The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has marked some progress in its action against a number of entities and individuals involved in a large-scale binary options scheme. According to recent filings with the Texas Western District Court, the CFTC has obtained entries of default as against Leeav Peretz, Nati Peretz, Blue Moon Investments…
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Specialized payments platform Paysafe Limited (NYSE:PSFE) today announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2021. Total revenue for the third quarter of 2021 was $353.6 million, a decrease of 1%, compared to $355.5 million in the prior year. Growth was partially offset by a $7.7 million impact of a business divestiture (Pay Later)…
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Nasdaq Inc (NASDAQ:NDAQ) today announced the launch of the Retail Trading Activity Tracker, a new dataset that provides reliable information into the trading activity of self-directed retail investors in the U.S. equity market. The Retail Trading Activity Tracker tracks stocks and exchange traded funds (ETFs) traded by individuals as well as buy/sell ratios per ticker…
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Financial markets data science firm FairXchange has announced that it has been selected by Deutsche Börse’s 360TGTX for independent execution analytics. FairXchange’s Horizon has been integrated with the 360TGTX platform to analyse trade and pricing data. This will support the 360TGTX Liquidity Management and Sales teams in having mutually beneficial data-driven discussions with both liquidity…
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SC Ventures, Standard Chartered Bank’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm, announced the launch of letsbloom, a fintech that will give clients operating in regulated industries (such as financial services, healthcare and government) the ability to securely build, deploy, and run business applications on the cloud quickly and cost efficiently. letsbloom has two offerings: letsbloom…
Austria’s financial regulator Financial Market Authority ((FMA) has issued a statement that it warns investors against concluding transactions with StormGain LLC, operating from website stormgain.com. StormGain is an offshore retail cryptocurrency broker, operated from Europe and Israel. It has its officially registered address in popular offshore jurisdiction St. Vincent and the Grenadines. The FMA stated…
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The Yuh app, launched by Swissquote and PostFinance in May 2021, is beefing up its functionalities. The app has launched fractional trading. With this new feature Yuh users will be able to invest in fractions of financial products: Shares, ETFs, Themes and Crypto starting from 25 CHF. Let’s note that this new investment feature requires…
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Euronext announces that SPEAR Investments I B.V., a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), has listed on Euronext Amsterdam (ticker code: SPR1). This is the 18th SPAC-listing on Euronext markets in 2021. SPEAR has a multi-disciplinary team, combining equity capital markets professionals, M&A professionals, investment professionals, C-suite and senior leaders, operators and technology experts and founders….
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today charged Puneet Dikshit, a partner at a global management consulting firm, with illegally trading in advance of a corporate acquisition by one of the firm’s clients in September. The SEC’s complaint alleges that in the course of providing consulting services, Dikshit learned highly confidential information concerning…
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The following is a guest editorial courtesy of Andrew Lane, CEO of sentiment-based technology company Acuity Trading. Is Amazon turning from being the unstoppable ecommerce juggernaut to a rapidly aging giant? What else could explain the stock underperforming its mega-cap tech peers through October? It has been a tough year for Amazon so far. It…
