Stocks plunge, and treasury yields gain on the last trading day of 2022
Friday was the last trading day for financial markets in 2022. Wall Street equity indexes lost value during the day, but Treasury yields reported a slight gain. Oil futures are also up as investors braced for the start of 2023...
NAGA Group to return to the UK after reporting a 51% revenue increase in H1 2022
Recently, NAGA Group published its H1 financial report for the period from January 1st, 2022 to June 30th, 2022. The report appears to be quite positive for the company, which managed to earn over 35 million EUR. This represents a...
FX Back Office announces the integration of Match-Trader
FX Back Office is a major firm offering CRM software for FX brokers. The company recently announced plans to enhance its offerings, and the way it decided to do it is by integrating Match-Trader. Match-Trader is a third-party trading platform...
FCA revokes license from Union Standard International
Union Standard International Group Limited is a UK-headquartered subsidiary of the leading USG Group. Previously known as USGFX, the UK-based subsidiary recently lost its FCA license, meaning that it can no longer offer its products and services in the country...
Hedge funds to have bad returns this year amid aggressive interest rate hikes
Hedge funds are expected to report their worst returns in 14 years this year. The returns reported by these financial firms will be affected by the aggressive interest rate hikes in the United States that have triggered a notable decline...
Justly Markets gets a $100k fine for failing to preserve records
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) recently fined a private securities placement platform, Justly Markets. According to the regulator, the platform has violated certain rules, which earned it a $100,000 fine. Justly Markets agreed to pay $100k for the violation...
Admirals just got a Kenyan license; next, it plans to go to Seychelles
Capital Markets Authority (CMA), the financial regulator of Kenya, recently issued a license for Admirals, a non-dealing online forex trading broker based in Estonia. The company has been seeking global expansion, and it seems particularly interested in African countries. In...
Russian rouble under stress amid the pressure of Western sanctions
The Russian rouble has been retreating, dropping by over 3% yesterday. The rouble has failed to make a strong recovery after a sharp drop last week after the market became anxious over the possibility of dropping export revenues amid restrictions...
Price for used Tesla drops at a faster rate compared to other car models
The price for used Teslas has been dropping drastically and at a much faster rate compared to other car models. The drop comes after a period of high demand where people could flip Teslas to other buyers who did not...
OKX to improve user access to DApps through a partnership with DappRadar
OKX, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, has announced a partnership deal with DappRadar. The partnership seeks to allow OKX users to access a wide range of decentralized finance (DeFi) and GameFi offerings on DappRadar. OKX partners with DappRadar DappRadar...
Japan-based bank MUFG made a $200m investment in Akulaku
Japan-based bank holding and financial services firm Mitsubish UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), recently decided to invest $200 million into an Indonesian firm, Akulaku. Akulaku acts as a banking and digital finance platform, and it is the business name of a...
French investors are suing Binance for crypto promotions
Binance previously got into quite a bit of trouble after it was discovered that it had been offering services and/or products in areas where it lacked the appropriate licenses to do so. Since then, the exchange has done a lot...
Bitget’s MegaSwap goes live, connecting CeFi and DeFi
Bitget, a major cryptocurrency exchange, saw great potential in the DeFi sector, as well as a growing interest in DeFi features among its following. This is why the platform decided to introduce a new DeFi feature known as MegaSwap. The...
CMC Invest ventures into the ESG space amid high investor demand
CMC Invest, one of the largest stock trading platforms, has ventured into the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) industry. The stock brokerage platform will allow investors to display ESG data within its mobile investing platform, offering shares, exchange-traded funds (ETFs),...
US Court grants bail to former FTX CEO based on a $250m personal recognizance bond
Following the collapse of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested and was facing criminal charges in the Bahamas. The US arranged to have him extradited, which he agreed to and signed the document earlier this week. He then traveled to the...