Bats welcomes new issuer Franklin Templeton Investments to the Bats ETF Marketplace LeapRate

May 02, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bats welcomes new issuer Franklin Templeton Investments to the Bats ETF Marketplace

Bats, a CBOE Holdings Inc.(NASDAQ: CBOE) company, welcomed Franklin Templeton Investments as a new issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace with a suite of three U.S. equity focused funds. The funds include: The Franklin LibertyQ U.S. Equity ETF (Bats: FLQL), which seeks to provide investment results that closely correspond, before fees and expenses, to the…

May 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Hotspot FX April forex volumes down 7% MoM to $27.7 billion ADV

Institutional Forex ECN Hotspot FX has reported that April trading volumes decreased by 7% MoM from March, clocking in at $27.7 billion average daily volume for the month. Hotspot’s April figures begin a parade of what we believe will be weak volume reports in the FX sector, following what was a fairly strong March at many…

May 02, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

GTX sees forex trading volumes down 5% MoM in April

GTX, the institutional FX arm of retail forex broker Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP), has reported that April trading volumes in its system decreased slightly from March's record levels. GTX saw total trading volumes of $280.7 billion in April, or $14.0 billion ADV, versus a record $339.0 billion total and $14.7 billion ADV in March.

May 01, 2017 BY admin

Airwallex gets $13m in Series A from Tencent, Sequoia Capital China and Mastercard

Airwallex, an ASIC regulated international payments company has raised USD $13 million in a Series A funding round to fuel international expansion and enable more businesses to make faster, easier and cheaper payments worldwide. Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings, one of the earliest Chinese investment institutions Sequoia Capital China, and Mastercard all participated in the…

May 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXSpotStream forex volumes down 9% in April at $17.1 billion ADV

Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has reported that volumes on its system were down 9% MoM in April. Average daily volume at FXSpotStream came in at $17.1 billion in April – versus $18.8 billion in March, $18.7 billion in February and $18.9 billion in January - making April the slowest month to date in 2017 at…

May 01, 2017 BY admin

Click 365 Forex Trading Volume down 16.7% MoM for April

It was announced today from Tokyo Financial Exchange, that the total trading volume of its FX Daily Futures contracts (Click 365) was 2,247,872 (-16.7% MoM / -28.9% YoY) and its average daily trading volume was 112,394. The biggest downturn occurred in EUR/USD with the pair stuck in tight ranges in recent months. See the table…

May 01, 2017 BY admin

Recently listed Shanghai Gold futures boost precious metals trading in April on DGCX

The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX), the region’s largest and most diversified derivatives exchange, witnessed an eventful month of trading across its precious metals, base metals and currency segments in April. The recently listed DGCX Shanghai Gold Futures Contract (DSGC) has had a positive knock-on effect on the trading activity of the Exchange’s other…

May 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Critical elements of your brokerage’s mobile trading app

This article was written by Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate. With a relatively low adoption rate, compared to other industries, the jury is still out in relation to whether your brokerage does in fact need a mobile trading platform. The likelihood is that your traders are not going to choose your brokerage service because…

May 01, 2017 BY FxPro

Markets mixed following averted shutdown of US Congress

Global equities rose with U.S. futures, fixed income retreated and JPY weakened as a tentative deal by the U.S. Congress to avert a government shutdown overshadowed weaker economic data from China and the U.S. over the past few days. Per Republican and democratic aides, the U.S. House and Senate negotiators reached a tentative bipartisan agreement…

May 01, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Trump's first 100 days and the FX market

Multicurrency cash settlement system operator CLS has a unique overarching view of the Forex market, and has put out an interesting review of US President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office (a milestone which passed quietly this weekend) and the effect the new administration has had on the currency markets. The report covers the…