November 02, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

FXSpotStream announces 10.7% jump in October's FX volumes

Multibank FX aggregation service FXSpotStream has reported that October volumes on its system have made quite a jump with 10.7% MoM to $17,104 million Average Daily Volume. FXSpotStream’s best-ever month still remains this past February, at $21 billion ADV. FXSpotStream provides liquidity from 12 leading global banks – BofA Merrill Lynch, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, BNP…

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November 02, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

ICAP reports 2.6% rise in October's EBS FX volumes MoM

Markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services ICAP plc (LON:IAP) has published the average daily volume data for October 2016. After the heavy summer slowdown last several months, there's been a solid rise in September’s ADV data volumes numbers. A rise continues to be seen in October's report. EBS Volumes…

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November 02, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Blackwell Global hikes margin requirements by 2x, 3x for Presidential Election

It was just announced today that UK-FCA regulated FX brokerage Blackwell Global in light of the 58th quadrennial United States presidential election being held on Tuesday, 8 November, 2016, Blackwell Global will increase the margins on selected instruments from Sunday, 6 November 2016, 9:00pm (GMT). The firm's Cyprus regulated office had announced the same margin adjustments…

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November 02, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

UK crowdfunding company Crowd for Angels partners with Paysafe

The UK crowdfunding company Crowd for Angels has announced that it has selected digital payment solutions provider Paysafe Group Plc (LON:PAYS) as its payment processing provider. Crowd for Angels required a payments partner that could ensure the efficient processing of client card transactions. Paysafe’s global payment processing capabilities and regulated acquiring business met Crowd for…

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Bank of China (UK) Limited joins LCH’s SwapClear
November 02, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

LCH to launch LCH SwapAgent, a centralised service for the non-cleared derivatives market

The global clearing house LCH has announced today that it will be launching a new service for the non-cleared derivatives market. LCH SwapAgent will benefit from LCH’s expertise in serving and managing risk for the cleared rates & FX derivatives market, providing market participants with a number of solutions designed to materially improve standardisation, efficiency…

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November 02, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

AxiTrader to offer Margin exotic FX contracts on MT4

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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November 02, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Odds of a Clinton victory slipping at UK bookmakers

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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