TMX Group Limited (TSX:X) announced December 2017 trading statistics for its marketplaces – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange (Alpha) and Montréal Exchange (MX). MX achieved two new volume records for the S&P/TSX 60 Index Standard Futures (SXF) – a monthly record of 959,682 contracts traded, as well as a daily record…
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The French regulator AMF and FranceAgriMer announced that have signed an agreement aimed at strengthening their cooperation to enable the AMF to more effectively perform its new duties in relation to agricultural commodity derivatives markets and FranceAgriMer to fulfil its role of understanding and organizing such markets. Following the 2007-2008 economic crisis, the regulatory framework…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Trinity Wealth Management. 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…
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Technology moguls are by far the most frequent leaders to speak about the value of blockchain, Bitcoin and the overall cryptocurrency market. While central banks and governments are fighting against the power and revolution the digital currencies have created, technology leaders seem to understand and embrace the currency of the "future" constantly. Facebook's founder and…
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In the digital currency market, nothing seems impossible these days. The total market cap of the whole market is now totalling $750 billion. One of the cryptocurrencies contributing to this massive market is none other by the so-called Dogecoin. Dogecoin was created as a joke to mimic the 2013 meme of a dog that went…
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Your Weekly Trading Review by UFX.com – Sunday, January 7th, 2018 EU Zone Enters 2018 with Good Results The Markit's Final Composite Purchasing Managers' Index, which tracks the growth of the EU zone announced excellent results for the year. The report rose to its highest value since February 2011. EU ended 2017 with its strongest growth in…
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In the first week for Forex Industry News of 2018... Why did institutional FX player LMAX split its operations into two separate FCA regulated companies? What drove Plus500 to (yet another!) record quarter in Q4? What problems are FX brokers having in managing risk and liquidity from clients increasingly trading cryptos? And, what can be…
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Elering AS, an independent electricity and gas system operator in Estonia, and WePower, a blockchain based green energy trading platform that aims to drive global green energy adoption and promote sustainable living, have announced a pilot project to test the large scale tokenization of Energy data on the blockchain in Estonia. This project is the…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has released its annual report with great results and a record high in Market capitalisation. The highlights can be seen below: Securities Market Market capitalisation was $34 trillion at the end of 2017, a record high and representing a year-on-year increase of 37 per cent. The Hang Seng…
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The following article was written by Richard Craddock, Chief Executive Officer of ATFX. In November 2007, just before the financial crisis, the European Union enacted the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). The directive’s goal was to create a unified financial bloc with dynamism and depth of the U.S. capital markets. In 2010, after the crisis,…
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