Equiti Capital Offers FX, Metals, CFD Liquidity Through Gold-i
Equiti Capital's Prime Broker division made its FX, metals and CFD liquidity available through Gold-i, opening up significant new business opportunities.
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.
February 2020
TraderEvolution Adds Autochartist to Its Trading Platform Offering
Autochartist has been fully integrated its automated market analysis software suite into the TraderEvolution multi-market trading platform.
IOSCO Issues Crypto Trading Report for Regulators
The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a report on crypto-asset trading platforms (CTPs).
AnaCap Acquires Wealth Tech Platform Wealthtime
AnaCap Financial Partners has agreed to acquire leading wealth tech platform, Wealthtime, which consolidates the investment portfolios and financial assets.
Beeks Launches Anti-DDoS Security
Beeks Financial Cloud has launched a new feature of enhanced DDoS protection with real-time alerts and monitoring via our Partner Portal.
Copper.co Integrates DV Chain’s OTC Liquidity
Copper.co has integrated with OTC liquidity provider DV Chain to provide its institutional clients with liquidity through its prime brokerage platform.
Ortex Launches Bloomberg Alternative for Retail Investors
Ortex launched Bloomberg, making their market-leading data and unique, proprietary analysis of the stock market available to private investors.
Archax to Support Polymath’s ST20 Standard on Digital Asset Exchange
Archax exchange has partnered with security token platform Polymath to support tokens that are created using Polymath’s ST20 standard.
Institutional Exchange DVeX Deploys CQG’s Front-End Platforms
Broker-focused fintech firm CQG has agreed to deliver front-end platforms to institutional crypto exchange DVeX so its clients get access to diverse tools.
UBS Australia Deploys GBST’s Post-Trade Automation Platform
The Australian branch of UBS has extended its long-term partnership with GBST to include the Syn~ post-trade automation platform.
AxiCorp ‘Stays’ Following Appeal Against ASIC License Suspension
AxiCorp has appealed ASIC's decision to suspend the broker's AFSL license to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) which has monitored ASIC's decision.
R8 Group’s Mode Launches Bitcoin Mobile App in UK
London-based fintech firm Mode has launched its Bitcoin banking mobile iOS app. Available to users globally, except in the United States of America.
Broctagon Helps Singapore to Adopt Blockchain
Broctagon has partnered with Hashstacs to help bring blockchain in Singapore to more commercial usage through a collaborative digital money project.
January 2020
Sumitomo Chooses First Derivatives’ Kx to Build New e-FX Platform
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation has chosen First Derivatives' Kx to build and manage its next-generation e-FX platform under a multi-year agreement.
Coinbase Appoints Ex-Google Surojit Chatterjee as Chief Product Officer
Coinbase has appointed Ex-Google Surojit Chatterjee, former Vice President of Product at Google, as its new Chief Product Officer.
Ex-Coinbase COO Hirji Joins Blockchain Lending Platform as President
Financial services veteran Asiff Hirji has been named President of Figure Technologies as the firm looks to expand financial products.
Nomura Launches Crypto Asset Index for Institutional Investors in Japan
Nomura has partnered with MV Index Solutions (MVIS) and Intelligence Unit (IU) to jointly launch the NRI/IU Crypto Asset Index for financial institutions.
Also filing this week: Karthik Subramanian and Abdelaziz Fathi.