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.
March 2019
DTCC Proposes Guiding Principles for Regulating Tokenized Securities
DTCC has decided to outline function-based guiding principles for regulators and market participants for the post-trade processing of tokenized securities.
Broadridge Taps New Head of Sales, Signs Navy Federal for MBS Platform
The global Fintech leader, Broadridge has appointed Manuel Baptista as Managing Director and Head of Sales which will be based in Brussels, Belgium.
CoinFLEX Launches Physically-Settled Crypto Futures Exchange
Venture capital firms Polychain Capital and Digital Currency Group (DCG) have invested an undisclosed sum in cryptocurrency futures exchange CoinFLEX.
CMC Markets Appoints Ahmed Soliman to Manage Middle East Institutional Business
CMC Markets has appointed Ahmed Soliman as Senior Relationship Manager and is responsible sales and ongoing relationship management in the Middle East.
Market Synergy Connects Institutional Participants to Bitfinex Trading Platform
Market Synergy Launches VPS to Connect Brokers to Bitfinex.Clients can choose from a combination of CPUs, RAM and storage to connect to the crypto platform.
TradingScreen Launches OEMS, Opens Office in Montréal
TradingScreen’s Montreal operations will work in cooperation with its existing development teams in New York, London and Tokyo.
International Women’s Day 2019: Trading Industry Celebrates Women
On the occassion of International Women's Day , We celebrate Trading and investments doen by the women by their knowledge and instincts.
GSX Deploys Digital Stock Exchange Prototype on STACS Network
Gibraltar Stock Exchange group has successfully deployed Digital Stock Exchange prototype and a demo bond issuance on the STACS Network’s Global TestNet.
Private Bank Partners with CREALOGIX to Launch Mobile Banking for High Net Worth Clients
The private bank Hampden & Co partnered with CREALOGIX have launched a new mobile banking platform to extend digital services.
Saxo Bank to Offer Mainland China Bonds Trading
Saxo Bank offers full digital access to mainland China bonds via a simple «click to trade» functionality, a first in the market.
Dukascopy Launches ICO for Its Own Payment Token
Dukascopy wants to be the first regulated bank in the world to have its own cryptocurrency and to launch its Initial Coin Offering (ICO).
Gemini Reaches Thousands of Crypto Market Participants Via Radianz Cloud
Gemini has joined the British Telecommunications (BT) Radianz Cloud broker community, a BT press release reports on Feb. 27th.
Broctagon NEXUS to Provide Crypto Liquidity to Brokeree’s MT4/MT5 Liquidity Bridge
Broctagon NEXUS has partnered with Brokeree Solutions to provide them with a premium liquidity channel for Brokeree’s MT4/MT5 Liquidity Bridge.
Also filing this week: Karthik Subramanian and Abdelaziz Fathi.