After being the first Chinese bank to stream spot CNH price during Asian time zone, ICBC (Asia) is now the first Chinese bank to initiate a 24 hour price streaming on information giant Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) platform FXall via Electronic Trading (ET). The move supports increasing demand from clients of ICBC (Asia) to price…
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Deutsche Boerse's CEO Carsten Kengeter shared that insider trading allegations against him would prove unfounded, pointing out that he did not determine the timing of his share purchases ahead of the announcement of merger plans with the London Stock Exchange (LSE), Reuters reported earlier today. Deutsche Boerse's supervisory board created a unique share purchase plan for…
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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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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that CySEC regulated institutional FX firm PositivaFX (CY) Ltd is making preparations to launch a separate Retail Forex brokerage operation. PositivaFX, based in Limassol, Cyprus and founded in 2014 by CEO George Stylianou (pictured at right) and COO Kaiming Liu, has grown into a fairly successful institutional FX shop, serving mainly small to…
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TriOptima, a NEX Group (LON:NXG) business which lowers costs and mitigates risk in OTC derivatives markets, just announced that over 60 clients have adopted its triResolve Margin service in anticipation of the new variation margin regulations effective 1 March 2017. These institutions include dealers, buy-side and corporate clients such as Mizuho Bank, Ltd., Sampo plc,…
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Singapore Exchange (SGX) today welcomed Pacific Star Development Limited to Catalist under the stock code 1C5. Pacific Star Development Limited is a Singapore-based premier property developer of award-winning mixed-used projects and prime residential developments in key gateway cities across ASEAN countries. Its projects on hand include Puteri Cove Residences and Quayside in Iskandar Malaysia, and…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) just announced that will introduce its planned Renminbi (RMB) Currency Options on Monday, 20 March 2017. The US dollar-Offshore RMB (USD/CNH) Options will be the first currency options traded at HKEX. The eight contract months on the launch day will comprise April, May, June, July, September and December…
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This week Bats Global Markets, Inc.(Bats: BATS) makes another entry to its Bats ETF Marketplace with Global X as a new issuer. The Global X Founder-Run Companies ETF (Bats: BOSS) seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the Solactive U.S. Founder-Run Companies Index. Laura Morrison, Senior Vice President, Global…
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On Wednesday, Deutsche Börse announced an unscheduled change to the SDAX Index. Due to the acquisition of GfK SE by Acceleratio Capital N.V., the free float of GfK SE changed by more than 10 percentage points. According to the Guide to the Equity Indices of Deutsche Börse AG, the company’s free float will be adjusted…
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Liquidity in the UK corporate bond market has declined recently but still seems relatively healthy, according to analysis by Felix Suntheim from our Chief Economist’s Department and Matthew Allan from the Financial Conduct Authority's Markets Policy Department. New data suggests there has been a decline in liquidity in the UK’s corporate bond market over the…
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