Payments services and technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) has announced that it recently completed a £4.05 million (USD $5.2 million) share buyback. On July 10, it purchased for treasury 1,500,000 ordinary shares at a price of 270 pence per share. SafeCharge has not announced a formal share buyback program, so it remains to…
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Duco, the global provider of self-service data normalization and reconciliation services, today announced the official launch of Duco Cube Insight, a real-time analysis module for reconciliations that enables firms to cut down root cause investigation time around operational issues. The module was made available to Duco clients in the first quarter of 2017. Since then…
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Deutsche Börse Group announced that has entered into a strategic cooperation with Trumid, a financial technology company that provides an electronic trading network for corporate bonds. The Group will invest US$10 million for a minority stake as an add-on to Trumid’s previously disclosed US$28 million financing from earlier this year. Trumid will use the new…
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Australia financial regulator ASIC has issued a consultation paper, asking for feedback on new proposed rules requiring brokers to reconcile and report all retail client money held on a daily, monthly, and yearly basis. Some background... As we reported back in March, Australia’s parliament recently passed the Treasury Laws Amendment (Measures No 1) Bill 2016, known more…
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Continuing what has been a fairly strong June in the Retail FX space, forex broker FXCM Group LLC has announced that its trading volumes rose by 5% during June, to $223 billion. On a daily average basis, volumes were up 9% in June. The rise in volumes at FXCM, and its continued membership in the…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has launched True Fraud Stories, a video series about how cunning fraudsters have lured smart investors into fraudulent investment schemes that resulted in the loss of thousands of dollars of their savings. These real-life victims tell their stories hoping others will become educated about financial fraud and avoid…
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The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) announced that has added 2 new Q&A to its Questions and Answers (Q&A) document on the implementation of investor protection topics under the Market in Financial Instruments Directive and Regulation (MiFID II/ MiFIR). The new Q&A cover the topics of recording of telephone conversations and electronic communications, and…
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Euronext announced the closing of the acquisition of a 60% stake in iBabs, a Dutch provider of dematerialised board portal solutions for corporates and public organisations, for a consideration of €30.1 million. iBabs, based in the Netherlands, provides an efficient and secured board portal solution to close to 1,000 companies and public organisations with more…
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GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP) today reported certain operating metrics for the month of June 2017. OTC Trading Volume at GAIN's Forex.com Retail Segment was $241.8 billion - up 10.2% from May's $219.5 billion. This marks the second consecutive month of healthy, double digit percent volume increases at Forex.com, at a time when many…
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The Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), a leading securities exchange in the region, announced that has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX), the region’s largest and most diversified derivatives bourse, and its parent company, DMCC (Dubai Multi Commodities Centre) to create the basis for collaboration on a unified…
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