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Swissquote is in Love With Tesla, Launches Car Leasing Program

Swissquote is in Love With Tesla, Launches Car Leasing Program

Swiss banking group Swissquote has launched a new car leasing to help Swiss customers to buy new Tesla cars. The move aims to help the firm's expansion in the credit sector. The service, however, should be implemented yet.... Read more.

NAGA Reports Solid Q3, Neo Bank And Shares Rally 19%

NAGA Reports Solid Q3, Neo Bank And Shares Rally 19%

Social trading platform and brokerage NAGA Group announced that its digital bank NAGA Pay would be launched on November 15, finally. According to a pr... Read more.

Swissquote Launches Three New CFDs on Asian Indices

Swissquote Launches Three New CFDs on Asian Indices

Swiss banking group and brokerage Swissquote announced the addition of three new contracts for difference, also known as CFDs, based on Asian equities... Read more.

NAGA to Expand to Australia And South Africa

NAGA to Expand to Australia And South Africa

Social trading platform NAGA announced its plans to expand services to Australia and South Africa in the next few months, according to a press release... Read more.

eToro Purchases Marq Millions to Support Its Debit Card Business

eToro Purchases Marq Millions to Support Its Debit Card Business

Social trading and multi-asset brokerage company eToro has announced the acquisition of Marq Millions, the end to end financial solution provider, acc... Read more.

eToro is Now a FINRA Member And Offers no Cost Trading

eToro is Now a FINRA Member And Offers no Cost Trading

The social trading and investing platform eToro announced that its office in the United States would allow traders to invest, open and close positions... Read more.

FXCM Offers Fractional Shares, Commission Free CFD Trades

FXCM Offers Fractional Shares, Commission Free CFD Trades

CFD focused trading platform FXCM is now supporting fractional share investments and zero commission trading in most of its CFD tradable assets, accor... Read more.

Cboe to Launch Europe Derivatives After Buying EuroCCP

Cboe to Launch Europe Derivatives After Buying EuroCCP

The Chicago Board Options Exchange is going to Europe to open its very own Cboe Europe derivatives platform as soon as the first half of 2021. In what... Read more.

Plus500 Shares Decline Hard Despite Record Client Activity

Plus500 Shares Decline Hard Despite Record Client Activity

The United Kingdom based online trading platform Plus500 has reported an increase of more than 100K new customers since the beginning of the second qu... Read more.

Bahamas Regulator to Implement Tougher Trading Frameworks

Bahamas Regulator to Implement Tougher Trading Frameworks

After weeks of pressure from the European Union and the addition of The Bahamas in the EU blacklist of countries amid insufficient anti-money launderi... Read more.

FXCM Launches Six New Stock Baskets; Adds to Forex And Crypto

FXCM Launches Six New Stock Baskets; Adds to Forex And Crypto

From now on, customers of FXCM offices in Australia and South Africa will be able to trade groups of stocks as one single CFD asset that will allow th... Read more.

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