Saxo Bank enhances work with Watchlist, Positions List and Orders List in SaxoTraderGO LeapRate

April 29, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Saxo Bank enhances work with Watchlist, Positions List and Orders List in SaxoTraderGO

Multi-asset investment and trading services provider Saxo Bank keeps enhancing its innovative trading platform SaxoTraderGO, with the latest improvements concerning better navigation and organization of the trading environment. Let's examine the novelties: Sorting on columns Traders can now sort by most columns in the Watchlist, Positions List and Orders List by clicking on the column header.…

April 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

CBOE Livevol Data Shop website goes live, offers access to customizable market data sets

The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), owned by CBOE Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ:CBOE), today announces that it has launched a new website, CBOE Livevol Data Shop (datashop.cboe.com), offering clients a comprehensive suite of uniquely customizable market data sets. The new CBOE Livevol Data Shop provides users with access to a set of market intelligence for options,…

April 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Seabury Global Markets invests in Spotex

Advisory and professional services firm Seabury Group announced today that its recently launched Seabury Global Markets (SGM) entity has made an initial investment and entered into a multi-year, strategic partnership with FX ECN Spotex. The new partnership follows the January 2016 announcement of a Joint Product Offering, in which the Seabury Financial Solutions LLC (aka FXone)…

April 28, 2016 BY Mike Fox

CME Europe renews FX aggregation and discount incentive programs

CME Europe Limited (CMEEL) part of CME Group (NASDAQ: CME) today advised that Clearing Member and Customer Aggregation FX Incentive Programmes are due to expire and announced the renewal of these programmes as further described below: In order to allow time for members to apply, the existing programmes are extended by 4 days until April…

April 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

CME Group sees net income rise 11.3% Y/Y in Q1 2016

CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has just announced its financial and operating metrics for the first three months of 2016, with net income and revenues staging a rise in annual terms, on the back of robust trading volumes. Net income for the three months to March 31, 2016 amounted to $367.8 million, up 11.3% from the…

April 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Russia's NSD tests blockchain-based e-proxy voting prototype

While the Bank of Russia is still exploring the pros and cons of blockchain, the distributed ledger technologies have won support from the National Settlement Depository (NSD), part of the Moscow Exchange group of companies. NSD announces today that it has successfully finished developing and testing an e-proxy voting system running on a distributed ledger (blockchain…

April 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

BitPay teams up with Valve to bring bitcoin payments to Steam gamers

Bitcoin technology and payment processing company BitPay has announced a new partnership with a gaming giant. On Wednesday, the company announced a payment integration with software and gaming expert Valve which will bring bitcoin payments to Steam gamers. Founded in 1996, Valve's Steam platform is used by over 89 million gamers. Steam reaches 237 countries,…

April 28, 2016 BY LeapRate Staff

What no one is telling you about FX Margin Aggregation

Margin aggregation has become a popular topic amongst retail FX brokers recently with many having lost their Prime Broker relationships and with the squeeze on credit conditions.

April 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Azul, Pontus launch Zing-based Thread Manager to reduce risk of FX market arbitrage

Java runtime solutions expert Azul Systems and Pontus Networks have launched an Azul Zing-based edition of PontusVision Thread Manager (PVTM), which reduces capital and operational IT infrastructure expenditure by enhancing the way software threads run on specific CPU cores. Pontus’ PVTM aims to help financial institutions reduce the need for weeks of performance analysis by…

April 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

BitQuick misses deadline to resume operations, remains down

Bitcoin trading platform BitQuick, which fell victim to a cyber attack more than a month ago, has missed the deadline to resume operations and remains down. The BitQuick team provided another update on system status on Wednesday, saying the company is taking care of internal issues, on top of solving matters regarding platform security. BitQuick’s…