Beginning our peek into May 2017 trading volumes at leading eFX trading platforms, data from institutional Forex ECN Hotspot FX indicates that May trading volumes increased slightly by just over 1% MoM from April, clocking in at $28.1 billion average daily volume for the month. Hotspot's figures would have been even higher - $29.9 billion,…
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Continuing its string of warnings against unregulated brokers and other scams targeting retail traders in Canada, Canadian securities regulator the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has added to its Investment Caution List unregulated binary options broker Boss Capital, owned by Melnic Group Ltd., operated from website bosscapital.com. According to the BCSC, Boss Capital claims to be…
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GTX, the institutional FX arm of retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), has reported that May trading volumes in its system increased slightly from April, although they didn't quite reach the record volumes GTX reported in March. GTX saw total trading volumes of $306.5 billion in May, or $13.3 billion ADV, versus $280.7…
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SIX Swiss Exchange Survey Regulation is overwhelmingly the biggest hurdle traders face, according to a major survey of equity, bond and other product traders in the UK and Europe conducted by SIX Swiss Exchange. An overwhelming 65% of respondents believed increasing regulation, such as MiFID II and FinfraG, would have the biggest impact on their…
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NZD/USD has seen a noticeable 2.4% gain since May 22nd helped by outperforming New Zealand economic data. On the daily chart Kiwi bulls have successfully breached the major downtrend line resistance on May 22. Since then Kiwi has been trading above the downside 10 SMA support. The bulls further broke the next significant psychological resistance…
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Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) keeps updating its Warning List, with the latest addition being City Bank. The company claims to have an address in Switzerland: Square de l'académie, 1205 Genf and is operating at www.citybank-us.com. The inclusion of City Bank in FINMA’s Warning List means that it might be operating without a licence although…
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Axioma, a provider of enterprise market risk and portfolio management solutions, and FactSet, a global provider of integrated financial information, analytical applications, have entered into an agreement with Mirova, the second-largest European manager of open-ended SRI funds and Natixis Asset Management, Europe-based asset manager. These two asset managers are Natixis Global Asset Management affiliates, itself…
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ETF provides access to commodity basket comprising energy and industrial and precious metals A new exchange traded fund (ETF) issued by Source has been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Tuesday, Deutsche Börse announced. The Source Bloomberg Commodity ex-Agriculture UCITS ETF enables investors to participate in the performance of a commodity basket comprising eleven…
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London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has reached an agreement with Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) to acquire The Yield Book and Citi Fixed Income Indices, a fixed income analytics platform and index business comprising a family of fixed income indices (including the WGBI) (together the “Business”) for a total cash consideration of $685 million (£535 million),…
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Michael Grecoff, Head of Americas and International Sales at Cinnober Financial Technology has left Cinnober to fully focus as co-founder and CEO of DAHU Technologies. Grecoff joined Cinnober in 2012 after being Head of Sales, Client Services in the Asia Pacific area for SMARTS. Prior to joining SMARTS, Michael was Manager Surveillance at the Canadian…
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