September 14, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Money.Net integrates Vela’s SuperFeed into its market data platform

Vela, a global industry leader in high performance trading and market data technology, has successfully on-boarded its consolidated market data feed, SuperFeed, at Money.Net, one of New York’s fastest growing financial services companies. Money.Net has integrated SuperFeed’s normalized low-latency content into its market data distribution platform allowing it to grow into other asset classes and…

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September 14, 2016 BY Mike Fox

RoboForex launches dedicated equities CFD platform

Another FX brokerage diversifying away from its core spot FX offering we learned about today includes RoboForex. The CySEC and IFSC regulated brokerage company has launched a dedicated platform and domain specifically for stock CFD trading at subdomain stock.roboforex.com. The CFD platform includes over 8,000 instruments including ETFs, leverage up to 1:20, and dividend payouts as…

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September 13, 2016 BY Mike Fox

CME Group announces first trades of new EU Wheat futures contract

CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced that the first EU Wheat futures contracts were traded on Monday, September 12, 2016. A total of 411 futures contracts were traded, equaling over 20,000 metric tons. Trades took place in five delivery months from December 2016 up to December 2017. Open…

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September 13, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Sun Bingo and Fabulous Bingo selected SafeCharge's payment technologies to provide players with a seamless deposit and more

SafeCharge (LON:SCH) has announced that Sun Bingo and Fabulous Bingo, Bingo brands of leading UK newspaper, The Sun, have selected SafeCharge’s advanced payment technologies to provide players with a seamless deposit and withdrawal journey. By selecting SafeCharge’s payments technologies, both Bingo brands are now providing players with a platform agnostic deposit and withdrawal solution that…

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September 13, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Oracle ERP users gain access to OANDA FX rates via FXLoader

OANDA Solutions for Business, the corporate-focused business unit of FX services provider OANDA Corporation, has announced that it has partnered with FX integration software provider FXLoader, to deliver automated exchange rates data to Oracle ERP customers. The partnership will enable users of Oracle JDEdwards, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle Cloud, and Peoplesoft to retrieve automated exchange rates…

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September 13, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Clearstream announces August report, prepares for its migration in February 2017

Clearstream has just announced its August report. The highlights last month are: - Successful TARGET2-Securities wave three migration - Clearstream prepares for its migration in February 2017 After the successful third migration wave, TARGET2 Securities (T2S) is now gaining momentum, and Europe is one step closer to a harmonised settlement. With its own migration drawing…

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September 13, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Euroclear successfully converts to TARGET2-Securities

Euroclear has announced migration of its ESES CSDs to the TARGET2-Securities (T2S) platform. The migration process was completed successfully, alongside the other CSDs connecting to T2S in Wave 3. T2S increases cross-border settlement efficiency in Europe and presents new opportunities for firms to access liquidity and finance their activity more effectively. Through their migration to the…

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September 13, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

iShares launches first ETFs on innovative sector indices in iSTOXX FactSet Thematic index family on Xetra

Deutsche Börse has announced that four new sector ETFs issued by BlackRock have been tradable on Xetra and Börse Frankfurt since Tuesday. The four iShare ETFs enable investors to invest for the first time in sectors only very recently offered by the iSTOXX FactSet Thematic index family. The ETFs track the themes: Automation & Robotics,…

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September 13, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM moving its shares from NYSE to NASDAQ

Retail forex broker FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) has announced that it is transferring its stock exchange listing to The NASDAQ Global Market. Since going public in 2010, FXCM shares have traded on the 'big board' New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). FXCM rival Gain Capital Holdings Inc (NYSE:GCAP) also trades on the NYSE. The last day of trading on the…

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