is a tax-free derivative product that enables traders and investors to benefit from the price fluctuations of underlying financial assets: including stocks, commodities, indices, and currency pairs. A flexible form of trading, spread…

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FlexTrade Systems, which provides multi-asset execution and order management systems, and fintech FINBOURNE have announced a collaboration to integrate FlexNOW – FlexTrade’s one-click install EMS – with FINBOURNE’s LUSID which is a cloud native, API first Portfolio Management System (PMS) and Investment Data Management System (IDMS). Servicing the entirety of the buy side, clients using…

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Banco Santander’s payment fintech, PagoNxt, announced that its merchant payments business is launching in Europe under the Getnet brand. Foreign and domestic merchants of all sizes in some 30 countries, whether or not they are customers of Banco Santander, can now use Getnet’s wide range of secure, reliable and straightforward payment solutions for easier and…

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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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Monex Asset Management, Inc, a subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698), today announced that the assets under management of its discretionary investment management service “ON COMPASS+” exceeded 10 billion yen on July 26, 2021. ON COMMPASS+, launched in January 2019, offers a hybrid asset management service, combining robo-advisory and human support. To support customers in…

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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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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,…

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