GMO Click continues its Equity Trading Value plunge in September LeapRate

October 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

GMO Click continues its Equity Trading Value plunge in September

GMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177) has released the following monthly preliminary report of its subsidiaries for September 2016. Preliminary figures described below are subject to change. The total of Equity Trading Value keeps dropping from July - 1,661,545 in September. Numbers of Executed Equity Trades were also down last month. See details in the table below: To see…

October 05, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Belgium Forex and Binary Options ban backfiring as unregulated brokers filling the void

LeapRate Exclusive... LeapRate has learned that the Belgium government's ban on leveraged Forex, CFD and Binary Options trading in order to 'protect Belgian consumers of financial services' has effectively backfired. At least so far. As reported at LeapRate, Belgium's financials regulator FSMA announced the ban in mid August, giving brokers serving Belgian customers a few weeks…

October 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

FCA fines Aviva Pension Trustees UK Limited and Aviva Wrap UK Limited £8.2m for Client Money and Assets failings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today fined Aviva Pension Trustees UK Limited and Aviva Wrap UK Limited (together Aviva) £8,246,800 for failings in its oversight of its outsourced providers in relation to the protection of client assets. Mark Steward, Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight at the FCA said: Aviva outsourced the administration of…

October 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

ICAP reports 8% rise in September ADV data 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 September 2016. After the heavy summer slowdown last several months, there is a solid rise in September's ADV data volumes numbers and a jump of 8% MoM. EBS Volumes have climbed with whole 19%…

October 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

ThinkMarkets launches Arabic website

FCA and ASIC regulated retail forex and CFD broker ThinkMarkets has launched its Arabic website, catering to the needs of the Arabic speaking FX trading community. The new website offers ThinkMarket’s ThinkTrader platform and offers access to all of its functions including pattern recognition, tools and analysis services. The site enables ThinkMarkets to offer multi-lingual solutions to comprehensively…

October 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

CBOE reports 25% ADV MoM increase in September

CBOE Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBOE) has reported that September average daily volume (ADV) for options contracts traded on Chicago Board Options Exchange® (CBOE®) and C2 Options Exchange (C2), and futures contracts traded on CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE®) was 5.1 million contracts, an increase of 25% from August 2016 and 3% from September 2015. Trading Volume…

October 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

SafeCharge chosen by Italian online gaming provider Sisal.it for payments and withdrawals

Payments services and technologies provider SafeCharge International Group Ltd (LON:SCH) has announced that Sisal.it, the online gaming platform of the Italian group operating in the Gaming and Payment Services sector, has selected SafeCharge to facilitate players' deposit and withdrawal journey, fraud prevention, cards acquiring and alternative payments acceptance for the Italian market. SafeCharge's Personalised Cashier enables…

October 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Monex Group OTC FX volumes increase 8.70% in September

Japanese forex broker Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698) has just published its key operating metrics for September 2016 and its Global daily average revenue trades (DARTs) increased 8.69% from August levels and the whole summer slowdown, coming in at 251,188. DARTs for Monex’s TradeStation Group were slightly up to 61,815. The number of OTC FX accounts was also up last…

October 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Turnover at Deutsche Börse’s cash markets at 109.1 billion euros in September

Order book turnover on Xetra, Börse Frankfurt and Tradegate Exchange across all asset classes stood at €109.1 billion in September (September 2015: €142.3 billion). Of the €109.1 billion, €100.8 billion were attributable to Xetra (September 2015: €133.9 billion). The average daily turnover on Xetra stood at €4.6 billion in September (September 2015: €6.1 billion). A…

October 05, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

ASIC remakes and repeals 'sunsetting' class orders on markets and securities

ASIC has remade ten legislative instruments and repealed three that are due to expire ('sunset') in 2016 and 2017, following public consultation. ASIC has remade these instruments before they sunset. The new instruments will continue the substantive effects of the previous instruments with some minor amendments, which include simplifying the drafting to give greater clarity.…