Derivatives marketplace CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) has announced that it achieved Asia Pacific quarterly average daily volume (ADV) of 726,000 contracts in the third quarter of the year, up 4% from the corresponding period last year. This was driven largely by a strong performance in Equity and FX products, up 41 percent and 36 percent respectively.…
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ATFX, a leading online trading broker, has announced a new selection of contract-for-difference (CFDs) products, including thirty-eight US stocks and twelve popular German ones. The newly augmented selection features leading blue-chip stocks from the tech, financial, and other main sectors. The latest addition to ATFX’s family of products includes household names such as Apple Inc.,…
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Peer-to-peer security token trading platform DSTOQ and data-secure identity verification system Blockpass have announced a joint mission to bring the compliant tokenized security and equity token trading to a global user-base. The new partnership is set to streamline security tokenization for businesses everywhere, all while making the investment process safer for anyone interested in purchasing…
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CoolBitX, maker of the first mobile hardware wallet, has just announced that the CoolWallet S now allows users to add any ERC20 Tokens, and manage them directly on the CoolBitX native app. Previously, ERC20 Token storage options were limited, and users risked losing their investments to hacks. Over $11 million in ERC20 Tokens was stolen…
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Fidelity Investments, one of the biggest US financial companies in the world, managing around $7 trillion in client assets, is now launching a completely new company that will only handle cryptocurrencies for their clients. The new entity, called Fidelity Digital Asset Services, will handle cryptocurrency trades and help institutional investors with their digital asset businesses.…
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), which provides post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, has announced it will launch a new, on demand, real time, centralized communications service for the mutual fund industry by the end of 2018, the first service of its kind from DTCC’s Wealth Management Services (WMS) division…
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CQG, a global provider of high-performance trading, market data, and technical analysis tools, has just announced a new partnership with Nasdaq Fixed Income (NFI). Under the agreement, NFI will provide the web-based CQG Desktop platform to NFI customers as the official front-end for trading NFI's U.S. Treasury Benchmark products. CQG announced earlier this year a…
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Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak has today announced that he has become the co-founder of EQUI Global, the venture capital tech innovator. Steve Wozniak has joined forces with EQUI founder Doug Barrowman and EQUI co-founder Baroness Michelle Mone OBE. EQUI Global presents a unique opportunity to disrupt the venture capital industry - one that is…
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Since the commencement of 2018, cryptocurrencies have begun to enter the mainstream of the finance world, with such major announcements as the commencement of trading in Bitcoin futures on the CBOE, Nomura Holdings announcing a foray into cryptocurrency storage and security solutions, ICE (owner of the New York Stock Exchange) announcing the formation of a…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), in its annual report on prospectus activity, has just informed the public that it has found that in 2017 the number of prospectus approvals across the European Economic Area (EEA) increased by around 1.9% compared to 2016 (from 3499 to 3567). The growth in prospectus approvals puts an…
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