Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) just released its trading volumes report for the month of August 2017. Interest Rate Futures contracts The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 96,098 (-35.5% MoM / -53.0% YoY) and its average daily volume was 4,368. 項目 August 2017 Trading Volume Daily Average Change On Previous Month Year On…
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The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has today issued an Investor Alert warning investors about the potential risks of participating in initial coin offerings, commonly referred to as ICOs. An ICO involves the creation and distribution of virtual coins or tokens by a company to raise capital. ICOs differ from initial public offerings (IPOs) of…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated Retail FX and CFDs broker Destek Markets has made some additions to its senior management team, ahead of a big planned launch of operations later this year. Destek has hired Rowena Harris-Doughty (pictured above) as its new Marketing Director. Ms. Harris-Doughty joins Destek from London Capital Group Holdings plc (LON:LCG),…
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Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ:FISV), a global provider of financial services technology solutions, today announced the completion of its acquisition of Monitise plc (LON:MONI), further expanding its digital technology suite to enable financial institutions worldwide to meet customer expectations for innovative digital banking experiences. Two months ago Fiserv shared it has reached agreement on the terms of…
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ASIC announced that has just published its seventh report on the regulation of corporate finance issues in Australia. The report, which covers the period January to June 2017, provides companies and their advisers with insights into ASIC’s regulatory approach in the corporate finance sector to assist them in carrying out their associated legal and compliance…
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Since 5th January 2010, the European Energy Exchange (EEX) has auctioned more than 900 million emission allowances on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany. Including today’s 500th auction, revenue of in total approximately EUR 6 billion has been generated. These funds have been used almost completely for financing national and international climate protection measures.…
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that John Cook, Jeffrey Dinwoodie, Raquel Fox, Kristina Littman, Alan Cohen, Christopher Carofine, and Shelby Begany Telle have been named to the executive staff of Chairman Jay Clayton. These executive staff members will advise Chairman Clayton alongside Chief of Staff Lucas Moskowitz, Deputy Chief of Staff Sean Memon,…
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Payments services company Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS) announced that has furthered its partnership with DraftKings, a global daily fantasy sports (DFS) platform, by providing them the ability to expand their payment methods in Europe through Skrill Quick Checkout. Paysafe’s Skrill Quick Checkout platform provides customers with access to a range of payment methods in a…
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Binary options platform and brokerage group TechFinancials Inc (LON:TECH) has announced its unaudited interim results for the six month period ended 30 June 2017 (H1 2017). Financial Overview: Group Revenues of US$ 6.97m (H1 2016: US$ 9.86m) Core software licencing revenues on standalone basis totalled US$ 3.58m (H1 2016: US$5.82m) The trading platform revenues totalled…
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Beginning our peek into August 2017 trading volumes at leading eFX trading platforms, data from institutional Forex ECN Hotspot FX indicates that August trading volumes were equal to those of July clocking in at $27.1 billion average daily volume for the month. Similar in pattern to June and July, activity did seem to be stronger in…
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