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Pepperstone launches spread betting direct from TradingView

Pepperstone has announced that its UK spread betting customers will now be able to trade directly from their TradingView terminals. Pepperstone, which recently won the TradingView Broker of the Year award, has introduced connectivity that allows its customers to link their Spread Betting account to their TradingView account and Spread Bet directly from their TradingView […]

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CMC Markets adds open banking to its funding options

News / By Darren Sinden

CMC Markets has introduced open banking payments in partnership with TrueLayer, a well-established FCA-regulated open banking services provider as an option for clients to deposit funds on account. By using open banking payments clients can quickly transfer funds without needing to remember passwords and bank account details instead they can simply use biometric data like

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Interactive Brokers Canada introduces fractional share trading in CAD stocks and ETFs

Canada, News / By Darren Sinden

Interactive Brokers the US-based online broker with operations across Europe and Asia is bringing fractional share trading to the Canadian markets. What new service is Interactive Brokers introducing? Interactive Brokers has introduced fractional share trading and clients of the firm can now trade fractionally in all stocks and ETFs listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange

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Forex.com introduces RAW forex trading spreads

Australia, Canada, News, USA / By Darren Sinden

Forex.com has improved it’s Forex liquidity via what it calls a RAW pricing account which offers customers narrow or no bid-offer spreads. Raw prices are effectively the prices that Forex.com receives from the market via its liquidity providers, and rather than marking these prices up before distribution, the prices are sent to customers directly. That

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UK is to regulate cryptocurrencies and trading as financial services and not gambling

News / By Darren Sinden

The UK Govt has decided not to pursue recommendations that would have treated retail trading in cryptocurrencies in the same way as gambling. The highly influential House of Commons Treasury Committee had called for the move in a report it published in mid-May. What was the UK Government’s response to the Treasury Committee? The Government

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HedgeFlows partners with Travelex in the launch of a secure pre-order exchange rate service

News / By Darren Sinden

Fintech payments and invoicing platform, HedgeFlows, are partnering with Travelex in the launch of a secure pre-order exchange rate service aimed at travellers and tourists. HedgeFlows and Travelex HedgeFlows is partnering with Travelex to launch a secure exchange rate product, enabling UK holidaymakers and other travellers to secure FX conversion rates ahead of their journey,

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Interactive Investor adds shareholder voting to it app

News / By Darren Sinden

Interactive Investor, the popular investment and savings platform, now owned by fund managers Abrdn, has launched shareholder voting in the latest version of its investing app. In-app shareholder voting Interactive Investor has added shareholder voting to its investing app. The new feature means eligible shareholders will now be able to vote, via the app, at

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Public, the US investment platform launches in the UK

News, USA / By Darren Sinden

The US investment platform Public has launched in the UK. The investing app is backed by celebrity investors, and in the US it offers its members access to both mainstream investments and alternative asset classes. The UK is going Public Public, which has raised $300 million in venture capital backing, is based in New York

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Spain’s CNMV introduces a ban on the marketing of CFDs to retail investors

News / By Darren Sinden

Spain’s financial regulator CNMV has tightened the regulations around the marketing of CFD trading platforms to retail customers, effectively banning the practice in the country. CNMV CFD Restrictions CNMV or the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores, which regulates financial markets in Spain, has issued new rules which prohibit the marketing of CFDs to retail

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Interactive Brokers Launches Securities Lending Dashboard

News / By Darren Sinden

Interactive Brokers, the US-based multi-asset brokerage that has operations across Europe and Asia, has launched a new securities lending dashboard that will allow investors to access stock loan and short selling data. Stock lending analytics The securities lending dashboard provides sophisticated individual investors and institutional clients with an overview of the securities lending market. Clients

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