November 22, 2014 BY LeapRate Staff

CLS settled FX volumes down 11% in October to $5.29 trillion ADV

After surging to record volumes in September, things cooled off a little in October for CLS, the world's largest FX settlement service - and therefore a good proxy for overall activity in the world's currency markets. The average daily input value submitted to CLS in October was $5.29 trillion, down 10.9% from a record $5.94…

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November 22, 2014 BY Mike Fox

ECB drops Citigroup from FX contact group

A source familiar with the matter said the ECB's decision seemed to be related to currency manipulation fines from last week. Citi was fined the most of the six banks involved, just outstripping the $1.012 billion levied on J.P. Morgan.

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November 20, 2014 BY LeapRate Staff

SEC suspends trading in shares of questionable Ebola prevention and treatment companies

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) today suspended trading in four companies that claim to be developing products or services in response to the Ebola outbreak, citing a lack of publicly available information about the companies’ operations. The SEC simultaneously issued an investor alert warning about the potential for fraud in microcap companies purportedly…

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