SIX Swiss Exchange announced today approval of the London Stock Exchange’s TRADEcho service as a Trade Data Monitor (TDM) for the SIX Swiss Exchange. This agreement enables foreign participants (Remote Members) of the SIX Swiss Exchange to meet their reporting obligations for trades in Swiss securities admitted for trading on a Swiss regulated market via the…
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TMX Group Limited (TSX:X) today announced February 2017 trading statistics for its marketplaces – Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TSX Alpha Exchange (Alpha), Montréal Exchange (MX) and NGX. MX achieved a new open interest record for Options on Three-Month Canadian Bankers' Acceptance Futures (OBX) of 315,410 contracts on February 17, 2017. To see the…
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A report published today by the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has found no substantial evidence showing that liquidity in the secondary corporate bond markets between 2004 and 2015 has deteriorated markedly from historic norms for non-crisis periods. The report, titled Examination of Liquidity of the Secondary Corporate Bond Markets, presents…
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Beeks Financial Cloud, a global leader in financial cloud infrastructure for the trading industry, has today announced its newest Beeks Marketplace product offering, “China Liquidity Select." The turnkey package, is priced at £1,500 GBP per month, and is aimed primarily at brokerage partners and liquidity providers looking to serve traders in mainland China. It also ensures…
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UK financial regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued its latest warning against an unregulated financial services provider targeting UK consumers. The FCA’s latest warning is against the firm Loan and Go. Loan and Go is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that popular Forex and Binary Options affiliate programs operator RushBucks is cutting its ties with the sector. At various times, RushBucks has run affiliate programs for a number of (mainly Binary Options) brokers including TradeRush, Redwood Options, Boss Capital, as well as 10Trade.com, a CySEC licensed Binary Options broker via parent company Holiway Investments…
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The clearing house LCH just announced that Neil Walker is standing down as a non-executive director of LCH’s SA and Group boards, effective immediately. Neil Walker will focus on executive commitments elsewhere. He has been a non-executive director for LCH since 2012 and has served as a member of LCH’s risk committees. Lex Hoogduin, Group Chairman,…
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The following article was written by Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets. Yesterday, I got an email from one of my old contacts thanking me for persuading him not to go into the retail FX brokerage business last year. The email was sent from the corporate domain of his new business venture,…
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STOXX Ltd., the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business, and a global provider of innovative and tradable index concepts, today introduced the STOXX Climate Impact and STOXX Climate Awareness Indices. This next generation of low carbon indices incorporates the CDP climate change scoring methodology which evaluates companies based on their progress in the transition…
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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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