The following article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. I started my career in advertising working for a large ad agency. Early on in my career, we were tasked with adapting the latest campaign from a large airline from English to Spanish. The campaign promoted the then launch of their new leather seats,…
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Six months after receiving approval from FINMA, the Swiss trade repository service provided by SIX Securities Services officially went live. The vast majority of the large financial counterparties in Switzerland (classified as FC+), starting their reporting obligations in the first phase today, decided in favor of the SIX Securities Services solution and are set up…
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Deutsche Börse announced that is offering the new market data feed CEF ultra+ Irish Stock Exchange Order by Order from October 2017. The high-performance data feed enables access to the entire visible Irish Stock Exchange order book and provides clients with comprehensive market data on all ISE-listed equity and ETF instruments traded. The launch extends…
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FCA regulated online broker ETX Capital today unveiled a new and improved version of its multi-asset class, proprietary web trading platform – TraderPro. Active clients have been given an exclusive first chance to try out the new platform. What’s new? According to ETX Capital: More intuitive - the new web trading platform has an enhanced…
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Japan Exchange Group has just released Trading Overview in September 2017 & First Half of Fiscal Year 2017 (April to September). Cash Equity Market In the first half of FY2017, the daily average trading value for the TSE 1st Section (domestic common stocks) was JPY 2.6589 trillion. In the ETF market, the daily average trading…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Logista Advisors LLC, a crude-oil-trading firm based in Houston, Texas. The Order finds that, from approximately September 2013 through October 2014, Logista failed to diligently supervise the handling by its employees and officers of commodity interest accounts and other…
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Saxo Bank has a new majority owner. The Copenhagen based multi asset online broker has announced that Finland's Sampo Oyj (HEL:SAMPO) is becoming a new shareholder in Saxo Bank, joining China's Geely Group which will now become Saxo Bank's largest (and controlling) shareholder. Geely and Sampo will jointly buy out the other two main outside shareholders…
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Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) just released its trading volumes report for the month of September 2017. Interest Rate Futures contracts The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 129,531 ( + 34.8% MoM / - 50.2% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 6,477. 項目 September 2017 Trading Volume Daily Average Change on…
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Bats, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CBOE) company announced that has welcomed a new PowerShares PureBeta fund to the Bats ETF Marketplace. The launch brings the total number of PowerShares funds listed on the Bats ETF Marketplace to 16. The PowerShares PureBeta US Aggregate Bond Portfolio fund (Bats: PBND) seeks to track the investment results of…
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The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX), the region’s largest and most diversified derivatives bourse, announced that has recorded its highest ever daily volume on September 27, trading 202,571 contracts with a notional value of USD 4 billion. Amidst spikes in market volatility following months of relative calm, monthly volumes also reached their highest ever…
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