HKEX expands its presence in Asia with the opening of a Singapore office LeapRate

December 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

HKEX expands its presence in Asia with the opening of a Singapore office

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) announced that it expands its presence in Asia with the opening of the Singapore office of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (SEHK) and the Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited (HKFE), wholly-owned subsidiaries of HKEX. The Belt and Road Initiative and fintech (financial technology) present tremendous growth…

December 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

MAS to strengthen the process of determining SGS and MAS Bills closing prices

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) today published a consultation paper proposing a framework to strengthen the process of determining Singapore Government Securities (SGS) and MAS Bills end-of-day prices (Closing Prices). This is in line with MAS’ broader efforts to enhance the integrity of the processes for setting financial benchmarks. As of end October 2017,…

December 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Boerse Stuttgart acquires fintech company Sowa Labs GmbH

Boerse Stuttgart announced that it has acquired 100 percent of Sowa Labs GmbH with effect from 30 November. The fintech company, which is based in Ulm, Germany, specialises in predictive data analytics and has been analysing data by using proprietary artificial intelligence since 2013. Its core area of business is real-time analysis of the rapidly…

December 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

fscom appoints Payment Services Regulator James Borley as new Head of Assurance

Financial planner company fscom announced that it has appointed James Borley as Director and new Head of Assurance. Prior to joining fscom, Borley spent more than 20 years at the FCA, in a broad range of regulatory roles, where he was responsible for the authorisation, supervision and monitoring of a wide range of regulated firms,…

December 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe reports increasing usage of new Complex Order Options Functionality

After sharing some really good monthly volumes with the public today, Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Nasdaq:CBOE) continues to brag with its new Complex Order Options Functionality on its Cboe EDGX Options Exchange. And the company has all the rights to do it - the results speak for themselves... The expanded functionality went live on October…

December 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TFX Click 365 November volumes up 7% MoM

Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has also released its trading volumes report for the month of November 2017 with a positive total ADV for all TFX products. The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 89,908 ( - 15.0% MoM / - 60.0% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 4,495. 項目 November 2017…

December 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Morgan Stanley lifts interest in gaming and FX provider Playtech above 6%

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) announced that it has increased its stake in Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC) as of Monday. Having held a total of 5.35% in the gambling software development company beforehand - 5.01% through shares and 0.35% through financial instruments - Morgan Stanley now holds a total stake of 6.0003% - 5.44% in shares and 0.56% through…

December 01, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC bans Bell Potter Securities Ltd trader from providing financial services

ASIC announced that it has banned Mr Damien Rodr, of Sydney, from providing financial services under s920A of the Corporations Act following an ASIC investigation into trading in the shares of DirectMoney Ltd ('DirectMoney'; ASX code: DM1). Mr Rodr, a Designated Trading Representative (or 'DTR') for Bell Potter Securities Ltd ('Bell Potter'), has been banned…

December 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Euronext's FastMatch reports November institutional FX trading volumes down 1% to $17.8 billion ADV

Leading off our reports of FX trading volumes for November by leading Retail and Institutional eFX platforms, Forex ECN FastMatch data shows a 1% decline in activity from October, although still fairly strong overall in a historical context FX trading volumes at FastMatch averaged $17.8 billion daily in November, versus $18.0 billion ADV in October…

December 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Cboe (Hotspot) FX has best month in 2017 with November trading volumes at $33.9 billion ADV

Beginning our peek into November 2017 trading volumes at leading eFX trading platforms, data from institutional Forex ECN Cboe FX Markets – formerly known as Hotspot FX – indicates that November may turn out to be one of the best months of the year for FX trading. FX trading volumes at Cboe FX averaged $33.9…