Continuing the string of flat to slightly-down FX trading volumes at leading eFX platforms we’ve seen for the month of July, multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has reported that volumes on its system were down 14% MoM, coming in at $17.6 billion ADV. We'd note that June was a near-record month at FXSpotStream, with ADV…
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The Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) have announced a services agreement designed to ease reporting burdens and compliance costs for member firms. The new, simplified filing process will also reduce inconsistent or incomplete filing of annual audited financial statements and supplementary reports. Effective September 1, firms that currently…
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Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global provider of financial services technology solutions, announced today that it has acquired the assets of PCLender, LLC, a next generation enterprise internet-based mortgage software and mortgage lending technology solutions company. This acquisition will enhance the Fiserv suite of mortgage origination services, which enable Fiserv clients to deliver the experience…
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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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