The European Central Bank and Bank of Japan are embarking on a research project looking into the use of distributed ledger technologies for market infrastructure. In a speech this week, ECB executive board member Yves Mersch stressed that the bank cannot "at this stage" consider basing its market infrastructure on DLT because the technology is…
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INTL FCStone Inc. (NASDAQ: INTL) today announced that its London-based subsidiary, INTL FCStone Ltd's Global Payments Division (GPD), has appointed François Beau Yon de Jonage as Senior Vice President. He joins the Company from Société Générale, where he served as Head of the firm's Global Exotic Currency Service. Mr. Beau Yon de Jonage is a…
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Fidessa Group plc (LSE: FDSA) has today announced that seventeen Hong Kong-based brokers have been using Fidessa for the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect link since it went live on 5th December. Eva Fu, Product Marketing Manager at Fidessa, said the uptake of Fidessa’s Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect solution had been rapid due to the success…
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This article was written by Konstantin Rabin, CEO at Forex Library. Retail FX is certainly an overall profitable niche, yet it gets harder every day to find the best markets. It is quite common to see the vast majority of unregulated Forex brokers going into Asia, especially Southeast Asian countries. This is why it just…
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Today, the shares of Varia US Properties AG have been listed in accordance with the «Standard for Real Estate Companies» and are traded on SIX Swiss Exchange for the first time. The IPO consists of an offering of 3‘097‘074 newly issued registered shares of the Company with a nominal value of CHF 1.00 each. Additionally…
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CySEC brokerage firm Orbex recommitted to another year of WodWars Limassol sponsorship and is confirmed as the main sponsor of the flagship athletic event of Cyprus, WodWars Europe Competition, which will be held December 10-11. WodWars Competition is an annual event, gathering the best European athletes, who are coming to challenge their strength, stamina and…
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TMX Group (TSX:X) today announced its financing activity on Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange for November 2016. Toronto Stock Exchange welcomed six new issuers in November 2016, compared with 13 in the previous month and one in November 2015. The new listings included one exchange traded fund, three mining companies and two oil…
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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 announced that the EURO STOXX 50 Futures Roll Index has been licensed to Horizons ETFs Management (Canada) Inc. to serve as the underlying index for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Canada. The ETF is…
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LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned via regulatory filings that FCA regulated Retail Forex and CFDs broker Hantec Markets saw significant growth in its business this year. For the year ended June 30, 2016, Revenues at Hantec Markets rose by 62% over 2015 to £5.4 million (USD $7 million), versus £3.3 million last year. The company turned…
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Sports stars betting firm Football INDEX has announced an exclusive partnership with MT4 integration specialist Gold-i, to create a new and highly innovative ‘tradeable market’ in football players for the MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 trading platforms. Planned to launch in Q2 2017, traders using MT4 or MT5 will be able to buy or sell…
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