January 29, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Japan's FSA warns against five unauthorized binary options brokers

Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has earlier today added five more providers of binary options trading services to its lists of unauthorized investment companies. The latest additions include the following binary options brands: On Binary Administration Office (aka Onbinary); Byne Administration Office (or simply, Byne); ZBinary Options (also known as Zone Options); Terapad Services Ltd…

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January 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Investment Trends 2015 UK Report: IG gains market share, clients praise CMC Markets, Saxo, OANDA

Research firm Investment Trends has recently published its 2015 UK Leveraged Trading Report, which monitors the attitudes and investing habits of UK spread betters and CFD/FX traders. The study, based on a survey of more than 11,000 traders and investors, concluded in July 2015. Key highlights include: UK leveraged trader numbers increased during 2015 in…

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January 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Options trading platform Quotail integrates with Tradier API

Brokerage-as-a-service company Tradier, Inc. has been quite active in gaining new partners lately: it recently reached the milestone of 100 financial service firms integrated with its brokerage API. After announcing a collaboration with predictive analytics platform WooTrader in December 2015, Tradier is now teaming up with options trading platform Quotail, which has integrated with the Tradier…

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January 28, 2016 BY Mike Fox

trueEX completes first electronic Mexican peso swap trades for institutional investors

trueEX, the first exchange approved by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as a Designated Contract Market (DCM) for swaps has created another industry innovation with the execution of the first dealer to client Mexican peso (MXN) interest rate swaps trades on its award-winning platform. Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Bank (SGCIB), and undisclosed institutional investors…

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January 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

SWIFT: Chinese yuan accounts for 2.31% of global payments in Dec'15

The latest SWIFT RMB Tracker, the study which tracks the Chinese yuan international adoption, was published today, showing that the Chinese currency gained share as a world payments currency in December 2015. In the last month of 2015, the RMB accounted for 2.31% of global payments, with an increased market share compared to 2.28% in…

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January 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Quebec regulator takes number of blacklisted trading companies to 73

The financial markets regulator of Canada's Quebec – AMF, has updated its “Black List” of unauthorized trading platforms targeting investors in the Canadian province. The latest additions to the list are 19 companies, thus taking the total number of blacklisted brokers to 73. As usual, the watchdog notes that the list is not exhaustive. AMF…

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January 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

ESMA appoints Anneli Tuominen as Vice Chair

The Board of Supervisors of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has appointed Anneli Tuominen, Director-General of Finnish financial regulator FIN-FSA, as its Vice Chair. Ms. Tuominen's appointment is effective immediately and is for a term of two years and a half. She succeeds Carlos Tavares, ex-Chairman of the Portuguese regulator CMVM, who has…

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January 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Spotware Systems completes Trading Central integration in cTrader

Spotware Systems, the developers of multi-asset trading platform cTrader, today announce the completion of the integration with Trading Central in cTrader. As a result, users of the platform can tap into the capabilities provided by a highly sophisticated and deeply integrated tool inside the cTrader platform. The tool receives Trading Central’s market data research which…

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January 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Clones target investment giant BlackRock in Hong Kong

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong has earlier today updated its Alert List of unlicensed companies, with the latest additions including a set of clone websites of investment giant BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK). The Hong Kong regulator notes that a company presenting itself as Blackrock Financial Co Ltd is misusing the details of…

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January 28, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

TriOptima reports successful first triReduce inflation swap compression cycle

Post trade infrastructure provider TriOptima, part of ICAP plc (LON:IAP), announces today that 18 banks participated in the first triReduce inflation swap compression cycle eliminating $98.5 billion notional in inflation index swaps for the European Union: EUR- Excluding Tobacco-Non-revised Consumer Price Index. Given that inflation swaps tend to be long dated with compounding coupons leading…

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