May 17, 2016 BY Mike Fox

Luc Fortin to join Montréal Exchange as Managing Director, Derivatives Trading

Montréal Exchange (MX), a derivatives bourse located in Montreal, that trades futures contracts and options on equities, indices, currencies, ETFs, energy and interest rates today announced the appointment of Luc Fortin as Managing Director, Derivatives Trading, effective June 27, 2016. Mr. Fortin will be responsible for developing and deploying strategies to grow the derivatives business. He…

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May 17, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Interactive Brokers adds more Statement/Balance Sheet Columns in TWS

Online trading services provider Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR) keeps enhancing the functionalities of its proprietary TWS platform. The broker has added a new series of more than 30 new statement and balance sheet-focused Fundamentals columns to the TWS layout. Traders can add these columns to a watchlist, quote monitor and other TWS tools by…

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May 17, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

CLS’ daily input volume stages 3.6% M/M rise in April 2016

CLS Group (CLS), a market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has earlier today published its operating metrics for April 2016. The average daily input volume submitted to CLS, combining the settlement and aggregation services, was 1,073,203 last month, marking a rise of 3.6% from 1,035,678 in March 2016. In…

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May 17, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

MOEX makes new risk transfer functionality between Derivatives and FX markets available for testing

Moscow Exchange, or Moskovskaya Birzha MMVB-RTS PAO (MCX:MOEX), the biggest Russian venue for trading shares, FX and derivatives, today announces that a new risk transfer functionality between Derivatives and FX markets is available for testing. The planned date for the production release is June 27, 2016. Risk transfer between Derivatives and FX markets: In SPECTRA…

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May 17, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

AMF turns to France's president regarding Forex advertising ban

Gérard Rameix, head of France's securities regulator AMF, has addressed the nation's president François Hollande, voicing his concerns regarding the risks associated with trading online, and Forex trading in particular. The letter mentions that in the face of the regulatory efforts to curb the investors' exposure to such high-risk products, the amount of losses from…

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May 17, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Spain's CNMV warns against investment firm Tiger Asset Management

Spain's securities regulator CNMV keeps updating its investor warning list, with one more entity getting a warning today – Tiger Asset Management. The company, which purports to be located in the United States, targets a wide clientele, offering its services in a variety of languages, ranging from English to Bulgarian. The website of the company…

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May 17, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Updated Thomson Reuters Eikon app for iOS supports Monitor Lists

Thomson Reuters Corp (NYSE:TRI) has recently released an updated version of its Eikon application for iOS mobile devices. The latest version (4.4) of the solution offers support for Monitor Lists. In addition, it features improved badge count on Alerts icon, for an accurate count of unread alerts, maintained across devices. Thomson Reuters Eikon seeks to…

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