Tokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has just released its trading volumes report for the month of January 2019. Highlights include: Interest Rate Futures contracts The trading volume of Three-month Euroyen futures was 117,834 ( - 10.7% MoM / + 21.5% YoY ) and its average daily volume was 6,202. 項目 January 2019 Trading Volume Daily…
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LMAX Exchange Group has announced that it has added two industry veterans to its Asia Pacific business as part of its expansion plans in the region. Jason Huang, who has over 18 years’ experience in the FX industry, has joined as Head of Sales for Asia Pacific, based in the LMAX Exchange Hong Kong office. Prior to…
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Maltese-based Blockchain Advisory (BCA) has just announced a strategic alliance and collaboration with Blockpass IDN. The two companies' aim is to create a reg-tech focussed compliant ecosystem within blockchain, and bring together two established businesses already at the forefront of legal compliance. Blockpass has announced a number of key collaborations recently, including the ones with…
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UK online trading leader IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) has just announced the launch of IG US, its US-based subsidiary offering foreign exchange (forex) services. At IG we pride ourselves on championing the client, I am excited to bring that same focus to serve the United States market,” said June Felix, IG Group CEO. “We see this…
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Credit Bank of Moscow has just announced that it has launched a virtual pooling service for legal entities. The new service will allow clients to combine account balances of pool participants (various legal entities, a holding structure or a company with a branch network) to accrue interests on balances without physical cash flow. The total…
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Busy Friday for the UK regulator FCA, as it has just released another announcement that it has agreed Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) with ESMA and EU regulators. The FCA has explained earlier today how it would use the temporary transitional power in an UK leaves the European Union without a withdrawal agreement scenario. The MoUs cover cooperation…
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oneZero Financial Systems has announced that it has teamed up with FCA regulated institutional FX and CFDs broker Global Market Index (GMI UK). GMI UK joins oneZero’s EcoSystem, a distribution channel of multi-asset class liquidity for the largest global network of brokers, prime brokers and hedge funds, to distribute FX, CFD and cryptocurrency liquidity to…
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued an announcement earlier today how it would use the temporary transitional power in an UK leaves the European Union without a withdrawal agreement scenario. Nausicaa Delfas, Executive Director of International at the Financial Conduct Authority said: The temporary transitional power is an important part of our contingency…
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Sanostro, a platform for trading signal intelligence sourced from systematic managers, has just announced that it has joined forces with institutional algorithmic trading software provider AlgoTrader. AlgoTrader provides a comprehensive platform for developing, testing and running quant trading strategies, and supports all asset classes including cryptocurrencies. Last year, Cryptonomics Capital Ltd., a crypto-valley based AI crypto quant…
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What a difference a few weeks can make in the Bitcoin investment community. Back on the 3rd of January, an exalted technical indicator was “suggesting Bitcoin is in its longest buying streak in six months.” Digital diehards were rejoicing. Bitcoin prices soon pierced $4,000, a level that had been described as a “titanium resistance level”…
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