GMO Click Holdings, Inc. (TYO:7177), the parent of Japanese online trading giant GMO Click Securities, has released its monthly preliminary report of its subsidiaries for January 2017. Equity Trading Value was ¥1,674,281 in January 2017, made a slight decrease of 13.2% MoM. The number of Executed Equity Trades was also lower than December 2016 -…
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Markets have priced in Article 50.
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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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The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), just announced that with effect from 10 February 2017 (Friday), 58 additional securities will be eligible for short selling and 12 existing designated securities will be removed from the list. The total number of designated securities for…
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EBS BrokerTec, a unit of NEX Group PLC (LON:NXG) (formerly known as ICAP plc), just shared its Electronic Market Volumes for the month of January 2017. EBS Volumes were up 12.6% MoM to $93.2 billion ADV. US Treasury was also up 17% MoM, though it dropped a bit compared to the same period last year…
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Swissquote Bank is launching a new virtual reality trading application, especially designed for use with virtual helmets. The new app will enable the user to access the financial information that matters most to them in real time, through the medium of VR. Once the trader enters the virtual trading platform, they are surrounded by a…
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Shares of leading publicly traded US online retail brokers traded down between 2-10% yesterday, including those of Charles Schwab Corp (NYSE:SCHW), E*TRADE Financial Corp (NASDAQ:ETFC), Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR, )and TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. (NYSE: AMTD). Thursday's trading results included: Schwab: -5.3% E*Trade: -8.9% TD Ameritrade: -9.5% Interactive Brokers: -1.9% The cause? Well it looks…
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The Court of First Instance has granted an interim order against Ms Yik Fong Fong in legal proceedings commenced by the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), prohibiting her from removing assets up to the value of $25,899,750 from Hong Kong in relation to an ongoing investigation into suspected insider dealing in the shares of TeleEye…
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The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) just launched InvestmentReporting.ca, a new website that helps investors navigate new annual reports introduced as part of the Canadian Securities Administrators’ Client Relationship Model – Phase 2 (CRM2) initiative. The reports provide greater transparency about the performance of an investor’s account over specific periods of time and the fees paid…
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Monex Group Inc. (TYO:8698) today reported the following monthly business metrics of its subsidiaries in January 2017. The number of total accounts was slightly up with not more than 1% MoM to 1,684,158. The number of Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs - the number of trades and transactions per day which generate revenue) was 273,641…
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