CMC Markets

CMC Markets Plc | March 15, 2018

Online trading platform CMC Markets Plc said on Thursday it had launched contracts for differences (CFDs) and spreadbetting offerings for cryptocurrencies following significant interest from its users. CFDs and binary options are financial products that give an investor exposure to price movements in securities without actually owning the underlying assets such as a currency, commodity or stock.The trading feature would only be accessible to CMC's professional client base, the company said....

PayPal | January 16, 2020

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) today announced that it processed a record $10.3 billion in donations to charities around the world in 2019, and more than $1 billion in the month of December alone, as mobile and other digital channels continue to change how donors engage with nonprofit organizations. Twenty-one percent of all donations processed by PayPal in 2019 were made through mobile devices. "Our efforts to drive social impact and create value for all of our stakeholders continue ...

BlackRock | January 15, 2020

BlackRock Inc.'s assets scaled $7 trillion for the first time, putting the spotlight on the world's largest money manager's growing reach. The investment giant took in $128.8 billion in net new money in the fourth quarter of 2019, where exchange-traded funds drew big inflows. That is up from the $49.8 billion in net flows in the year-ago period. BlackRock's quarterly net profits rose 40 percent to $1.3 billion. The company's fourth-quarter earnings of $8.29 a share exceeded W...

Lambert, Casteel Schoenborn | January 14, 2020

Lambert & Co., a top-10 investor relations firm and a top-5 private equity communications agency nationally, today announced the acquisition of Casteel Schoenborn Investor Relations & Corporate Communications. The deal marks Lambert's seventh transaction and second in the last two months. The transaction advances Lambert's strategy to be the nation's leading integrated investor relations and public relations firm for emerging and established market leaders through...