KCG Holdings, Inc. Class A (NYSE:KCG) has just published its operating metrics for February 2016, with the month bringing a double-digit month-on-month decline in market making volumes for the company. In Market Making, KCG averaged $31.2 billion dollar volume traded, 4.4 billion shares traded, and 4.3 million trades per day in U.S. Equities. The result…
Read moreLeapRate Exclusive Interview... The issue of Automation seems to be coming up a lot more lately in the lexicon of Forex and Binary Options brokers. Following the lead of brokers (such as Plus500) which have been very successful at automating their operations - including everything from customer acquisition to retention - we have been witnessing…
Read morePost trade infrastructure provider TriOptima, part of ICAP plc (LON:IAP), announces today that market participants have eliminated more than $750 trillion in notional principal outstanding via its multilateral compression service for OTC derivatives triReduce. Since the launch of the service in 2003, over 210 financial institutions have participated in this risk-reducing achievement which includes compression…
Read moreShortly after announcing a 10-month ban on Mr Jia Zhen, former China Merchants Securities (HK) Co., Limited (CMSHK) account executive, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong announces a similar penalty for Mr Ng Hongs. Mr Ng Hongs is also a former account executive of CMSHK, a subsidiary of subsidiary of China Merchants…
Read moreIndividuals and organizations engaged in Bitcoin-related activities in Russia face tougher penalties than originally envisaged, under plans drafted by the Ministry of Finance. As per LeapRate's earlier report, Russia's Ministry of Finance is set to submit a bill with the nation's parliament not later than June this year, with the document to contain a set…
Read moreWith Tradency and its CEO Lior Nabat having invented the Mirror Trading concept more than a decade ago, when the company launches a new product it pays to pay attention. LeapRate was pleased to speak recently with Lior and Tradency's VP of Sales Oz Golan, to get an inside peek at its latest offering called…
Read moreTaiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) has just published its operating metrics for February 2016, with overall trading volumes, and yuan futures volumes in particular, decreasing in monthly terms. Overall trading volumes at the Exchange amounted to 13,258,237 contracts, down 52.5% from the 28,001,613 contracts traded in January 2016. On the brighter side, the annual comparison was…
Read moreAfter turbulence rattled Chinese stock market early this year, first forcing the implementation and then the suspension of a circuit breaker mechanism, the nation's securities regulator has updated on the potential use of the controversial mechanism. Liu Shiyu, Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), was quoted by Xinhua as saying that China will not…
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 February 2016. While OTC Forex volumes had another strong month, binary options volumes staged a double-digit drop on a monthly basis. As usual, we first examine the…
Read moreMarketDelta, a Chicago-based trading software company, has made available white labeling of its MarketDelta Cloud, a comprehensive trading and charting solution for futures traders. The company offers brokers and futures commission merchants (FCMs) to white label MarketDelta Cloud. MarketDelta promises that it can custom tailor the solution in less than a week (start to finish)…
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