Cboe bitcoin futures XBT
December 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe launches Cboe Gemini Bitcoin Futures Index (XBTX)

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq: CBOE) today announced it has created the Cboe Gemini Bitcoin Futures Index (ticker symbol: XBTX), a new strategy performance benchmark index designed to replicate a constant one-month position in Cboe XBTSM Bitcoin Futures (ticker symbol: XBT). XBT futures began trading on Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE) on Sunday, December 10. More…

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December 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Xtrade.io launching to bring FIX API access for banks and large institutional traders to cryptocurrency markets

Xtrade.io, a technology company founded by veteran Wall Street trading specialists, is introducing a new infrastructure that would allow banks, hedge funds, and large institutional traders to easily access cryptocurrency markets. By building a low-latency infrastructure with a unified FIX API, a technology used on Wall Street for over 25 years, along with a standalone…

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December 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

MarketFactory enables Bitcoin Futures trading on the CME with Whisperer FX API

MarketFactory, the foreign exchange technology platform, just announced that market participants using their ultra-low latency API for foreign exchange trading, Whisperer, can seamlessly trade Bitcoin futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (NASDAQ:CME) when they launch on December 18. Additionally, Whisperer provides access to Bitcoin market data. Our Whisperer API and connectivity solution simplifies and reduces…

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December 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

London Stock Exchange welcomes the listing of pioneering Komodo Bond Market

London Stock Exchange has today welcomed the listing of the world’s first Indonesian offshore rupiah-denominated bond – a Komodo bond - issued by an Indonesian State Owned Enterprise to its new International Securities Market. The landmark bond issuance from Jasa Marga, state-owned Indonesian toll road operator, was close to four times over subscribed. The listing…

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gain capital trading app getgo
December 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

GAIN Capital launches AI based trading app GetGo

GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP), a global provider of online trading services, just announced that it has today launched GetGo, an innovative financial trading app. The new mobile-only service uses a smart AI-enhanced algorithm to spot statistical trends in financial markets and provide users with compelling trading signals based on historical data. GetGo is…

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fca fine
December 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC reprimands and fines FXCM Asia Limited HK$2 million

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) informed that it has reprimanded and fined FXCM Asia Limited (HK FXCM) (now known as Rakuten Securities Hong Kong Limited) HK$2 million for regulatory breaches and internal control failings relating to under-segregation of client money. The SFC’s investigation found that from January 2013 to January 2015, HK FXCM under-segregated…

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Shenzhen Stock Exchange
December 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

The first Rail Transportation Special Bonds successfully issued in Shenzhen Stock Exchange

On 11th December, the 2017 Shenzhen (municipal) Rail Transportation Special Bonds (1st tranche) were successfully issued via the Ministry of Finance-SZSE Government Bonds Issuing System, which were the first rail transportation special bonds issued nation-wide following the offering of land reservation and government toll road special bonds since the pilot offering of special bonds. The…

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clone firm FCA warning
December 13, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Wee Loans clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Wee Loans. 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 to…

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