ACY Securities appoints Alistair Schultz as new Chief Market Analyst LeapRate

February 14, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

ACY Securities appoints Alistair Schultz as new Chief Market Analyst

ACY Securities announced the appointment of Alistair Schultz as their new Chief Market Analyst. Schultz has 15 years of trading experience in FX and CFD markets. He has worked with institutional clients with focus on algorithmic trading, as well as retail clients, providing market analysis. With vast experience as analyst, educator and trading coach, Schultz…

February 14, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: RBS sees profits double but shares sink

Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for February 14, 2020. On Thursday on its quarterly earnings call, Chinese technology giant Alibaba set out a multitude of ways in which its business is being impacted by the coronavirus epidemic. CEO Daniel Zhang warned that the…

February 14, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

SGX RegCo uses AI enhancements in its surveillance activities

Singapore Exchange Regulation (SGX RegCo) is making its monitoring and regulating system more effective with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) improvements. Introducing AI in regulation can help single out unusual trading activities through analysis of historical data and avoiding noise from developments between the financial markets. Thus, the regulatory agency can focus on smaller…

February 14, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

FXCM announces steady execution data report in January

Retail forex broker FXCM (NYSE:FXCM) released its execution data report for January 2020. January 2020 all instruments highlights include: 72.2% of orders executed at price, down 1% MoM 23.0% of orders executed with positive slippage, up 11% from the previous month 4.8% of orders executed with negative slippage, down 24% MoM Average execution speed 16 milliseconds Highlighted…

February 14, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: Mixed opening for European markets

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts prepared their daily commentary on traditional markets for February 14, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: EUROPEAN SHARES The trading mood lacked certainty at the end of the week with a mixed opening for European markets, with no clear direction nor significant volatility as investors still struggle to…

February 14, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

BCS Global Markets, BCS Broker and Argus research announce partnership agreement

Financial service group, BCS Global Markets, BCS Broker and US independent research analysis of US equities company, Argus Research announced earlier this week their partnership agreement. Clients of BCS Global Markets and BCS Broker will be able to regularly take advantage of the analytical data Argus Research provides for daily markets and company reports, macroeconomic…

February 13, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily Market News: Miners lead FTSE 100 close to positive territory in 2020

Adam Vettese, UK Market Analyst at eToro, has provided his daily commentary on traditional and crypto markets for February 13, 2020. Barclays reported a better than expected profit before tax of £6.2bn for 2019, up 9% year on year as its investment bank revealed bumper returns from fixed income trading. Investors weren’t doing much celebrating…

February 13, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

Euronext reports double-digit growth in revenue for 2019

The pan-European exchange Euronext has just announced its trading volumes for Q4 and the full year. The acquisition of Oslo Børs VPS last year has significant contributions to Euronext’s revenue and all Oslo activity from July 2019 are included in the report. Highlights from the performance report include: Euronext sees a double-digit revenue growth for…

February 13, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Crude oil prices could bounce as Coronavirus panic settles

The following article was prepared by Alejandro Zambrano, Chief Market Strategist at ATFX. Coronavirus Spread Slows In late January, the financial markets reacted forcefully to the news of the Coronavirus. Most of the damage to markets occurred in the China stock indices, such as the Shanghai Composite, which slid by 13.32% from January 21 to February…

February 13, 2020 BY Steffy Bogdanova

DTCC calls for coordinated security strategy on distributed ledger technology

With the expected growth of distributed ledger technology (DLT) implementation, the post-trade financial services company, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), published a white paper on security issues and guidelines for securing DLT networks. The paper recommends establishing comprehensive DLT Security Framework to review existing security protocols, gaps in the procedures and increase the security…