fma warning
October 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

New Zealand FMA adds Safumax Group Limited to its warning list

New Zealand Financial Markets Authority (FMA) has recently added another name to its list of unregulated firms. The latest addition is the company Safumax Group Limited. The regulator expressed its concern that Safumax Group Limited (SGL) is operating from a false address, and its website www.safumax.com contains misleading information that SGL is a licensed entity…

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October 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

VivCourt extends the use of Itiviti tech, supports its global Asian derivatives business

Itiviti, a technology, and service provider to financial institutions worldwide, has announced that Vivienne Court Trading (VivCourt) has extended the use of Itiviti’s trading technology. VivCourt is an Australia-based, socially conscious investment firm, which trades across Asia and is now expanding into China, EMEA and Brazil. VivCourt has been using Itiviti's technology since 2011 for options…

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Daily Market analysis
October 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: The Pound is on the front foot today

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for October 15, 2019. See details below: FOREX/BREXIT After displaying some weakness on Monday, the pound is on the front foot during early Tuesday trading, once again approaching the highs reached last week. Investors are gaining confidence from comments made by Michel…

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CLS Group trading volumes
October 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS Group's ADV up 5% MoM in September

CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has just published its operating metrics for the month of September 2019. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.84 trillion, up 5.3 percent from USD1.75 trillion in August 2019.  Average daily traded volume submitted to CLS by…

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MAS Monetary Authority of Singapore
October 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

MAS: New initiatives to facilitate capital market activities between Singapore and China

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has yesterday shared with the pubic that new initiatives were underway to strengthen capital market activities between Singapore and China. The initiatives were discussed at the 15th Joint Council for Bilateral Cooperation between Singapore and China and aim to facilitate the growing interest of financial institutions based in Singapore…

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cme building
October 15, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CME Group offers real-time futures and options market data on Google Cloud Platform

Derivatives marketplace CME Group has announced that it will become the first derivatives marketplace to offer real-time futures and options market data on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The initiative starts November 17, 2019. Market participants will now be allowed to access CME Group's market data, including all CME Globex market data and third-party data sources,…

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FlexTrade adds Paul Beatty to team
October 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

ECC names Jens Rick its new Chief Information Officer

The Supervisory Board of European Commodity Clearing AG (ECC) has announced today that it has appointed Jens Rick to the Management Board of the clearing house. Jens Rick will assume the role of Chief Information Officer (CIO) of ECC effective from 1 November and will be responsible for the operation and development of ECC’s clearing…

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moex volumes report
October 14, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Interactive Brokers clients can now trade on Moscow Exchange

Moscow Exchange (MOEX) has today announced that it has teamed up with global electronic broker Interactive Brokers Group (Nasdaq: IBKR). The broker has begun providing access to the Russian market for all its clients in the US and worldwide. Interactive Brokers' clients can now fund their account in 24 currencies and trade assets from a…

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