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 Stockfield Associates Group. Stockfield Associates Group is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in the UK and is also carrying on regulated…
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Regulated binary options and CFDs broker Opteck has announced the launch of a new mobile trading platform, as the company continues to invest heavily in new technology as it expands to acquire new global markets and increase its client base in existing markets. Designed for all major smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, the new…
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Retail Forex broker FxPro has abandoned plans for a London stock market flotation as a result of the UK regulator's plan to crackdown on the growing financial spread betting market, Sky News reported earlier. FxPro has tens of thousands of UK clients but the sector received an unexpected blow in December when the Financial Conduct…
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Dash Financial announced that Dash and Convergex have signed a definitive agreement to merge Dash and LiquidPoint (Convergex’s Options Trading and Technology business), creating a financial technology company in the options and equities markets. Dash Financial is an institutional trading technology, execution and analytics provider. LiquidPoint is specialized in advanced options technology and routing services…
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The derivatives marketplace operator CME Group just keeps breaking records, announcing that 2016 average daily volume (ADV) reached 15.6 million contracts, up 12% from 2015. Five of CME Group's top ten daily volume days occurred within 2016, with three of those during the fourth quarter. CME Group fourth-quarter 2016 ADV reached a 16.3 million contracts, up…
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The European Energy Exchange EEX Group provides the central market platform for energy and commodity products. The offering of the group comprises contracts listed at the European Energy Exchange (EEX), EPEX SPOT, Powernext, Cleartrade Exchange (CLTX), Gaspoint Nordic and Power Exchange Central Europe (PXE) as well as clearing and settlement via European Commodity Clearing (ECC).…
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) plans to offer Renminbi (RMB) Currency Options and is aiming to roll out a US dollar/Offshore RMB (USD/CNH) contract in the first quarter of this year, subject to market readiness. HKEX’s USD/CNH Options provide the following trading benefits: Flexibility of trading and hedging strategies for various market conditions…
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The Autorité des Marches Financiers (AMF) is launching a public consultation, running until 31 January 2011, on the modifications to some of the provisions in its General Regulation. The intermediation in miscellaneous property system concerns two types of transactions: proposals in the form of advertising and direct marketing inviting individuals to subscribe to life annuities…
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CFFEX, SSE and SZSE take stake in Pakistan Stock Exchange Recently, China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX), Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE), Pak China Investment Company Limited and Habib Bank Limited as a consortium have won the bid to purchase a 40% stake in the Pakistan Stock Exchange. The three exchanges will hold…
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