Oil Brent crude prices breached the $90 level, the highest level since 2014, joining a broad risk-on Wall Street move and shrugging off a somewhat bearish EIA crude oil inventory report.  Energy traders are anticipating higher energy prices on potential geopolitical risks and as OPEC+ will stick to their plan to deliver another modest increase […]

  OANDA Senior Market Analyst Ed Moya previews the day’s market news with Jonny Hart. They discussed markets, preview the FOMC decision, recap the BOC hawkish hold, oil price volatility and all the fundamental drivers, and cryptos.

Reading Time: 4 minutes When I was a young boy, I quickly learned that grabbing hold of the end of hot poker was not advisable.  Welcome to the world of blind speculation.   When speculating, there is nothing wrong in losing a bit of money; it’s all part of the game and a lesson […]

Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s been a terrible past few weeks – new investors who came to the markets expecting to see instant gains have been disappointed, but hopefully, this experience will make them better traders over the long term.   Many will be focusing on the recent collapse of cryptocurrencies. Those who remain […]

No breakout yet, though The pound has been range-bound against the Canadian dollar for the last week and that remains the case so far today, despite the Bank of Canada holding off on raising interest rates. It had been expected to start the tightening cycle today, with the market’s pricing in up to five more […]

The British pound has ticked higher, trading just above the 1.35 line in the North American session. We could see stronger movement from GBP/USD later today, after the release of the FOMC policy decision. The British pound is sensitive to risk, so a strong reaction from the financial markets will likely be reflected in the pound’s […]

Days after falling to a 6-month low, bitcoin rose for a second consecutive session, as prices slowly approached its key level of $40,000. Today’s gain in BTC comes as the global crypto market cap was 4.7% higher from yesterday’s session, as of writing. Bitcoin The world’s largest cryptocurrency hit an intraday high of $38,415.90 on […]

SACCR is the Standardised Approach to Counterparty Credit Risk (CRE52 under the consolidated Basel capital framework). It covers calculations for Credit Risk Weighted Assets and exposures under the Leverage Ratio (known as the Supplemental Leverage Ratio, SLR, in the US). It will impact the amount of Tier 1 capital banks must hold. SACCR means that […]

Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. Here comes the Fed! Well not really, but this week we got a lot more insight into what the Fed’s is thinking with the release of a discussion paper that examines the pros and cons of a potential U.S. CBDC.   Federal […]

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David Ornstein steps into a newly-created role of chief operating officer (COO) at Baton.

BCB Group, Europe’s leading provider of business accounts and trading services for the digital asset economy, announced today

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