TMX Market Insights (TMX Group: TSE:X) has announced the launch of TMX Webstore, a new digital e-commerce platform featuring market data, analytics and applications from Canada's definitive source of record. Alpesh Sethia, Head of Digital Products and Innovation, TMX Group, commented: In today's highly competitive marketplace, modern investors are actively seeking data and applications to…
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued Orders of Registration to the following Foreign Boards of Trade (FBOT): Eurex Deutschland (Eurex) CME Europe Limited (CMEEL) ICE Futures Europe (IFE) The London Metal Exchange (LME) London Stock Exchange plc. (LSE) Under the Orders, each of the FBOTs is permitted to provide identified members or…
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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 CTOption. The British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) has already warned against CTOption earlier this year. CTOption is not authorised by the FCA but has been targeting people in…
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Activity on Nasdaq Dubai’s equity futures market has increased significantly in its second month, with 103,393 contracts traded in October, up 567% from 15,508 in September. The market opened on September 1, 2016, with single stock futures contracts on seven leading UAE-listed companies: Aldar Properties, Arabtec Holding, DP World, Dubai Islamic Bank, DXB Entertainments, Emaar…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority has announced that between July 2008 and November 2011 six individuals have been involved in the operation of an unauthorised collective investment scheme through three companies: Plott Investments Ltd (which changed its name to Plott UK Ltd), European Property Investments (UK) Ltd and Stirling Alexander Ltd. The scheme led to…
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The Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has just announced its trading volumes for October, 2016. The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures in October was 133,954 ( △ 48.5% MoM / △ 16.3% YoY) and its average daily volume was 6,698 . See the table below for the composition of the trading volume: Items October 2016…
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Post trade infrastructure provider TriOptima, part of ICAP plc (LON:IAP), has announced that an increasing number of financial institutions are joining the triResolve Margin service in anticipation of the new variation margin rules for non-cleared OTC derivatives effective 1 March 2017. These institutions include a variety of dealers, buy-side and corporates such as B &…
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FCA regulated multi asset broker ThinkMarkets has announced that it is partnering with SwipeStox, the mobile-based social trading provider, to bring their customers an extensive mobile application social trading service. This marks another major client win for SwipeStox, after it landed FXCM as a client of its social trading app this summer. We had first…
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LeapRate has learned that Oanda Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Drew Izzo has left the company, becoming the latest in a string of senior level departures at Oanda over the past year or so. The very engaging Mr. Izzo has posted a message stating 'Free Agent at Large' on his LinkedIn page, indicating that his two…
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Hong Kong’s financial regulator the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its Alert List, which features the names of businesses that are unlicensed in Hong Kong and are believed to be, or to have been, targeting Hong Kong investors or claim to have an association with Hong Kong. Added to the SFC Alert List…
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