An event was held at the Exhibition Hall of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) to celebrate the successful launch of Bond Connect, a mutual bond market access programme between Hong Kong SAR and Mainland China with Northbound trading link initially and Southbound trading link to be added later. Bond Connect has been welcomed…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that FCA regulated Retail Forex and CFDs broker GKFX has made another addition to its senior management group, hiring George Sassoon as Head of Sales UK. George Sassoon joins GKFX after serving for two as Director of Sales - Europe in the London office of Singapore based broker PhillipCapital, helping PhillipCapital launch…
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UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the firm Markets Capital Limited. Markets Capital Limited is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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Following the launch of futures and options on the popular MSCI EAFE index that represents the developed markets of Europe, Australasia and the Far East, derivatives exchange Eurex has become the only exchange that offers futures and options on all major MSCI indexes. And with the introduction of futures on the EURO STOXX 50 Corporate Bond Index,…
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Just one day after NEX Group PLC (LON:NXG) has announced that its NEX Optimisation unit has launched the FX industry’s first fully automated Settlement Netting Service, the company released its electronic markets volumes for the month of June 2017. US Treasury was $166.1 bln, 2% down MoM. US Repo was $226.5 bln, up 13% YoY…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm OneTrade. 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 to scam…
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The AMF announced that is publishing its report on the main risks to markets, savings, collective investments and financing of the economy. Released at the mid-point of the year, the mapping highlights the risks of a swift increase in interest rates, asset repricing and weakening of international coordination in financial market regulation. The AMF has…
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INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: INTL) announced the merger of its wholly owned subsidiary, Sterne, Agee & Leach, Inc. with and into its wholly owned subsidiary, INTL FCStone Financial Inc. (the Company). The merger further consolidates INTL FCStone's regulated entities, and is expected to result in operational efficiencies at INTL FCStone Financial Inc. and to enable…
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Order book turnover on Deutsche Börse cash markets totalled €127.4 billion in June (June 2016: €134.9 billion). Of the €127.4 billion, €116.9 billion were attributable to Xetra (June 2016: €123.9 billion). A turnover of €3.7 billion was attributable to Börse Frankfurt (June 2016: €4.2 billion). Order book turnover on Tradegate Exchange totalled approximately €6.9 billion…
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Spotware Systems just announced that they have added a new order type to their cTrader platform. This new order type is a Stop Limit Order, it has been added to desktop, web, iOS and Android versions of the platform, and it is available to all users of all brokers offering the platform. A Stop Limit…
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