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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Continuing its recovery under new management which has been sustained throughout 2017, Warsaw based X Trade Brokers Dom Maklerski SA (WSE:XTB), which operates Retail Forex broker XTB.com as well as the X Open Hub trading platform, has issued preliminary results for Q4-2017 as well as for the full year, indicating continued improved performance for the company,…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) informed that it has charged a purported hedge fund manager in New York City with a brazen offering and investment adviser fraud thereby putting an end to an ongoing scheme. The SEC alleges that, since at least 2014, Nicholas Joseph Genovese and his hedge fund Willow Creek Investments LP…
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