September 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deutsche Börse and Illuminate Financial invest in RegTek.Solutions

Investment comes as market participants prepare to comply with a raft of new post-trade reporting rules in Europe, North America and APAC Deutsche Börse and Illuminate Financial Management LLP have co-led in a US$5 million Series A funding round in RegTek.Solutions Inc., a multi-jurisdiction regulatory reporting solutions provider. Based in New York, RegTek.Solutions was launched…

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September 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

ADS Securities expands UK retail presence, adds Spread Betting to its OREX trading platform

ADS Securities London has today announced a major upgrade to its proprietary OREX trading platform. The new version, OREX SB, includes spread-betting functionality for UK clients across both desktop and mobile apps, along with a number of significant enhancements and upgrades. Additional features include a new design, quick trade functionality, and further performance improvements resulting…

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September 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Plato Partnership and Imperial College Business School to establish the European Market Structure research network

Plato Partnership Limited, a not-for-profit company bringing creative solutions and efficiencies to today’s equity marketplace, has today announced its intention to enter into an agreement with Imperial College Business School to establish and lead a European Market Structure research network. Led by Dr Andrei Kirilenko, Director of the Centre for Global Finance and Technology at…

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September 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Monex Group’s Global DARTs down 2% in August

Monex Group, Inc. (TSE 8698, Oki Matsumoto, Representative Executive Officer and CEO) today reported the following monthly business metrics of its subsidiaries in August 2017. Global DARTs (DARTs stand for Daily Average Revenue Trades meaning the number of trades and transactions per day which generate revenue) were down 2% MoM to 257,715. Number of total…

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DFSA
September 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CFTC fines W Resources LLC $150,000 for registration violations

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that today entered an Order requiring Dallas, Texas-based W Resources, LLC (W Resources) to pay a $150,000 civil monetary penalty for acting as a Commodity Pool Operator (CPO) without registering with the CFTC and to cease and desist from further violating the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), as…

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clone firm FCA warning
September 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against Instant Pound clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Instant Pound. 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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Deutsche Börse
September 06, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

METRO AG and Grand City Properties S.A. to be included in MDAX

Deutsche Börse reviews index composition/ Changes to be effective as of 18 September 2017 On Tuesday, Deutsche Börse announced changes to its selection indices, which will become effective on 18 September 2017. The shares of METRO AG and Grand City Properties S.A. will be included in the MDAX index, which tracks the 50 largest and…

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Moscow Exchange MOEX
September 05, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Moscow Exchange launches FX Ruble fixing instruments

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has announced that from September 4 it is offering instruments to trade at the MOEX FX USD/RUB and EUR/RUB fixing prices with clearing and settlement via its clearinghouse, NCC Clearing Bank. Russian banks including subsidiaries of large global financial groups posted total turnover of USD 6 million on the first day of…

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