Shareholders of London Stock Exchange Group Plc (LON:LSE) are set to vote on the proposed merger with Deutsche Boerse AG (ETR:DB1) in July, according to a joint statement from the companies made this morning. LSEG and Deutsche Boerse note that they continue to make good progress with the preparation of the relevant documentation for their shareholders…
Read morePlaytech PLC (LON:PTEC) is today hosting its Annual General Meeting (AGM), with the company publishing a statement that its Chairman, Alan Jackson, will make. The statement includes a brief update on the recent developments at the company, including its financials division (Markets Limited), which was established after the acquisition of TradeFX (which includes the Markets.com…
Read moreTrading software developer PFSOFT today announces its collaboration with online trading services provider OANDA. OANDA will provide trade execution and market data to the PFSOFT PTMC (Protrader Multi-Connect) solution through OANDA’s REST API. OANDA’s retail traders are now able to use the PTMC platform with a wide variety of functionalities, including advanced charts, powerful drawings…
Read moreInternational derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) on Tuesday declared a second-quarter dividend of $0.60 per share. The dividend will be payable June 27, 2016, to shareholders of record as of June 10, 2016. The dividend is declared shortly after CME Group posted a set of solid metrics for the first quarter of 2016. During…
Read moreThe Financial Futures Association of Japan (FFAJ) has just published the monthly operating metrics of its members that offer Forex and binary options trading over the counter for April 2016. And although the drop in FX volumes lost pace, the decrease in binary options volumes remained substantial. As usual, we first take a look at…
Read moreHong Kong based Global eSolutions (HK) Limited (GES), a leading financial trading platform vendor announced today a new multi-asset trading and algo-ready platform – TX-AUTON. By offering lightning fast access to real-time data and up-to-the minute view of the markets, TX-AUTON helps investors and traders to efficiently identify trends and determine buy/sell decision intelligently. TX-AUTON provides…
Read moreThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announces another generous award to a whistleblower, as it will award between $5 million and $6 million to a former company insider whose tip helped the agency uncover securities violations. These would have been nearly impossible to detect had not it been for the whistleblower’s information. Today’s award is…
Read moreIt has been quite a journey for FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM)... And users of the Trading Station mobile application have been aware of the reasons for the broker not updating its mobile apps since January 2015. It was in late January last year, that the company released an update to Trading Station Mobile and after that…
Read moreMontréal 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…
Read moreOnline 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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