March 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hanweck announces addition of Nasdaq’s Jean-Jacques Louis to Board of Directors

Hanweck, a provider of real-time risk analytics on global derivatives markets, just announced that Jean-Jacques Louis, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Nasdaq, has joined its Board of Directors. At Nasdaq, Mr. Louis is responsible for the strategic and financial analyses and execution of all corporate and business unit investments. Nasdaq is a strategic…

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ESMA Chairman targets asset managers for adequacy of liquidity concerns
March 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Alpha and Gold-i partner to offer MT4 / MT5 multi asset bridge and liquidity

Trading solutions and liquidity provider Alpha Capital Markets, and MetaTrader technology solutions firm Gold-i, have announced a joint effort to provide Alpha's liquidity solutions to MT4 and MT5 brokers, using Gold-i's bridge gateway. Gold-i launched its MT5 gateway last November. We understand that Alpha and Gold-i are currently finalizing implementation on their first joint client.…

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FXCM FX trading volumes
March 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM (non-US) volumes drop 21% in February to $201 billion

Retail Forex broker FXCM has announced its volume results for February, the last month for which FXCM had both US and non-US volumes to report. FXCM sold its US client base to rival Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) and its Forex.com retail FX unit at the end of February, after the company and CEO Drew Niv…

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sfc warning
March 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Hong Kong SFC adds Kanagawa Associates to its alert list

Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…

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March 15, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

HKEX advances the preparatory work for Bond Connect

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) welcomed the announcement by Li Keqiang, the Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, yesterday about setting up bond market links between Hong Kong and Mainland China. HKEX believes that Bond Connect represents a major breakthrough in the development of the Mainland capital markets…

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March 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Westpac and ANZ cited for FX inadequacies including confidential order leaks

Australia financial regulator ASIC has today accepted enforceable undertakings from Westpac Banking Corporation (WBC:ASX) and Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ASX:ANZ) in relation to the banks' wholesale foreign exchange (FX) businesses. As a result of ASIC’s investigation, ASIC is concerned that between January 2008 and June 2013 both banks failed to ensure that their…

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SFC fines
March 15, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

Credit Suisse fined $170,000 in Australia for order filtering issues

Australia financial regulator ASIC has announced that Credit Suisse Equities (Australia) Limited, an Australian unit of global banking firm Credit Suisse Group AG (ADR) (NYSE:CS) has paid a penalty of AUD $170,000 to comply with an infringement notice from ASIC's Markets Disciplinary Panel (MDP). The MDP had reasonable grounds to believe that Credit Suisse had contravened…

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cssf warning
March 14, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Luxembourg regulator CSSF warns against Campbell & Browne Associates

The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) warns the public of the activities of an entity named Campbell & Browne Associates. Campbell & Browne Associates operates at website https://campbellbrowneassociates.com/ and claims to be established at 26, boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg. The CSSF informs the public that the entity named Campbell & Browne Associates is…

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