BSE, Asia’s oldest stock exchange and now the world’s fastest stock exchange with a speed of 6 microseconds today launched a new service for Algorithm Trading test environment in partnership with Symphony Fintech Solutions Pvt Ltd. This will enable all market participants to test their trading algorithms in Equity, Equity Derivative and Currency Derivative segments…
Read moreLeading Australian retail Forex and CFD broker AxiTrader continues to build its offering. Shortly after the addition of the Nikkei 225 index to its lineup of tradable instruments, the broker is now presenting its clients with the opportunity to trade the FTSE China A50 index. The FTSE China A50 Index is considered as the benchmark for investors…
Read moreThe Financial Futures Association of Japan (FFAJ) has earlier today posted the monthly operating metrics of its members that offer Forex and binary options trading over the counter for December 2015. The Forex and binary options segments both showed significant increases in trading volumes last month, with Forex volumes staging a rise of 18% from…
Read moreGMO Click Holdings Inc (TYO:7177), the parent company of Japanese online trading giant GMO Click Securities, today posted its preliminary financial metrics for December 2015. After a subdued November, the company managed to see a recovery in its operating revenues, which reached JPY 2.53 billion ($21.6 million) in December 2015. The result, which is the…
Read moreLess than a month after the proposed merger of Paddy Power plc and Betfair Group Ltd (LON:BET) got the nod of consent of the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the deal secures the approval of Ireland's Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC). The Irish watchdog today announced that it has cleared the proposed merger.…
Read moreRetail Forex broker FxPro today announces pending changes to the margin requirements for positions with currency pairs with the South African Rand (ZAR). The company said it will be increasing the margin requirements for all ZAR pairs to 1%. The new requirement will be effective January 18, 2016 (Monday) at 00:00 (server time). FxPro explains that…
Read moreTradeKing has apparently hired BofA as its investment banker in seeking a buyer for the company.
Read moreNovatti Group Limited, a payments processing platform that aims to facilitate mobile and alternative payments, today announces its Admission to the official list of ASX Limited (ASX). The official quotation of the company's securities is set to start at 12pm (AEDT) on Monday, January 18, 2016. The quoted securities comprise 63,781,780 fully paid ordinary shares.…
Read moreThe following is a special guest post by FCA-regulated Forex and CFD broker Hantec Markets, on the one-year anniversary of last year's surprise Swiss Franc spike. [divide] Black Swanniversary For a while, the export driven economy of Switzerland has been hamstrung by the strength of the Swiss franc as its major trading partner, the Eurozone,…
Read moreThe last down cycle in the Loonie saw it dip down to 62 cents. Will that happen again?
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