HKEX to introduce Realtime DVP for Northbound Stock Connect Trading LeapRate

November 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

HKEX to introduce Realtime DVP for Northbound Stock Connect Trading

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) announced today that Realtime Delivery versus Payment, or Real-time DVP, money settlement in Renminbi, Hong Kong dollars and US dollars will be introduced for the Northbound related transactions of Stock Connect, its mutual market access programmes with the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges, on 20 November 2017. Realtime…

Monex teams up with Shizuoka Bank to launch financial instruments intermediary services

November 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Monex Group’s Global DARTs up 3% MoM in October

Monex Group, Inc. (TSE 8698, Oki Matsumoto, Representative Executive Officer and CEO) today reported the following monthly business metrics of its subsidiaries in October 2017. Global DARTs (DARTs stand for Daily Average Revenue Trades meaning the number of trades and transactions per day which generate revenue) were up 3.16% MoM. Number of total accounts has…

November 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Cboe reports October trading volume, CFE volume hits new annual high

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) has reported October monthly trading volume and average revenue per contract (RPC)/net revenue capture data. The data sheet “Cboe Global Markets Monthly Volume & RPC/Net Revenue Capture Report” contains an overview of October statistics. Data sheets are available on an as reported and combined basis for 2017 and 2016.…

November 06, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Combining the Best of Inbound and Outbound Marketing

The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. Which is better, outbound or inbound marketing? The fact is, there’s no use weighing in on the argument. Each has its pros and cons, and just like most of the popular digital marketing strategies today, a little bit of both is often better than…

November 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA publishes Future Approach to Consumers

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published its ‘FCA Mission – Our Future Approach to Consumers’. The complete text of the announcement can be seen below: When the FCA launched its Mission, it committed to publishing a series of documents that would explain its approach to regulation in more depth. The FCA’s Approach to…

November 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CoInvestor provides first digital access for advisers into LendInvest's Real Estate Opportunity Fund

CoInvestor, the alternative assets platform, informed that it has been chosen by LendInvest Capital as a preferred method for UK advisers to invest in its Luxembourg-domiciled Real Estate Opportunity Fund. The £130 million lending fund offers investors the opportunity to participate in a diverse pool of real estate-backed loans originated and underwritten by LendInvest’s experienced…

November 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

HKEX launches new market website

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has unveiled a new website for its Hong Kong markets today, introducing a fresh new look and enhanced functionality for website visitors. The new market website is completely rebuilt from the ground up with an entirely new back-end system and design that aligns with HKEX’s new corporate image…

November 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

NFEx Markets contracts with Scila for market surveillance

NFEx Markets Ltd, the new London-based market for base metals trading has signed a contract with Scila AB the Stockholm-based fintech company, to implement Scila Surveillance, a market surveillance solution designed to identify insider trading and market manipulation in real time, protecting end investors and strengthening confidence in the financial markets. Scila provides market surveillance…

November 06, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

China backed FX broker hires Ross Newell from AxiCorp to head new institutional business AETOS Direct

LeapRate has learned that Aetos Capital Group, a company controlled by Chinese online entrepreneur Yongqiang Lu, has launched a new institutional FX unit in its London-based FCA regulated arm Aetos Capital Group (UK) Limited, to be called AETOS Direct. To head up AETOS Direct, the company has hired Ross Newell (pictured above) from AxiCorp. Mr. Newell was one…

NEX Markets connects with Eurex to launch new clearing solution for BrokerTec Europe customers

November 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

NEX Optimisation provides central clearing connectivity for FX risk mitigation service

NEX Group PLC (LON:NXG)’s post trade division NEX Optimisation just announced that it has provided central clearing connectivity for its FX risk mitigation service in non-deliverable forwards. The clearing connectivity capability enables dealers to flag trades that are part of a risk mitigation cycle for automatic submission to a central counterparty clearing house (CCP). Clients…