On March 29, Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) held the signing ceremony of Agreements on the Listing of Securities (2018 Revision), signally the official start of work on signing the new agreements. This is another major move of SZSE to implement the newly amended Measures on the Administration of Stock Exchange (the “Measures”) for perfecting institutional…
Read moreZ.com Trade, the FCA regulated brokerage arm of Japanese retail forex giant GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), has announced that effective today the execution mode on its Classic Account will be changed to Market Execution. Currently Z.com Trade's Classic Account uses the Instant Execution mode, however this setting unfortunately limits the liquidity sources available. This change is necessary…
Read moreTokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has just released its trading volumes report with mixed results for March 2018. The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 222,918 ( +80.1% MoM / -16.3% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 10,615. 項目 March 2018 Trading Volume Daily Average Change on Previous Month Year on Year…
Read moreElectronic trading solutions provider TradingScreen has announced a new partnership with Liquidnet, a global institutional trading network, to further benefit buy-side customers’ order access and execution capabilities. The partnership allows for integration with TradingScreen's order and execution management system TradeSmart, enabling users to access Liquidnet's global pool of institutional liquidity and advanced trading strategies. TradeSmart is a…
Read moreThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it has charged the pastor of one of the largest Protestant churches in the country and a self-described financial planner in a scheme to defraud elderly investors by selling them interests in defunct, pre-Revolutionary Chinese bonds. The SEC's complaint alleges that, in 2013 and 2014, Kirbyjon Caldwell,…
Read moreThe UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Personal Loan Now. Fraudsters are using the details of firms, authorised by the FCA, to try to convince people that they work for a genuine, authorised firm. Fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics…
Read moreAfter a stellar start to 2018 trading, Forex ECN FastMatch has reported a somewhat expected decline in activity during the month of March. After seeing two of its best months ever in January and February, FastMatch FX trading volumes declined by 11% MoM in March 2018, coming in at $18.8 billion ADV. FX trading volumes…
Read moreAfter setting two consecutive trading volume records in January and February, data from institutional Forex ECN Cboe FX Markets – formerly known as Hotspot FX – indicates that the company saw a marked decline in activity during March. After reporting daily average trading volumes of $44.3 billion in February 2018 and $42.6 billion ADV in January to…
Read moreAfter we reported exclusively in October about the launch of a new cryptocurrency copy trading platform called Covesting.io, LeapRate has learned that Covesting has successfully completed an ICO raising $18 million, and is getting set to launch the beta testing of its platform. Covesting - a fintech startup launched by former Saxo Bank traders -…
Read moreForex Industry News and commentary this past week at LeapRate was clearly dominated by ESMA's (not so surprising) decision to cap Forex and CFD trading leverage at 30x - and that just for Forex major pairs. All other instruments, including cryptocurrencies, will be subject to an even lower leverage maximum. How did leading EU brokers…
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