Rick Steves
Senior Reporter, Regulation and Fintech
Rick Steves has seen business and economics through many lenses. He joined the financial services industry in 2009, and has been a financial journalist since 2011. He holds a degree in Business Administration and has experience producing real-time news, from both buy-side and sell-side, as well as for retail traders, brokers and service providers. Steves' work has appeared in a variety of online publications including FX Street, NewsBTC, FinanceFeeds, and The Industry Spread. Rick has great interest in the dynamics of the trading industry. The never-ending clash between technology, economics, regulation, and more importantly, the people.
August 2021
Marnix van Stiphout Named COO of ING: Explains Role Across The Financial Industry
ING has appointed Marnix van Stiphout as chief operations officer and chief transformation officer (COO/CTO), taking up his position on 1 September 2021.
ASX’s CHESS Project “Was Not Ready to Go-Live”, Says IBM Australia
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) suffered an outage on 16 November 2020, triggered by a major upgrade to its equity trading platform, ASX Trade.
TigerWit Opens Office In Dubai As Part of Expansion to Africa and Middle East
TigerWit has opened a "sales and customer service center" in Dubai, UAE, in a move that further expands the broker's fooprint in the region.
6 Crypto Exchanges Account for 89% of Market Share – Report
CryptoCompare has updated its Exchange Benchmark, based on a comprehensive methodology assessing counterparty, operational, trading, and security risks.
Binance Restricts Trading In Australia After ASIC Warning
Binance has announced that, with immediate effect, users from Australia will be restricted from opening new accounts for options, margin products, and leveraged tokens.
Boerse Stuttgart’s Crypto App BISON Announces Limit Orders
Boerse Stuttgart Group continues to launch new features on its crypto trading app, BISON. This time: limit orders.
Religare Broking Launches US Stocks for Investors In India
Religare Broking has partnered with Vested Finance to introduce foreign stock markets on its broking platform for Indian customers.
Stock Exchange of Thailand Goes Big on Data: SMART Marketplace
The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has launched an online data platform to help investors analyze and make investment decisions more efficiently.
Eurex to Launch Futures on MSCI Brazil
The firm addresses growing demand for investment and trading instruments focused on the LatAm region.
Solidatus Deployed In UK Public Sector In The Wake of Pandemic
The British Business Bank, the UK's business development bank, has selected Solidatus to enhance its data governance and data lineage capabilities.
ANZ Promotes Farhan Faruqui to Chief Financial Officer
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, also known as ANZ, has announced the appointment of Farhan Faruqui as Chief Financial Officer.
Refinitiv Integrates GIACT’s EPIC Platform And World Check for Enhanced KYC
Refinitiv has bundled the EPIC Platform from GIACT and World-Check to be accessible together via a single API.
Also filing this week: Karthik Subramanian and Abdelaziz Fathi.