Maria Nikolova
LeapRate Analyst
April 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Omega Securities to build matching engine at Equinix's Toronto Campus

International interconnection and data center company Equinix Inc (NASDAQ:EQIX) today announces that Omega Securities Inc. will build its matching engine in Equinix's recently opened Toronto International Business Exchange (IBX) data center, TR2. Through the new matching engine, Omega, operating providers of financial services to investors and traders Omega ATS and Lynx ATS, will offer its…

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April 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

IG Group announces launch of its London Mayoral Election Barometer

Online trading services provider IG Group Holdings plc (LON:IGG) is launching the IG London Mayoral Election Barometer, an indicator of what financial traders expect will happen in the London Mayoral Election on May 5, 2016. The data currently shows IG clients are overwhelmingly forecasting Sadiq Khan will become the next London Mayor, with an 88%…

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April 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

FxPro presents the latest version of its homepage

Retail Forex and CFD broker FxPro today unveiled the latest version of its homepage. The redesign reflects suggestions from FxPro's clients and now the layout is simplified in order to make it more attractive and easy to navigate for newcomers. Also, the company now provides some useful information for the five most popular symbols from each…

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April 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Seabury FXone partners with Beeks Financial Cloud

Customers of Seabury FXone can now access Equinix’s New York (NY4) and Tokyo (TY3) data centers via Beeks. This has been made possible via a partnership between financial cloud infrastructure provider Beeks Financial Cloud and provider of FX liquidity management solutions Seabury FXone, a subsidiary of Seabury Group. Seabury FXone customers can now benefit from…

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April 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

KCG sees market making volumes drop 16.7% MoM in March 2016

KCG Holdings, Inc. Class A (NYSE:KCG) has earlier today published its operating metrics for March 2016, with the month showing continued decline in market making volumes for the company. In Market Making, KCG averaged $26.0 billion dollar volume traded, 5.1 billion shares traded, and 3.7 million trades per day in U.S. Equities. The result is…

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April 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

France's Financial Ombudsman receives 228 claims related to FX, binary options brokers in 2015

Marielle Cohen-Branche, the AMF Ombudsman, today published the annual report for 2015, raising concerns about the rising number of claims regarding the activities of Forex/binary options companies. The bulk of complaints, the Ombudsman noted, relates to firms regulated in Cyprus. Each year, the number of cases related to FX/binary options that the Ombudsman receives continues…

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April 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

ICAP announces acquisition of data analytics platform provider ENSO

Markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services ICAP plc (LON:IAP) announces today that it has acquired provider of a data analytics platform for hedge funds and prime brokers ENSO Financial Analytics (ENSO). The acquisition has been led by ICAP's FinTech investment incubator Euclid Opportunities, which. made its first investment in…

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April 14, 2016 BY Maria Nikolova

Austria's FMA warns against investment firm Daikyo Brokerage

Austria's Financial Market Authority (FMA) on Wednesday issued a public warning regarding investment company Daikyo Brokerage Limited. The company, operating via www.daikyo-brokerage-limited.com, offers a variety of investment services, including trading in stocks and various derivatives. The “Contacts” section of Daikyo's website says the broker is based in Japan. The Austrian regulator notes that Daikyo Brokerage…

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