SIX Swiss Exchange has just published its trading volumes report for the month of July 2017. The highlights are: Trading turnover of CHF 824.7 billion (+5.9% year-on-year) since the start of the year Number of trades 30,109,594 (+4.2% year-on-year) Average daily trading turnover of CHF 5.7 billion in the year to date Two IPOs in…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm Tilney Fund Managers. 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…
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Trading platform Tradeweb announced that will expand its European operations in Amsterdam to ensure it can service European Union clients after Britain leaves the bloc, Reuters reported earlier today. At this moment the company has a European operation only in London, which will remain after Brexit even as the Amsterdam office becomes the electronic trading…
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NEX Group plc (LON: NXG), formerly known as ICAP plc has published their average daily volume data for July 2017. The volume figures cover electronically traded products - spot foreign exchange, US Treasury products, European and US repo products. NEX Electronic Markets Volumes – July 2017 Average daily volume (in USD billions, single count) July YoY%…
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Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes just announced that the new version of MetaTrader 5 for Android provides the possibility to easily create preliminary brokerage accounts. How does it work? When opening a new account: select "Open a real account" from the menu find your broker in the list of servers specify your personal details and…
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After approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), BOX Options Exchange LLC (BOX) is ready to start a new open-outcry options trading floor in Chicago. This is a welcome development for many veterans and new traders alike. Old-style trading floors where humans meet to negotiate prices of options are contrary to current trends, which have…
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Monex Group, Inc. (TSE 8698, Oki Matsumoto, Representative Executive Officer and CEO) today reported the following monthly business metrics of its subsidiaries in July 2017. Global DARTs (DARTs stand for Daily Average Revenue Trades meaning the number of trades and transactions per day which generate revenue) were down 3% from the previous month to 263,329.…
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Global forex broker Admiral Markets is announcing the addition of a new instrument, the Polish Index Futures CFD – WIG20 (WSE:WIG20)– effective from now onwards. This new CFD is based on the capitalization-weighted market index of the 20 largest companies traded on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. As with trading on any index with Admiral Markets,…
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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has publicly censured China Life Insurance (Overseas) Company Limited as a result of its failure to disclose its dealings in the shares of Glorious Property Holdings Limited in contravention of the Code on Takeovers and Mergers. Between 9 May and 5 August 2016, China Life executed 2,139…
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The London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) just released their interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2017. Strong financial performance with income growth across all business areas and 23% AEPS growth Successful strategy based on customer partnership, innovation and an Open Access model strongly positions the Group to make further progress as a…
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