TradeStation, part of Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698), has earlier this week released an update to its TradeStation Mobile application for iOS gadgets. The latest version of the solution (version 3.0) is noteworthy for the fact that it supports option spreads, the main building blocks of options trading strategies. Traders can select from a list of…
Read moreRetail Forex broker TeleTrade has joined the line of companies applying for a Russian Forex dealer license. The company announced on Wednesday that it has filed the necessary documents and that it hopes to get the license sometime in the first quarter of 2016. The Bank of Russia has 60 business days to review the…
Read moreRussian financial companies are increasingly looking at exploring and tapping the possibilities of blockchain technology. After payment services provider Qiwi PLC (NASDAQ:QIWI) voiced its plans to launch its own crypto currency using blockchain, Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) has voiced its willingness to develop blockchain-based products and use them in its services. Lev A. Khasis, First Deputy…
Read moreUK financial regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a warning against a clone of regulated forex broker IIB International Broker. The real IIB, which also goes by IIB FX, is based in Sofia, Bulgaria. According to the FCA, fraudsters are using or giving out the following details as part of their tactics to scam…
Read moreGaming and betting provider Ladbrokes PLC (LON:LAD) today provided a report of a transaction in its shares that took place on December 9, 2015. John Kelly, the newly appointed Chairman of Ladbrokes, acquired 30,000 shares in the company. The price paid per share was 116.02p. Non-executive director Mark Pain also bought shares in Ladbrokes yesterday. He…
Read moreJust a day after the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) said it had imposed a monetary penalty on Etrade Australia Securities Limited over an order handling infringement, the Australian regulator is again sanctioning a company for similar reasons. D2MX Pty Ltd (D2MX) has agreed to pay a penalty of $120,000 to comply with an infringement…
Read moreCME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has announced it will pay annual variable dividend of $2.90 per share, giving a total of approximately $977 million. The dividend is payable January 12, 2016, to shareholders of record on December 28, 2015. CME Group adopted its annual variable dividend structure in February 2012 and paid its first annual variable…
Read moreThe self-regulatory organization for the U.S. derivatives industry, National Futures Association (NFA), has barred Chicago, Illinois based X-Change Financial Access LLC (commonly known as 'XFA') from operating as a futures commission merchant (or 'FCM'), allowing XFA to only operate as an NFA Member introducing broker. In addition, the NFA has ordered XFA to pay a $75,000 fine.…
Read morePragma Securities, an independent provider of quantitative trading technology, and MarketFactory, a leading provider of FX market access and pre-trade risk management solutions, announce that they have completed an integration for a mutual global bank client of the two firms. Pragma360 FX offers a full suite of trading tools, including execution algorithms, full transaction cost…
Read moreCME Group (NASDAQ: CME) the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced it reached a trading volume record for combined NYMEX WTI futures and options yesterday, December 8, of 1,841,295 contracts compared to the previous record of 1,772,232 contracts on August 31, 2015. Additionally, WTI futures set a trading volume record of 1,595,710…
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