July 19, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

TTG selects Ancoa’s surveillance platform to monitor multi-asset trading activities

Ancoa, provider of contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, buy & sell-side firms, has announced that the financial consultant Tower Trading Group (TTG) has selected Ancoa’s market surveillance platform to monitor its multi-asset trading activities across all exchanges and Independent Services Providers (ISVs). Deployment of the Ancoa platform has been timed and designed to enhance…

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July 19, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

ICAP routes €212 billion notional equity baskets into Bats Europe’s ETR service

Interdealer broker ICAP plc (LON:IAP) and global exchanges operator Bats Global Markets, Inc. (BATS:BATS) have announced that following a successful launch of ICAP’s cleared equity basket solution in April 2015, over €212 billion of notional trades have been routed through the Bats Exchange Trade Reporting (ETR) service for clearing during the financial year ended June…

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July 19, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

Exiger expands, acquires the Poseidon Group

Exiger, the global regulatory and financial crime, risk and compliance firm, has announced the acquisition of The Poseidon Group, the Hong Kong and Singapore-based due diligence and business intelligence firm. With this acquisition, Exiger deepens its expertise throughout the Asia Pacific region. With the addition of Poseidon into its growing portfolio of specialized due diligence and…

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July 19, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Horizon Software announces new low-latency native connectivity to Athens Exchange

Electronic trading technology provider Horizon Software has announced native connectivity to the Athens Exchange (ATHEX) for cash equities and derivatives. Horizon now provides more than 80 native gateways to exchanges and trading venues around the world. In Greece, Horizon provides low latency connectivity for transactions (ODL API 2.0 Dcom) and market data (IDS/IOCP). Now in production…

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July 19, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Chan Wai Kin joins XTX Markets as Head of Sales for Asia

XTX Markets today announced that Chan Wai Kin has joined the firm’s sales team as Head of Sales for Asia. He was formerly Head of FICC eCommerce (APAC) at Morgan Stanley and previous to that, led the eFX sales team within the APAC (ex-Japan) region at Deutsche Bank. Jeremy Smart, Global Head of Sales at…

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July 19, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

Indicators and events for week: ECB meeting, preliminary July PMIs

The following article is based on research by Marshall Gittler, Head of Investment Research for FXPRIMUS. [divide] FXPRIMUS Indicators and events for week beginning July 18:  ECB meeting, preliminary July PMIs The week starts off slow, with little on the schedule today. But things gradually pick up with a few but important indicators, and by…

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July 19, 2016 BY Valentina Kirilova

IG announces annual results, profit is up 7.6%

IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) has announced results for the year ended 31 May 2016. While Revenues and Profits were up nicely in the second half of Fiscal 2016, Revenues in Q4 (£119M) did take a small dip from what was a very busy and record Q3 at IG (£122M). Profits in the second half…

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July 19, 2016 BY Mike Fox

BGC Partners set to acquire financial derivatives provider Sunrise Brokers

BGC Partners, Inc. (NASDAQ: BGCP) a leading global brokerage company servicing the financial and real estate markets, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire the businesses of Sunrise Brokers Group, an independent financial brokerage with a leading reputation in worldwide equity derivatives. Details of the transaction were not disclosed, and completion of…

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