The Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) announced December and annual 2016 volume. Although the total trading volume results for the last month of 2016 were not so good, down 24.1% compared to November, the annual results seem to be quite alright with 25.3% YoY rise in trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures. Here are some of December's highlights:…
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This article is written by Usman Ahmed at Investoo Group, which provides expert products for the financial trading industry. Binary options trading is becoming increasingly famous worldwide after the advent of binary options exchanges such as Nadex and Daweda Exchange. In binary trading you can bet on financial assets and make some quick profits. The…
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The Cypress Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has announced that AirFinance Ltd, a company under CySEC supervision that provides investment services through the websites www.ytftradeltd.com, www.investing-area.com, www.buzztrade.com, www.binaryroyal.com and www.cfdroyal.com has decided to renounce its authorisation. The authorization of AirFinance Pro Ltd was suspended on 17 June 2016, and the company has informed on 9…
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Wedbush Securities today announced the appointment of Arthur Bass as Managing Director, Fixed Income Financing, Futures, and Rates. In this role Arthur will focus on the further development of the Futures and Options, and fixed income businesses. Arthur is based in New York, NY and reports to Managing Director, Fixed Income Financing, Futures, and Rates,…
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The latest CFTC data from US retail forex brokers is out for November from reports filed by December 26th. The data is showing a slight rise in assets held by US retail forex traders back to $523 million, a 0.65% rise from October's $520 million (see chart above). Continuing to lead the way was FXCM…
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The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced it is permanently prohibiting Jason Katz, a former foreign exchange (FX) trader at Barclays PLC and later at BNP Paribas SA, from participating in the banking industry, because of his actions to manipulate FX prices. Through the use of electronic chat rooms, Katz coordinated his trading with competitors,…
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Less than two days after crossing the $1,000 barrier, Bitcoin prices continued their march upwards and quickly crossed the $1,100 level on Wednesday. As of the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading at $1,122, up more than 8% on the day. As recently as December 20, Bitcoin was trading at under $800. Bitcoin one-month price…
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Dash total market cap soared from $82 million to more than $117 million this morning.
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In 2016, Eurex, Europe’s largest derivatives exchange, saw increasing demand for its highly liquid benchmark product range as well as strong growth in a number of new product segments. Exchange Traded Derivatives (ETD) are efficient hedging instruments, sharing the same benefits as OTC contracts and also the the advantages of deep liquidity and transparent trading…
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Retail forex broker Exness saw December volumes down seasonally 5% MoM from November, but at $201.2 billion Exness volumes stayed above the $200B line for the fourth consecutive month. For the year 2016, Exness reported record volumes of $2.41 trillion, making Exness one of the 10 largest retail forex brokers worldwide. During 2016 Exness honored…
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