Monex Group, Inc. (TSE 8698, Oki Matsumoto, Representative Executive Officer and CEO) has reported the following monthly business metrics of its subsidiaries in December 2017. Global DARTs (DARTs stand for Daily Average Revenue Trades meaning the number of trades and transactions per day which generate revenue) dropped with 11% to 267,264 MoM. Number of total…
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ResearchPool, the global digital platform for investment research, just announced that it has signed a new partnership with Invest Securities, the independent French intermediation company with expertise in brokerage, analysis office, issuers department. Invest Securities and ResearchPool have agreed on a partnership to offer investment companies with a state of the art, MiFID 2-compliant solution…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that Pepperstone senior executive Phil Horner has departed the company, in what seems to have been something of an internal power struggle at the Melbourne, Australia based Retail FX broker. Mr. Horner had spent six years working his way up the ranks at Sydney based ASIC licensed broker AxiTrader, joining…
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On January 8th, a high-level conference was held in Beijing between Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) and China Railway Corporation, where both parties entered into a strategic cooperation agreement. Wu Lijun, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Administrative Committee of SZSE, and Lu Dongfu, Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of…
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The Nova Scotia Securities Commission (NSSC) announced that it has issued a cease trade order against West Nova Agro Commodities Ltd. According to NSSC, the company, a Nova Scotia community economic development corporation, violated securities laws by failing to file continuous disclosure documents. The director of corporate finance ordered West Nova Agro Commodities Ltd. to…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) announced that it is now providing its Cboe One real-time stock quote and trade information to Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI). The Cboe One feed is a market data product from Cboe Global Markets that provides cost-effective, high-quality quote and trade information for market participants looking for comprehensive, real-time market data…
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Kodak was once the most powerful photography company, tracing its roots back to the middle of the1880s. While Kodak may have been forgotten by some people due to the "smartphone era", the company is now entering what most technology companies cannot get enough of, i.e. Blockchain and ICOs. Today, on 9th January, 2018, Kodak announced…
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The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) has appointed Rongrak Phanapavudhikul as Executive Vice President (EVP), Head of Legal Affairs Division, to oversee Legal Department, Enforcement Department, Corporate Secretary Department, and Compliance Department, effective from January 16, 2018. SET President Kesara Manchusree said: Rongrak has experience and expertise in legal affairs, especially in providing consultation, advice…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today a first badge of position management controls under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). MiFID II requires Member States to ensure that an investment firm or a market operator operating a trading venue which trades commodity derivatives apply position management controls. Investment firms or…
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Ambitious even by cryptocurrency standards, ICO boutique firm Chaineum has announced the launch of a planned €300 million ICO for Money by Design (moneybydesign.io). Money By Design’s stated purpose is to launch what it calls the first real digital currency in history - by reassessing the uses of money for more fluid transactions and virtuous socio-economic…
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