Plus500 new share buyback program
October 29, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Plus500 expands share buyback program with another $12.6 million

The company noted that all shares repurchased through the programme will be classified as shares held in treasury and will be taken out from circulation. According to the official announcement, all share purchases will take place in the open market. Liberum Capital Limited was appointed to manage this new programme. The London-listed forex and CFDs…

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Euronext
October 29, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Euronext BoD nominate Fabrizio Testa as CEO of Borsa Italiana

Stéphane Boujnah, CEO and Chairman of the Managing Board of Euronext N.V., said: I would like to thank Raffaele Jerusalmi for his significant contribution to the development of the Borsa Italiana Group and for his commitment to the integration of the Borsa Italiana Group within Euronext since the completion of the transaction in April 2021.…

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Refinitiv
October 28, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Refinitiv releases regulated Tokyo Swap Rate

Jacob Rank-Broadley, Head of LIBOR Transition, Benchmarks & Indices at LSEG, said: As the global financial markets migrate away from LIBOR, the launch of our Tokyo Swap Rate (for swaps referencing TONA) serves as a critical step to facilitate this transition to the new market convention. Now more than ever the industry requires robust and…

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October 28, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

CFTC and SEC charge SwapStar with investment fraud

The regulators noted that Rege and SwapStar used part of the money to trade commodity interests through accounts they owned. Some of the client funds were used to pay bogus gains to some clients, to return original investments amounts to others and to pay for some of Rage's personal expenses. Additionally, Rage failed to disclose…

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Broadridge Financial Solutions
October 28, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Broadridge goes live with proxy sub-custody services in Switzerland

Broadridge’s user community, which includes global and local custodian banks, brokers, wealth managers and central securities depositories (CSDs), is now able to  enhance the services they provide to Swiss market investors. The new service achieves that by enabling early receipt of issuer-verified event announcements, improved deadlines for submitting votes, confirmation of votes received by the…

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Cboe Global Markets
October 28, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Cboe introduces new type of options for retail traders – Nanos

Ed Tilly, Chairman, President and CEO of Cboe Global Markets, said: Our goal with Nanos is to use education to inspire and empower new market participants to pursue a sustainable financial future. We believe Nanos are more appropriately sized for retail traders and enable traders to better express their opinions on market movements at a…

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October 27, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

TP ICAP and Speedwell partner to launch ICAP-Speedwell Climate Index

TP ICAP noted that the Index will allow counterparties to flexibly create structures with varied payoffs over specific periods of time. These transactions will supply data for the Index to in turn provide a correlation between the global temperature change and financial risk appetite. Nicholas Ernst, Managing Director, Weather Markets, TP ICAP said: The introduction…

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Robinhood
October 27, 2021 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Robinhood sees crypto activity decline in Q3 2021

The drop led to considerably fewer new funded accounts and lower revenue in the third quarter of 2021 compared with the second quarter of 2021, according to Robinhood. The California-based online brokerage remained at a loss with pre-tax loss of $1.37 billion. The net loss stood at $1.32 billion, or $2.06 per diluted share. The…

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