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UK's Financial Conduct Authority Warns Of Increased Risk Of Online Investment Fraud, As Investors Lose £87k A Day To Binary Options Scams

Date 29/01/2018

• Over £87,000 lost to binary options scams every day in the UK
• Under 25s are six times more likely to trust an investment offer made via social media, compared to those aged 55+
• Online overtakes phone as most common contact method for investment fraudsters

Volante Technologies And BNY Mellon Collaborate On Payments Technology Innovation

Date 29/01/2018

Volante Technologies Inc., a global provider of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of payments and financial messages, announced today that it has been collaborating with BNY Mellon on creating and deploying technology to enable real-time payments in the US and internationally.

12 Solactive Benchmarks Used As The Basis For 12 New ETFs Issued By Mackenzie Investments

Date 29/01/2018

Mackenzie Investments, a leading investment management firm headquartered in Toronto, announced the launch of 12 ETFs this week, all of which will be tracking Solactive benchmark indices. These indices are part of a growing range of Solactive benchmarks aimed at providing broad-based access to different segments of the equity and fixed-income markets with country, regional, and global exposure through market- cap-weighted strategies.

OpenDoor $10M Funding Round To Support Platform Innovation

Date 29/01/2018

OpenDoor Securities LLC (“OpenDoor”), the first all-to-all marketplace for illiquid US Treasuries, has completed a third $10 million investment round. The funds will help to accelerate its rapid business expansion by hiring additional experienced sales and marketing executives and introducing a series of major enhancements to the award-winning platform.

CloudMargin Named To List Of 100 Most Influential FinTech Companies For 2018

Date 29/01/2018

CloudMargin <https://cloudmargin.com/#utm_source=Press&utm_medium=Release>, the multi-award winning creator of the world's first web-based collateral and margin management solution, announced today that the firm has been named to Harrington Starr's Definitive List of the 100 Most Influential FinTech Companies for 2018. The list includes a mix of start-ups and well-known companies in the financial technology space. The full list of financial technology companies expected to create a significant impact in 2018 was just published in the first quarter issue of The Financial Technologist <https://oliver-dev.s3.amazonaws.com/2018/01/22/13/40/08/764/TFT%20Q1%202018%20FINAL%20LOW.pdf> magazine.

TASE Launches 6 New Tel-Bond Indices - Four Indices Are Rating-Based And Two Are Sector-Based: Tel Bond-Shekel Banks & Insurance Index And Tel Bond-CPI Linked Real Estate Index

Date 29/01/2018

S&P Global Ratings: Global Green Bond Issuance Is Expected To Shoot Up Further, Report Says

Date 29/01/2018

S&P Global Ratings said today that strengthening green bond market fundamentals are likely to fuel about a 30% increase in self-labeled instruments globally in 2018, in a report published 

today, "Green Bond Issuance Is Expected To Shoot Up Further."

Frankfurt's Stock Exchange Building To Become Focal Point For The Financial Centre - Deutsche Börse To Invest €18.5 Million By 2020 - Conference Centre And Interactive Experience For The General Public To Be Created

Date 29/01/2018

Deutsche Börse is expanding the historical building in the centre of Frankfurt –  the location for the famous trading floor and the Frankfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce are located – into an attractive contact point for the financial centre Frankfurt and the general public. The company will invest a total of €18.5 million in expanding until the start of 2020. The lease with the Frankfurt Chamber of Industry and Commerce, the owner of the building, has been agreed until 2048.

Turnover In Wikifolio Certificates Reaches Record High At Boerse Stuttgart - Trading Volumes More Than Doubled In 2017 - Certificates Amongst Most Frequently Traded Investment Products

Date 29/01/2018

Wikifolio certificate trading reached a new record high at Boerse Stuttgart in 2017. Customer orders worth EUR 316 million were executed – more than twice the trading volume achieved in 2016. Compared to the previous turnover record year of 2015, this represents an increase of around 70 percent. Boerse Stuttgart has been working with the wikifolio.com social trading platform since 2012 and is the exclusive listing venue for the wikifolio certificates issued by Lang & Schwarz.

FlexTrade Integrates BestX Trade Analytics Into FlexTRADER EMS - Enhances FX Best Execution Capabilities Under MiFID II

Date 29/01/2018