Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) has announced that Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (ICBC) has joined as a Settlement Bank for Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC) - a wholly owned subsidiary of DGCX that acts as a central counterparty for all trades executed on the Exchange. With the addition of ICBC, DCCC…
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What makes a brokerage great? As much as the market has become overcrowded and competition has become fierce, some companies have managed to stand out from the rest and become what most would refer as “great”. Greatness is however not a destination, if merely because no company is perfect. Greatness is a path that a…
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Forex trading platform developer MetaQuotes has announced that the MetaTrader 5 platform now supports the Skrill payment system, which allows making online transaction in over 40 currencies by simply specifying an email address. Skrill is the eighth payment method featured in the trading platform. MetaTrader 5 also supports Visa, MasterCard and UnionPay cards, as well…
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SIX Swiss Exchange plans to work more closely with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in order to be even nearer to the beating heart of research. A twelve-year research cooperation agreement with Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC) at the ETH was sealed yesterday, making it an active cooperation partner for future…
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The following is based on research from DailyFX analyst Nick Cawley. DailyFX is a unit of IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG). For more of Nick's research see DailyFX.com. British Pound Falters on Concerns that UK Brexit Plans are Incomplete During a speech to the Lord Mayor’s Banquet, UK Prime Minister Theresa May said that the country should…
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The Court of Final Appeal (CFA) has dismissed C.L. Management Services Limited and its sole owner and director Ms Clarea Au Suet Ming’s application for leave to appeal against their convictions for holding out to provide advisory services on corporate finance without a licence from the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). On 29 April 2014,…
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ThinkMarkets, the global multi asset brokerage, has announced its first educational partnership with the London School of Economics’ Student Union Trading. ThinkMarkets will support LSESU Trading Society in its trading needs, providing continued expert insight with daily and weekly analysis. It will offer their unique and vast catalogue of educational tools including in-house seminars, webinars,…
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The swap to HTTPS offers users further cyber security to get all the Forex information they need to trade The Forex information website FXStreet has announced today the switch to HTTPS. FXStreet is one of the first Forex media websites to put up the lock icon and an extra “s” next to its URL on…
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eFX trading technology solutions provider TradAir has announced that Basis Capital, a UK based appointed representative of FCA regulated firm retail forex broker GCM Prime, is now live with TradAir’s trading platform. Basis Capital is calling its new TradAir-based HTML5 trading platform 'Optima X'. Basis also offers clients trading on MT4. The TradAir solution includes a comprehensive…
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In collaboration with UBS, Clearstream and Citi have designed an innovative market-side network model that enables banks and broker-dealers to optimise their operating models and reap the maximum benefit from TARGET2-Securities (T2S), the Pan-European settlement platform operated by the Eurosystem. The new solution will provide market participants with a single point of access to T2S,…
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