Australian-owned Forex (FX) and Contracts For Difference (CFD) trading provider AxiCorp, through its flagship AxiTrader brand, has become the first broker to offer Margin exotic FX contracts on MT4 based on prices derived from a rolling Non-Deliverable Forward (NDF). From today, traders will be able to access 10 new exotic Margin FX currency pairs from…
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Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats: BATS) has welcomed Premise Capital as a new issuer to the Bats ETF Marketplace with the launch of the Premise Capital Frontier Advantage Diversified Tactical ETF (Bats: TCTL). The fund, the first ETF launched by Premise, seeks to provide investment results that correspond generally to the total return of the Premise…
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With the latest US polls showing a too-close-to-call US Presidential election less than a week from the actual vote, the odds of a Hillary Clinton victory has been steadily dropping at some of the leading UK bookmakers taking bets on the election outcome. As recently as two weeks ago some of the bookmakers were calling…
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Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global provider of financial services technology solutions, has announced that Jim Grech has been named chief information officer, effective November 7, 2016. Grech succeeds Clifford (Cliff) Skelton, who will move into a new role after nearly five years in key leadership positions at Fiserv. Grech, who has spent the majority…
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In the third quarter of this year, volumes across Europe’s largest derivatives exchange Eurex suite of Fixed Income Futures have been strong with record figures in some segments. A combination of Brexit, an upcoming constitutional referendum in Italy and the Spanish elections, increased volatility in the underlying rate markets and thereby also the market’s hedging…
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FCA regulated retail forex broker Hantec Markets has decided to raise margins required by clients to support leveraged positions, ahead of next week's US Presidential election on November 8. Hantec sent out the following message to clients: Important Announcement: Margin Increase due to the US Presidential Election Dear Valued Client, Due to the expected volatility…
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Bats Global Markets, Inc. (Bats: BATS) today completed its acquisition of Javelin SEF, LLC (Javelin), a swap execution facility (SEF). The deal was announced on August 11, 2016 and received approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on October 23, 2016. Javelin has been integrated with Bats Hotspot, the institutional FX trading platform, in…
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Continuing a string of warnings against forex and binary options brokers targeting traders in Canada, Canadian securities regulator the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has issued a warning to investors regarding B4Binary, operating from website b4binary.com. The OSC actually issued two separate warnings - one to Service Global 52 Ltd which the B4Binary website states owns and operates the site,…
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IPC, a global provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, has announced that LMAX Exchange, the Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) for FX and one of the UK's fastest growing technology companies has joined the IPC FX Hub in the Equinix NY4 data centre. The IPC FX Hub supports the…
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Moscow Exchange has announces the results of the annual public load testing of its FX, derivative and equity trading and clearing platforms. The testing was performed on the DataSpace1 facilities that will become the Exchange's primary data center on 7 November. Such tests allow trade participants to measure the performance and capacity of their systems…
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