January 30, 2017 BY admin

Lightspeed expands to institutional trading market with new prime brokerage division

Lightspeed Institutional, a division of Lightspeed Trading LLC, is broadening its offering to institutional traders by launching a new prime brokerage division. As part of this launch, Lightspeed has added senior staff to help meet the unique needs of its small to mid-size hedge fund clients. Lightspeed Trading has specialized in serving the active trading community…

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January 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Axioma launches Python API and web services for its portfolio optimizer

Axioma, a provider of investment risk and portfolio management solutions, has launched the Axioma Portfolio Optimizer Python API (application program interface). The API, built on Axioma’s new Optimization Web Services, enables users to leverage the features of Axioma’s best-in-class Portfolio Optimizer using Python. Python is fast becoming the language of choice for quants who use…

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January 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

TSX launches seven new QuantShares ETFs powered by AGF

Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) today welcomed AGF Investments Inc. (AGF), one of Canada's premier independent investment management firms, to open trading this morning to mark the launch of seven new QuantShares ETFs powered by AGFiQ Asset Management (AGFiQ), AGF's quantitative investing and ETF solutions platform. We are honoured that AGF, a Canadian investment industry leader,…

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January 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Nasdaq Corporate Solutions to provide enhanced features for investor relations websites

Nasdaq Corporate Solutions just announced its partnership with Euroland IR to offer investor relations (IR) professionals worldwide with enhanced features for their IR websites. The partnership was formalized in December 2016 and brings comprehensive stock quotes, interactive charting and other IR website modules to thousands of Nasdaq Corporate Solutions clients across EMEA, Asia and the…

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January 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

SpotOption partners with Tools For Brokers for MT4 plug-in

SpotOption just announced the successful launching of their MT4 plug-in, which was made possible through the partnership with Forex technology provider, Tools For Brokers (T4B). The MT4 plug-in (compliant with regulation), allows forex operators who provide traders with the MT4 platform to automatically offer binary options directly on their MT4 platform, with no additional steps,…

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January 30, 2017 BY LeapRate Staff

4 top tips to writing ebooks that convert

With the tool of bonuses now taken away from Retail Forex brokers, educational materials are that much more important in helping convert clients. What kind of ebooks convert? Adinah Brown, content manager at Leverate, explains. Given the fact that bonuses have been banned by regulators and spreads are becoming tighter and tighter, thus preventing brokers from…

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fma warns against unregulated company
January 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Italy regulator CONSOB warns against new brokers

Italy’s financial markets regulator National Commission for Companies and the Stock Exchange (CONSOB) has issued a public warning against new forex brokers. CONSOB reported that: the companies Dc Digital Processing 2 Ltd and Green Galaxy International SA, operating through the website www.optionbit-it.com, are not authorised to provide investment services and business in Italy in any…

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January 30, 2017 BY Valentina Kirilova

Tokyo Stock Exchange selects Juniper Networks for extensive trading platform upgrade

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), an automated, scalable and secure networks company, just announced that Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc. (TSE) has chosen the Juniper Networks MX480 3D Universal Edge Router for an extensive upgrade of 'arrownet v2', the network platform responsible for its proprietary trading system 'arrowhead'. As technology evolves alongside rapidly changing customer needs, TSE…

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