April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Visible Alpha receives ISO 27001 certification

Visible Alpha has just announced that it has received ISO 27001 certification from Schellman & Company, LLC, an ANAB and UKAS accredited Certification Body based in the United States for its information security management system (ISMS) supporting the Visible Alpha Services. ISO 27001 Certification published by the International Organization for Standardization is the leading international…

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April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Clearstream’s new offering takes T2S cross-border

Deutsche Börse Group’s post-trade services provider Clearstream has announced that it has successfully migrated the Belgian, Dutch, French and Italian markets onto its new TARGET2-Securities (T2S) Investor-CSD model. It thereby brings the first real cross-border volume onto the ECB’s pan-European settlement platform. With this move, the vision of a harmonized settlement landscape for securities across…

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April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Vela's market data feed now available via BT Radianz Cloud

BT has just announced that SuperFeed, a fully-managed market data feed designed and operated by trading and market access technology provider Vela, can now be accessed via the secure financial markets cloud community BT Radianz Cloud. SuperFeed offers customers a single source for data feeds spanning 100 global venues including BME, Cboe, CME, CTA, Deutsche…

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April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

STOXX and RiskFirst to launch LDI indices

STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Börse Group’s index business and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, announced today the launch of the new iSTOXX RiskFirst LDI index family. This new offering has been jointly developed with RiskFirst, the UK’s leading provider of risk analytics and reporting solutions to the defined benefit…

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April 19, 2018 BY LeapRate Staff

Exclusive: Masahiro Funada replaces Tomitaka Ishimura as CEO of GMO Z.com Trade UK

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that top-level management changes have taken place at FCA regulated Retail FX broker GMO-Z.com Trade UK Limited, the UK operating arm of Japanese financial group GMO Financial Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), the world's largest Retail Forex operation. We should note that the changes are part of an overall management shuffle within GMO,…

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April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

Luxembourg regulator CSSF warns against Luxembourg Offshore Banking

The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) has just issued a warning of the activities of an entity named Luxembourg Offshore Banking. The company is operating via website: http://www.luxosb.com, and claims to be established in Luxembourg. The CSSF has informed the public that the entity named Luxembourg Offshore Banking has not been granted any…

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April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

PPI complaints rise by 40% in FCA's 2Q 2017 report

Complaints about payment protection insurance (PPI) drove a 13% increase in the number of complaints made to financial services firms in the second half of 2017, according to figures published today by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). During the second half of 2017 a total of 3.76 million complaints were received, an increase of 427,032…

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April 19, 2018 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS Group releases record trading volumes in Q1 2018

CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has published its operating metrics for the month of March. These show that Q1 2018 has been a record for CLS with the highest traded volumes submitted to the service ever, topping Q1 2013.    Average daily traded volume submitted…

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