In order to be successful according to conventional wisdom, one must have certain positive attributes, market awareness, and a plan for resource deployment and management, but, even if these stars line up correctly, timing is everything. The Intercontinental Exchange Inc. (ICE), the owner and operator of the New York Stock Exchange, has been trying to…
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Traiana, a trade life-cycle and risk management solutions provider, just announced that it has provided direct central clearing connectivity to Eurex, part of Deutsche Börse Group. This connectivity agreement is well-timed for market participants keen to use our services to consolidate their OTC clearing processes and benefit from an increase in clearing activity at Eurex,"…
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ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for Leaprate their daily commentary on traditional markets for May 9, 2019. Gold Gold was unable to break the first resistance placed at $1,288, confirming that the times are not mature for another bullion rally yet. Despite the escalation of tension between US and Iran and Trump’s tweet detailing his…
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The UK regulator FCA has issued several Decision Notices today in respect of three firms and five individuals. The companies names are Financial Page Ltd, Henderson Carter Associates Limited and Bank House Investment Management Limited and the individuals - Andrew Page, Thomas Ward, Aiden Henderson, Robert Ward and Tristan Freer. The FCA will take the…
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The current crypto narrative for success holds as a primary principle the fact that demand for cryptos will ignite when the floodgates are open for institutional investors to participate in crypto financial markets. An “institutional investor” can be many things, including banks, pension funds, hedge funds, commingled funds, family offices, and, which is often overlooked,…
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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 April 2019. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was USD1.63 trillion down 12.5 percent from USD1.86 trillion in March 2019. The complete results can be seen in the table…
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ASIC and FCA licensed Retail FX broker AETOS Capital Group have provided their daily commentary on traditional markets for May 9, 2019. EUR/USD The EUR was also 0.01% lower overnight, last at $1.119 as the USD remained flat throughout Wednesday as FX traders held off from making big moves until definitive news is released on the…
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FX liquidity provider and prime of prime brokerage CFH Clearing, part of the TradeTech Group financial unit of Playtech PLC (LON:PTEC), announced that it has extended its multi-asset liquidity offering with the launch of five new base metals: Aluminium (XAL), Copper (XCU), Nickel (XNI), Lead (XPB) and Zinc (XZN) can be traded against USD. CFH…
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Global FX and investment company CFI Financial Group has just announced that it has expanded its offices to Mauritius with Credit Financier Invest (Mauritius) Limited. CFI has been keeping it busy for the past two years, opening a licensed Dubai DIFC forex brokerage operation. The company received Jordan Securities Commission license, set a new Amman…
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The analyst community has become very cautiously optimistic of late, refraining from grandiose projections or near-term certainty over the perturbations of Bitcoin or any of its altcoin brethren for that matter. The alleged scandal with the management of Tether and Bitfinex was a bolt from the unknown, an event that was totally unpredictable, and as…
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