International derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has just published its volumes metrics for March and the first quarter of 2016, with Forex metrics failing to impress. CME Group reported FX average daily volume (ADV) of 912,000 contracts in March 2016, a result which is down 4.4% from the levels seen in February 2016. The…
Read moreSpain's securities commission CNMV today updated its list of public warnings, adding Forex firm BelforFX. BelforFX claims it has several addresses: in Bulgaria, in the Seychelles and in Anguilla. The company is operating via www.belforfx.com, with the Spanish regulator mentioning one more website in the warning – www.isocialfx.com. The latter belongs to a social trading…
Read moreForex technology company Match-Trade Technologies LLC, headquartered in Irvine, California, today announces a key step in its MENA region expansion via a launch of its services in the UAE. Match-Trade UAE office will be located in Abu Dhabi Flower House, Hamdan Bin Mohammed Street. Ali Asghar Busheri will be at the helm of the new…
Read moreInternational derivatives marketplace CME Group Inc (NASDAQ:CME) has just announced the appointment of Paul Houston as Executive Director, Global Head of FX. Mr Houston, who joins CME Group from Deutsche Bank in London, will be reporting to Sean Tully, Senior Managing Director, Financial and OTC Products, CME Group. In his new role, Mr Houston will…
Read moreSaxo Payments, a subsidiary that Saxo Bank established in 2013, today made available a white paper, entitled “Cross Border B2B Payments – Today’s landscape; Tomorrow’s opportunity”. The document states that 63% of payments-related businesses are dissatisfied with the speed of cross border payments, and only 38% believe they get a competitive FX rate. The paper is…
Read moreThere is no happy piece of news for ex-clients of New Zealand Forex broker LQD Markets Limited, which was placed into liquidation shortly after Liquid Markets UK halted its operations following the steep Swiss franc spike on January 15, 2015. The joint liquidators of the New Zealand broker have just published their six-month report – for…
Read moreProvider of software and consulting services First Derivatives plc (LON:FDP) has just published an update regarding its financial performance, saying it continued to see strong trading in the second half of its financial year to February 29, 2016. As a result the Board of the company now anticipates the financial performance for the full year…
Read moreDMM FX Australia today announces that ChartIQ WebTrader has been made available to all its clients from 9:00am (AEDT), April 2, 2016 (Saturday) for free. The ChartIQ WebTrader for MT4 is a full-featured web-based trading platform that can be used in any browser. Traders can log in with their existing credentials for the MetaTrader 4…
Read moreJapanese Forex broker FX Trade Financial Co., Ltd. (FXTF) is about to beef up its menu of trading instruments on the MetaTrader 4 (MT4) platform. Effective June 1, 2016, the company will be adding 10 currency pairs to the lineup, including: USD/TRY, TRY/JPY, NZD/CHF, NZD/CAD, AUD/CAD, EUR/NZD, GBP/CAD, GBP/CHF, GBP/NZD, CAD/CHF. The additions will take…
Read moreCBOE 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 published its operating metrics for March 2016. The data fits with the broader picture painted by the bulk of the industry thus far, with trading volumes down from February 2016…
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