Templum Markets names Bernard Van der Lande Chief Issuance Officer LeapRate

February 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Templum Markets names Bernard Van der Lande Chief Issuance Officer

Templum Markets, LLC, a registered Broker Dealer and Alternative Trading System (ATS) has announced that has added Bernard Van der Lande to its team as Chief Issuance Officer (CIO). Vince Molinari, CEO of Templum Markets said of Mr. Van der Lande: Bernard’s extensive experience with traditional, cross-border and digitized capital formation strategies, his experience transacting…

FXCM Group expands CFD offering, adds Ripple and Bitcoin Cash

February 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

FXCM Group adds Trading Central's analysis to HTML 5 Web Platform

Retail forex broker FXCM Group, LLC has announced that it has updated its HTML 5 Web Platform, Trading Station Web 2.0 by integrating Trading Central research. Trading Central’s analysis can now be found within FXCM’s charts. FXCM has also introduced a new widget, which enables traders to discover all the signals found for a particular…

February 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Australian Government paper puts unique positive spin on crypto ICOs

Amidst all of the negative press of late related to crypto Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), the Australian Government’s Treasury department has recently released an issues paper that draws attention to the many advantages and opportunities that ICOs can bring to businesses and to the Australian economy as a whole. The 27-page paper does not ignore…

February 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Ampleforth adds British historian Niall Ferguson to Advisory Board

Ampleforth (previously known as Fragments), a decentralized store of value protocol, announced today that historian, author, and financial expert Niall Ferguson will be joining its advisory board. Niall Ferguson is the author of fifteen books and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, as well as the Center of European Studies at Harvard, where…

February 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Deutsche Bank moves Global Collateral Management to CloudMargin Platform

German financial services giant Deutsche Bank AG (FRA:DBK) has announced that it is now working with CloudMargin to integrate the CloudMargin platform into its Collateral infrastructure. Joseph Macdonald, Global Head of Collateral Optimisation Trading for Deutsche Bank, said: Moving our collateral and margin management on to an online platform means that we and our clients will…

February 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

CLS Group average daily traded volume up 15% MoM in January

CLS Group, the market infrastructure provider of risk mitigation services to the global FX market, has published its operating metrics for the month of January 2019. The average daily traded volume submitted to CLS was US$1.78 trillion, up 14.7% from US$1.56 trillion in December 2018. Average daily traded volume submitted to CLS by…

February 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Euronext FastMatch average daily volume up 5% MoM in January

Euronext, the pan-European exchange in the Eurozone, has announced trading volumes for January 2019. Apart from FastMatch ADV monthly rise, a drop in the total volumes can be seen in the first month of the year. Just a few days ago, after revealing its determination to acquire Oslo Børs VPS, the exchange announced the successful migration of the…

China to carry out the initial real-world trial of its central bank digital currency

February 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Will Chinese New Year celebrations put a dent in crypto trading volumes?

“Gong hei fat choy” or “Gong xi fa tsai”, if you prefer Mandarin to Cantonese, are the preferred ways to wish “Happy New Year” for most of the Chinese population on the planet. While these words actually wish for prosperity in the year to come, this period of the year is usually accompanied by a…

New Broadridge portal automates and transforms the MBS Trade Assignment Process

February 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Attendees at Paris Fintech Forum lose crypto fever and focus on banking

Paris in the middle of winter can be brutal, but one year ago, attendees at the Paris Fintech Forum were hot with crypto fever. When one of Europe’s biggest annual gatherings of its kind convened this year in the City of Light, over 3,000 entrepreneurs, investors, bankers, and regulators braved the cold once again, but…

February 08, 2019 BY Valentina Kirilova

Venezuela in financial and political turmoil, but approves crypto legislation

Desperate people are known to do desperate things, but is that maxim also true for countries? Venezuela, a failing socialist state, has two competing presidents at the moment and an inflation rate of 1.7 million percent. Yes, that is correct. It is not a typo. Due to inflation and a host of other reasons, the…