Staff at the Bank of England will today (Tuesday 1 August) start a three day strike at the bank. Members of the UK’s largest union, Unite, are holding a demonstration outside the bank’s London office at 8.15 am today to mark the start of a historic strike over pay. The Labour shadow chancellor of the…
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Order book turnover on Deutsche Börse cash markets totalled €118.9 billion in July (July 2016: €100.8 billion). Deutsche Börse AG has also published its results for the second quarter of 2017 last Wednesday. Of the €118.9 billion, €109.1 billion were attributable to Xetra (July 2016: €91.8 billion) and €3.5 billion to Börse Frankfurt (July 2016: €3.4…
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Bolsa de Madrid (BME) has just announced its monthly volumes report. The highlights include: Trading volume in the first seven months of the year amounted to €417.1 billion The number of trades in July was 4.8 million, up 9% from last year's figure Trading in Financial Derivatives in July rose by 20% from the same…
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The month of July proved to be an eventful one for DGCX, the largest and the most diversified derivatives bourse in the region, as it inked pacts for greater collaboration with two leading Abu Dhabi based entities – the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) and Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM). The Exchange’s recent regulatory recognition…
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Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) has published their Forex volume metrics for June 2017, with spot FX volumes rising to $93 billion, up 9.4% MoM from May’s $85 billion. This was the platform's best performing month since March for spot volumes (see chart above) when the US dollar lost a bit of steam due to a Dovish Fed and…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Miton Asset Management, trading as Miton Commodities. 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…
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Klarna Bank AB just announced the release of its new free of charge peer-to-peer (P2P) payment service ‘Wavy’, which enables people to send and request money in a secure, fast and easy way. Wavy enables consumers across 31 European markets to smoothly transfer money (Euros) and split bills amongst friends, colleagues and family members. Consumers…
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Japan Exchange Group just released its trading overview in July 2017. Cash Equity Market In July 2017, the daily average trading value for the TSE 1st Section (domestic common stocks) was JPY 2.5582 trillion. In the ETF market, monthly trading value was JPY 2.3482 trillion. Derivatives Market In July 2017, total derivatives trading volume was…
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Neptune, the Fixed Income network for real-time “axe” indications, just announced the addition of Rabobank (Rabo) and TD Securities “TD” to its network and board. Rabo and TD become the 23rd and 24th participating banks on the network. The Neptune network provides a venue for investors to consume the highest quality bond axes/inventory data from…
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The Tokyo Financial Exchange just released its volumes report for the month of July 2017. The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 149,021 ( + 4.2% MoM / - 11.2% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 7,451. The total trading volume of FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) was 2,307,283 ( -…
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