CBOE Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ:CBOE), the holding company for Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), C2 Options Exchange (C2), CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), and other subsidiaries, has just published its operating metrics for 2015. The volumes for options and futures contracts registered a drop from levels seen in 2014, although December 2015 was stronger for trading than…
Read moreInteractive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:IBKR), a major provider of online trading services in the United States, has just published its electronic brokerage metrics for December 2015. Continuing a trend already observed in the fall of last year, the broker saw daily average revenue trades (DARTS) decline by further 2% from levels seen in November 2015,…
Read moreSingapore Exchange Limited (SGX:S68) today announced that it marked a record in USD/CNH futures trading in December 2015. The Exchange said that USD/CNH futures trading volume rose more than 50% month-on-month to a record 51,702 contracts traded (approximately US$5.1 billion in notional value traded) last month. In annual terms, the rise is even more pronounced,…
Read moreThe Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) has announced that its Board of Governors has appointed Aldo Giordano as Director of the regulator's Resolution Unit. The appointment came into effect on January 1, 2016. Mr Giordano first joined the MFSA in 2002 as Deputy Director within the Banking Supervision Unit which encompassed both licensing and policy…
Read moreTokyo Financial Exchange (TFX) has just posted its operating metrics for December 2015, with Forex volumes recovering from November lows, although they were still weaker than a year earlier. TFX saw Click 365 total trading volumes, that is, the volume of Exchange FX Margin contracts, amount to 3,523,536 in December 2015, a result which is…
Read moreJapanese Forex broker Monex Inc, a subsidiary of Monex Group, Inc. (TYO:8698), today announced that it has appointed Nana Otsuki as executive director and chief analyst, effective from January 1, 2016. Ms Otsuki was ranked second among bank analysts in Japan by Nikkei Veritas in 2015. She joins Monex from Merrill Lynch Japan Securities Co.…
Read moreProvider of FX software and analytical solutions FX Blue is starting the new year by beefing up the analytical and charting functionalities available to clients. The company announced on Saturday that it has introduced a new type of dynamic charts. The new charts show the range of performance (banked profit) within each week or month.…
Read moreRetail Forex and CFD broker Plus500 Ltd (LON:PLUS) has just published a list of its 10 most traded contracts for difference (CFDs) for 2015. The ranking (which you can see on the picture above) features several instruments which one would expect to see. Such examples are Oil, that is, Light Sweet Crude Oil, as well…
Read morePhillip Capital Inc., a Chicago-based firm, which is part of the Singapore-based PhillipCapital Group, on Wednesday announced that it has become a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) member. As a result, Phillip Capital has expanded its financial services offering beyond futures and Forex to include self-clearing corporate equity and debt securities. The company will settle…
Read moreThe People's Bank of China (PBOC) has issued suspension notices to at least three foreign banks regarding their Forex businesses, in a move underlining the stringent controls of the financial sector in China. According to a Reuters report, citing anonymous sources with knowledge of the matter, China's central bank has suspended the banks from conducting…
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