A study amid members of Russia's Centre for Regulation in OTC Financial Instruments and Technologies (CRFIN) has shown that most Russian Forex traders generate profit/loss of up to $100. The findings show that 60%-70% of clients of the Forex brokers that are members of CRFIN barely see any change in their account balance – that…
Read moreMulti-asset investment and trading services provider Saxo Bank keeps enhancing its innovative trading platform SaxoTraderGO, with the latest improvements concerning better navigation and organization of the trading environment. Let's examine the novelties: Sorting on columns Traders can now sort by most columns in the Watchlist, Positions List and Orders List by clicking on the column header.…
Read moreThe Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), owned by CBOE Holdings, Inc (NASDAQ:CBOE), today announces that it has launched a new website, CBOE Livevol Data Shop (datashop.cboe.com), offering clients a comprehensive suite of uniquely customizable market data sets. The new CBOE Livevol Data Shop provides users with access to a set of market intelligence for options,…
Read moreAdvisory and professional services firm Seabury Group announced today that its recently launched Seabury Global Markets (SGM) entity has made an initial investment and entered into a multi-year, strategic partnership with FX ECN Spotex. The new partnership follows the January 2016 announcement of a Joint Product Offering, in which the Seabury Financial Solutions LLC (aka FXone)…
Read moreCME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has just announced its financial and operating metrics for the first three months of 2016, with net income and revenues staging a rise in annual terms, on the back of robust trading volumes. Net income for the three months to March 31, 2016 amounted to $367.8 million, up 11.3% from the…
Read moreWhile the Bank of Russia is still exploring the pros and cons of blockchain, the distributed ledger technologies have won support from the National Settlement Depository (NSD), part of the Moscow Exchange group of companies. NSD announces today that it has successfully finished developing and testing an e-proxy voting system running on a distributed ledger (blockchain…
Read moreBitcoin technology and payment processing company BitPay has announced a new partnership with a gaming giant. On Wednesday, the company announced a payment integration with software and gaming expert Valve which will bring bitcoin payments to Steam gamers. Founded in 1996, Valve's Steam platform is used by over 89 million gamers. Steam reaches 237 countries,…
Read moreJava runtime solutions expert Azul Systems and Pontus Networks have launched an Azul Zing-based edition of PontusVision Thread Manager (PVTM), which reduces capital and operational IT infrastructure expenditure by enhancing the way software threads run on specific CPU cores. Pontus’ PVTM aims to help financial institutions reduce the need for weeks of performance analysis by…
Read moreBitcoin trading platform BitQuick, which fell victim to a cyber attack more than a month ago, has missed the deadline to resume operations and remains down. The BitQuick team provided another update on system status on Wednesday, saying the company is taking care of internal issues, on top of solving matters regarding platform security. BitQuick’s…
Read moreDaiwa Securities Group Inc (TYO:8601) today posted a notice regarding an increase in its stake in Saigon Securities Inc, one of the largest securities firms in Vietnam. As of April 27, 2016, Daiwa hiked its holding in Saigon Securities to 74,606,601 shares (no less than 15% of its outstanding shares). Daiwa sealed a Capital and…
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