April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Wall Street Horizon’s Enchilada available through Interactive Brokers’ TWS platform

Wall Street Horizon, the corporate events surveillance expert, just announced that its complete Enchilada corporate event dataset is now available through Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR)’ IB Trader Workstation (TWS) platform. With this collaboration, traders and investors can now access Enchilada’s comprehensive forward-looking and historical corporate event data for 5,000 North American companies. The platform…

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Eurex volumes
April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Eurex March report sees strong volumes with 11% rise YoY in contracts traded

Rate hike expectations support trading volumes With the release of March's turnover on Deutsche Börse’s cash markets also comes the first quarter report of derivatives exchange Eurex. With further US interest rate hikes on the horizon and a looming end to Quantitative Easing, demand for market instruments to hedge risk has been growing strongly in the first quarter. Hedging…

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April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CySEC withdraws license suspension of Dragon Options Ltd

Just one day after Cyprus financial regulator CySEC announced that it has withdrawn the CIF license suspensions of Leadtrade Ltd, and TTCM Traders Trust Capital Markets Ltd., same thing happened with Dragon Options Ltd. The brokerage group had its CIF license suspended by CySEC last week, with the regulator citing capital level concerns. CySEC had given…

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April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA warns against The Loan Expert clone firm

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has put out details of the cloned firm The Loan Expert / www.theloan.expert. 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…

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April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Bats launches new benchmark indices for ten European markets

Bats Europe, a CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) company, today announced the launch of new benchmark indices for ten additional European markets. Bats now offers real-time, high-quality and low-cost alternatives to those provided by the incumbent index providers across all major European markets. The new Bats Indices covering ten markets include: Bats Austria 20 Bats…

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April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

CFTC announces Andrew B. Busch as the Commission’s first Chief Market Intelligence Officer

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Acting Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo announced that Andrew B. Busch has been named the Commission’s first Chief Market Intelligence Officer. After spending 30 years in the financial services sector, Mr. Busch comes to the CFTC from the boutique economic research company he founded, Bering Productions Inc. (BPI), where he was…

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Deutsche Börse
April 04, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deutsche Börse Cash Market sees significant rise in March

Turnover on Deutsche Börse's cash markets totalled €135.7 billion in March, a significant increase on the €120.9 billion seen in the same month of 2016. This increase was largely driven by the daily auctions in Xetra trading, which are held at opening, midday and end of trading. Order book turnover in auctions provided 52% of…

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