April 12, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

CME Group reports successful start of clearing of Interest Rate Swaptions

In line with its plans to launch IRS clearing, international derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) announces today that it cleared its first interest rate swaptions trade on April 11, 2016. CME Group is the first clearing house to commence swaptions clearing. There are five clearing members currently approved to clear swaptions, including Barclays, BNP…

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April 12, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Signal Start's Forex Signals app gets updated

Signal Start, a professional one stop shop signal service for signal followers and signal providers, on Monday rolled out an updated version of its Forex Signals application for Android devices. The latest version (1.03) is released shortly after the company made the solution available in 14 new languages, obviously seeking to widen the user count.…

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April 12, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Saxo Bank announces five most traded shares on SaxoTraderGO in Q1 2016

Multi-asset trading and investment services provider Saxo Bank has announced the five most traded equities on the SaxoTraderGO platform for the first quarter of 2016. The ranking goes as follows: Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) Vestas Wind Systems A/S (CPH:VWS) Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) Saxo Bank offers its clients access to 19,000 global…

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April 12, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

UK regulator bans ex-RBS LIBOR submitter Paul White

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today announced the imposition of a ban on Paul White, a former a Japanese Yen (JPY) and Swiss Franc (CHF) LIBOR submitter at Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (LON:RBS). Mr White is banned from performing any function in relation to any regulated financial activity. The FCA has ruled…

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April 12, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

TradingView starts offering real-time data from Indian exchanges

Financial visualization expert TradingView announced on Monday the beginning of offering of official real-time and intraday data from two Indian stock exchanges – the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange. Pro, Pro Plus and Premium account holders with TradingView can purchase BSE market data subscription for $4 per month. At present, NSE data…

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April 12, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FxPro changes margin requirements for Energy Products

Online trading services provider FxPro has informed its clients of pending changes to trading conditions on energy products (spot & futures). Effective April 12, 2016 10:00 GMT+3, the margin requirements and swaps for Energy financial instruments will be amended. Margin will increase to 1% whereas swaps will also be affected. The changes will apply to both…

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April 12, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

New Zealand's FMA voices concerns regarding offshore investment firms (again)

New Zealand's Financial Markets Authority (FMA) keeps its battle against investment companies seeking to defraud local investors with promises of easy money and artificially high profits. In a special announcement out today, the New Zealand regulator alerts investors against dealing with firms whose services and products fall outside the perimeter of regulation. The FMA says…

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April 12, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Binary Options Scam Watch: Japan's FSA warns against TR Binary Options

Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has earlier today updated its lists of businesses that are not authorized to target Japanese investors but nevertheless do so. The latest business to get a warning for providing investment services in Japan without registration is Cheshire Capital Ltd, operating as TR Binary Options. The binary options broker offers its…

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April 12, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

FXCM retail volumes off 6% in March, but institutional up 57%

Retail forex broker FXCM Inc (NYSE:FXCM) has announced key customer trading metrics for March 2016 for both its retail and institutional foreign exchange business. Not surprisingly, retail volumes in March were down at FXCM (by 6%), in line with what we have seen at most other leading brokers. However institutional volumes popped more than 50%…

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