British blockchain startup Electroneum, has just announced it has become the first cryptocurrency to join the GSMA in a move that will accelerate its integration into the world of mobile payments. Electroneum has been making waves beyond the crypto niche, signing MOUs with several global telecommunications and payments companies. In addition, the cryptocurrency has been…
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RoboForex, an international financial broker, just announced that it is expanding the list of cryptocurrencies available for trading via MT4 and MT5 platforms. Apart from Bitcoin and Ethereum, the Company’s clients will have an opportunity to trade Bitcoin Cash, Dash, Litecoin, and Ripple. New instruments are already available for trading. RoboForex continues expanding access to…
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The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. There are two types of financial-market players—those who trade, and those who “buy and hold” (B&H). Many recent investors in the cryptocurrency market are of the B&H variety and are in it for the long haul. There is an old expression in the financial markets—bells…
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Nasdaq Inc. (Nasdaq:NDAQ) and Palestine Exchange (PEX) annouced that they have signed a new market technology agreement for Nasdaq to deliver new matching engine technology via the Nasdaq Financial Framework architecture to Palestine’s stock exchange. PEX, which will also continue to use Nasdaq’s SMARTS surveillance technology for monitoring its market, will leverage the modular functionality…
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ELITE, London Stock Exchange Group’s international business support and capital raising programme for high-growth companies, today announced that it has partnered with the Small and Medium Enterprises Authority in Saudi Arabia (Monhsa’at) to support the launch of ELITE in Saudi Arabia. Twenty ambitious Saudi small and medium sized companies (SMEs) have been unveiled today as…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) today announced volume and highlights for Cboe Europe Equities for January 2018, summarising the first month of equities trading under MiFID II. January highlights include the following: Cboe Periodic Auctions sees significant uptake: The Cboe Periodic Auctions book reported a record month of volume trading more than €6.5 billion…
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Eurex Clearing, a part of Deutsche Börse Group, noted a strong increase in demand for its OTC clearing services. In January, the Average Daily Volume cleared in the OTC interest rate segment increased by factor seven to 35 billion Euro from 5 billion Euro in 2017. We are very pleased that our partnership program is…
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Monex Group, Inc. (TSE 8698, Oki Matsumoto, Representative Executive Officer and CEO) has reported the following monthly volumes for the month of January 2018. Number of total accounts was a bit up to 1,749,768 MoM. Average number of trades per business day has also made a slight rise to 153,086. Number of OTC FX accounts…
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Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has just released its market report for the first month of 2018. Total trading volume across Moscow Exchange`s markets in January 2018 was RUB 58.0 trln. The key growth drivers were the Bond Market (+103.2%YoY) and Equity Market (+10.1%YoY). FX Market turnover grew by 5.9%YoY. The number of trading days in January…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) reported several daily volume records on Friday, February 2. Trading of options on the Cboe Volatility Index® (VIX®) at Cboe Options Exchange reached a new all-time high on Friday, February 2 with a reported 4.3 million contracts traded, surpassing the previous single-day record of 3.1 million contracts on December…
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