Ether Tracker One and Ether Tracker Euro just crossed $10MM in assets under management (AUM) a week after beginning trading on Nasdaq Stockholm. “When the group’s bitcoin ETNs – which are now at $330MM in AUM - launched in 2015, it took one year to attract the initial $10MM in AUM. The Ether Trackers achieved…
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Multi asset global clearing house LCH has announced that Daniel Maguire (pictured above) has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of LCH Group, with immediate effect. The appointment follows Suneel Bakhshi’s decision, earlier this summer, to step down from his role as Chief Executive Officer of LCH Group after four years in the role. The…
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Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (BZX: CBOE | NASDAQ: CBOE) announced that it has today welcomed another fund to its Cboe ETF Marketplace - Global X fund. The Global X Iconic U.S. Brands ETF (Bats: LOGO) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance, before fees and expenses, of the Accuvest…
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BNP PARIBAS ALM Treasury and EY today announced they successfully completed a pilot demonstrating the feasibility of using blockchain to optimize the global internal treasury operations of the bank. The ALM Treasury department, which manages the bank’s internal treasury, at the service of all three operating divisions of the Group, carried out a blockchain pilot,…
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Deutsche Börse drew a positive interim balance of the Scale SME segment launched on 1 March 2017. The trading volume of the companies that moved to Scale have more than doubled year-on-year in the first seven months since the segment’s launch, from €827 million to around €1.84 billion. The Scale All Share Index, which tracks…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm My Finance. 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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Dow Jones has announced a new partnership with Curation Corporation, a risk monitoring and content specialist, offering curated news briefings that provide customers with timely insights on peripheral risks, emerging disruptive trends and new business opportunities. Peripheral risks are typically found outside the parameters of traditional risk monitoring, but may have a dramatic and substantial…
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Spotware Systems, the developer of the popular cTrader trading platform has announced a new integration with leading FCA regulated institutional multi asset liquidity provider TradeTech Alpha. TradeTech Alpha was created by the $150 million acquisition of FX and CFD market maker and B2B liquidity provider Alpha Capital Markets by Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC), which closed earlier this…
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Options, the provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has announced the appointment of Jay Miller to its executive team. Miller joins the New York team as VP, Sales where he will be responsible for driving new business growth and supporting the firm’s client engagement model in the US. Miller joins Options…
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Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) announced that it has launched Elektron Direct Feed (EDF) for the Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA), reducing client costs by providing seamless access to the largest securities information services provider without the need for additional server capacity. EDF replaces our current direct feed offering, TRDFD. Feeds from OPRA can be particularly burdensome…
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